· Private foundation
The Newcomb-Hargraves 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k40 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $105k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $55,000 |
| 7 WEST 43RD STREET FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BOTANICS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| ROGER TORY PETERSON ESTUARY CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE METROPOLITAN OPERA | $10,000 |
| MUSICAL MASTERWORKS INC | $6,000 |
| CENTURY ASSOCIATION ARCHIVES FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| CITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT | $5,000 |
| YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC | $5,000 |
| FDR FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $5,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
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 +21% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 5 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- NYNew York Historical Society6× · 2020–2025 · $827k · revenue +5%
- CCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE5× · 2020–2025 · $736k · revenue +22%
- LLLYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC4× · 2020–2024 · $105k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- TNThe New Schoolone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +13%
- MSMANNES SCHOOL OF MUSICone grant, 2021 · $10k
- JLJAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $6k · revenue +842%
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.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
The mission of the national academy of design is to promote the fine arts in america through exhibition and education.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New York Landmarks Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
62 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. 62 of the 88 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 New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LYME LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds The Vienna Philharmonic Society ↗
- Who funds WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL MASTERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG CONCERT ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GILDER LEHRMAN INSTITUTE OF AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE BOTANICS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CENTURY ASSOCIATION ARCHIVES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The English Concert In America Inc co Sabal & Associates ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS UNION FOUNDATION INC OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Salt Marsh Opera Company ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK FESTIVAL OF SONG INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES LENOX HOUSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS 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: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Kitchings Family Foundation · Andrew J & Anita G Frankel Family Foundation Inc · The Jean & Louis Dreyfus Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Laboiteaux - Sharp Family Foundation · Sarah Tod Fund Dtd 121454 · The Newburgh Institute for the Arts and Ideas · The Robert Stern Family Foundation
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 Newcomb-Hargraves 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Lymes Youth Service Bureau — 23% of income from government
- Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc — 16% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Chestnut Hill Concerts Inc — 4% of income from government
- Essex Winter Series Inc — 3% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lyme Art Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 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.