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The Millman-Harris-Romano Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ART EFFECT | $9,336 |
| DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC | $8,500 |
| GOODFOUNDATION | $5,376 |
| NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $5,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF NY | $5,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOME OF POUGHKEEPSIE | $5,000 |
| BARDAVON 1869 OPERAHOUSE | $3,950 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $3,500 |
| DUTHESS COUNTY SPCA | $2,581 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,577 |
| STONY KILL FOUNDATION | $2,575 |
| MID-HUDSON DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $2,500 |
| REFORMED CHURCH MEDICAL CLOSET | $2,500 |
| FILM INDEPENDENT | $2,500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY21–25, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
FILM INDEPENDENT6× · 2019–2025 · $9k · revenue +90%- CHCHILDREN'S HOME OF POUGHKEEPSIE INC2× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +85%
- DCDUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA INC3× · 2021–2025 · $6k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- COCITY OF POUGHKEEPSIE BARTLETT PARKone grant, 2023 · $10k
- HPHYDE PARK LIBRARYone grant, 2024 · $5k
- LCLITERACY CONNECTIONS HUDSON VALLEY INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -4%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Protects and restores the hudson river from source to sea and safeguards drinking water supplies.
The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
The mission of the new york public library is to inspire lifelong learning, advance knowledge, and strengthen our communities.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mid-Hudson Children's Museum D/B/a Mid-Hudson Discovery Museum and the most unlike its peers is American Museum of Natural History. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 22 of the 46 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds BARDAVON 1869 OPERA HOUSE ↗
- Who funds THE POUGHKEEPSIE-HIGHLAND RAILROAD ↗
- Who funds FILM INDEPENDENT ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S HOME OF POUGHKEEPSIE INC ↗
- Who funds DUTCHESS COUNTY SPCA INC ↗
- Who funds STONY KILL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD PLUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds MID-HUDSON CHILDREN'S MUSEUM D/B/A MID-HUDSON DISCOVERY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE SAVANNAH BOOK FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LITERACY CONNECTIONS HUDSON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds MILES OF HOPE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE POUGHKEEPSIE PUBLIC LIBRARY DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS MID-HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds MEDIATION CENTER OF DUTCHESS COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MERCANTILE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Ulster Savings Charitable Foundation · JM McDonald Foundation Inc · Evelyn M Davies Charitable Trust Mark V Dennis Trustee · Ibm International Foundation · Herbert H Redl Family Foundation · James J McCann Charitable Trust · The Ascienzo Family Foundation · Price Chopper's Golub Foundation · George a Strba Charitable Trust · Jane W Nuhn Charitable Trust
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Millman-Harris-Romano Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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