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The Neel 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 |
|---|---|
| KENNEBEC VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| MEDGLOBAL | $4,000 |
| NATURES BEST FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ADOPT-A-NATIVE-ELDER | $2,700 |
| BRIARCLIFF CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| FALCON RIDGE EQUINE RESCUE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| IRC INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE | $2,000 |
| TOMOKA CHRISTIAN CHURCH | $2,000 |
| ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN | $2,000 |
| COMPASSION INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| MEDSHARE | $2,000 |
| BEADS FOR EDUCATION | $1,750 |
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 (FY17–25, $33k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 71% 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
204 repeat relationships — 105 still active in FY2025, 99 since wound down; 17 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- BFBEADS FOR EDUCATION INC6× · 2018–2025 · $25k · revenue +2%
Compassion International Incorporated8× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +16%- LHLOUDOUN HUNGER RELIEF INC6× · 2018–2025 · $14k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- KCKENNEBEC COMM COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $6k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $4k
- AAAAUW ASHEVILLE AND THE GEM FUNDone grant, 2023 · $4k
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To sustain, restore, and enhance the nation's fish, wildlife, plants, and habitats.
Connect conservationists and supporters, deploy resources to the field, provide conservationists with tools and support they need to succeed.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
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 act to conserve threatened species and ecosystems worldwide, choosing solutions that are sustainable, based on sound science and take into account human needs.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To bring animals out of crisis and strengthen the bond between people and animals through emergency sheltering, disaster relief services, financial assistance and education. redrover accomplishes its mission by engaging volunteers and…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Nacwa is the national voice of public clean water utilities, shaping water policy, convening a vibrant peer network, and empowering water leaders.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee and the most unlike its peers is Forall Theater. 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 32 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
168 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 168 of the 350 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.
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- Who funds SAMBURU YOUTH EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds POPLAR SPRING ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds PENDLETON HISTORIC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FALCONRIDGE EQUINE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WATER IS LIFE KENYA ↗
- Who funds REDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds RSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Adopt-A-Native Elder ↗
- Who funds ALL HANDS AND HEARTS SMART RESPONSE INC ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION TO BENEFIT CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds FRONTIER NURSING UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK MILITARY ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF WOODTURNERS ↗
- Who funds HIGH PEAKS ALLIANCE ↗
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: Van Metre Companies Foundation Inc · Davis Conservation Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Community Foundation of Western North Carolina Inc · The Community Foundation for Northern Virginia Inc · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier Counties · The Bank of Clarke County Foundation · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable
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 Neel 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Epilepsy Foundation of America — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Friends of Dog Mountain Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Whale and Dolphin Conservationinc — 3% of income from government
- National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Halifax Humane Society Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.
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