· Private foundation
The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k70 grants · $314k
- $10k–50k81 grants · $1.5M
- $50k–250k125 grants · $13M
- $250k+5 grants · $1.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW ISRAEL FUND | $800,000 |
| PANORAMA GLOBAL | $250,000 |
| INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF-RELIANCE INC | $250,000 |
| SOCIAL GOOD FUND | $250,000 |
| BEND THE ARC A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE | $250,000 |
| REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO | $225,000 |
| THE CHISHOLM LEGACY PROJECT | $200,000 |
| THE SOLUTIONS PROJECT INC | $200,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR SOUTHERN EQUITY | $200,000 |
| MINNEAPOLIS FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| TIDES FOUNDATION | $200,000 |
| THE CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE | $200,000 |
| MAJORITY ACTION | $200,000 |
| INITIATIVE FOR MEDICINES ACCESS & KNOWLEDGE (I-MAK) INC | $175,000 |
| UNITED FOR RESPECT EDUCATION FUND | $175,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $5.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of The Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
335 repeat relationships — 150 still active in FY2024, 185 since wound down; 78 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.9M 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
BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE7× · 2018–2024 · $2.8M · revenue +192%
ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC6× · 2018–2023 · $2.7M · revenue +153%- COCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND6× · 2018–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +29%
Funded once
- 5C5050 CLIMATE PROJECTone grant, 2018 · $263k
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY ACTIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue +87% · 41% of their budget
- TBTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCESgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +52%
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.
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Our mission is to create a fair and inclusive economy where underserved people have quality financial choices and opportunities to improve their economic well-being. we find and help build innovative companies with the potential to reach…
Common impact's mission is to strengthen the capacity of social change organizations, enabling them to better run and scale their programs. through its partnership with companies, common impact taps into the business skills and expertise…
Bringing diverse voices together across global sectors, disciplines, and demographics so developments in ai advance positive outcomes for people and society.
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
The center for international policy is a woman-led, progressive, independent nonprofit center for research, education, and advocacy working to advance a more peaceful, just, and sustainable u.s. approach to foreign policy. through…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
To facilitate collaboration, innovation, strategic growth and cultural impact for the media arts field. We are a network of networks; we embolden creative media organization and artists and connect them with the world.
The Jews of Color Initiatives mission is to advance racial equity in the U.S. Jewish community by centering the leadership of Jews of Color and ensuring that our communities and institutions reflect the multiracial reality of the Jewish…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Policylink and the most unlike its peers is If Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
659 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. 659 of the 752 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL GOOD FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BEND THE ARC - A JEWISH PARTNERSHIP FOR JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC ↗
- Who funds COLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds AUBURN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds Solutions Project Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER ↗
- Who funds The Center for Media Justice DBA MediaJustice ↗
- Who funds JOIN FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHLANDER RESEARCH & EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAITH IN ACTION NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds KENTUCKY COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds RESTAURANT OPPORTUNITIES CENTERS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR LOCAL SELF RELIANCE ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE JUSTICE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COMMON FUTURE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds MOVEMENT STRATEGY CENTER ↗
- Who funds JOBS TO MOVE AMERICA ↗
- Who funds OPEN MARKETS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN WRITERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds Jobs with Justice Education Fund ↗
- Who funds T'RUAH ↗
- Who funds UPROSE INC ↗
- Who funds FIRELIGHT MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds JEWS FOR RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FUNDERS NETWORK ↗
- Who funds Clean Energy Group Inc ↗
- Who funds DEMOS A NETWORK FOR IDEAS AND ACTION LTD ↗
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: Surdna Foundation Inc · Freedom Together Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · The Ford Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Proteus Fund Inc · Marguerite Casey Foundation · Mertz Gilmore Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Windward Fund · Omidyar Network Fund Inc
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 Nathan Cummings Foundation Inc 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.
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Presencing Institute Inc — 28% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- African American Alliance of Cdfi CEOs — 3% of income from government
- Native Arts and Cultures Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ceres Inc — 0% of income from government
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.