· Private foundation
The Niederhoffer Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION | $44,618 |
| HARMONY PROGRAM | $35,000 |
| MCC THEATER | $25,000 |
| THE MAPLE SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $20,422 |
| STRATTON FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| SOUTHERN VT ARTS CENTER | $10,000 |
| DORSET THEATER FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| MANCHESTER LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE | $7,500 |
| JEWISH INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL VALUES | $5,118 |
| METROPOLITAN OPERA | $5,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $5,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY OPERA | $5,000 |
| MUSIC FORWARD DBA THE KNIGHT | $2,500 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN SNO DOGS INC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of your 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 +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 16 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $147k 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
- THTHE HARMONY PROGRAM INC6× · 2017–2024 · $142k · revenue +94%
- TGTRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY2× · 2017–2022 · $28k · revenue +33%
FRACTURED ATLAS INC2× · 2017–2024 · $7k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -49%
- BMBIKE MANCHESTER VT INCone grant, 2022 · $10k
PROJECT SUNSHINE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +63%
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.
Mtc's work includes producing and developing new work on and off-broadway, nurturing artists throughout their careers, and positively impacting the lives of many through innovative education programs. we are committed to equity, diversity…
To create bridges of understanding through the arts and education, believing that these are important means to bring the necessary human understanding between china and the west for peaceful world relations.
To build a structurally sound and musically vital ensemble which seeks to explore and present music of the 20th century. all schools, movements and styles from the turn of the century to the present day will be offered. it is the practical…
Cantata Profana, Inc. (www.cantataprofana.com) is a vocal and instrumental chamber ensemble that presents concerts of classical and chamber music ranging from the Baroque to modern eras with a unique narrative style. Our purpose is to…
New music theatre project is organized for the cultural purpose of developing new work that explores the traditional and innovative ways in which music and theatre play together. we focus on commissioning and co- producing new works of…
NYFOS is dedicated to creating intimate song concerts of great beauty and originality, weaving music, poetry, history and humor into unforgettable evenings of compelling theater, entertaining, educating and creating community among…
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
To commission and perform new music
The only music festival in North America dedicated to Mozart, our mission embraces both performance of highest artistic excellence and cultivation of new potential audience, including young people to assure the future appreciation of great…
Amoc's mission is to build and share a body of collaborative work.
Grounded in the belief that excellent opera making should build community and radiate beauty, Heartbeat Opera creates incisive adaptations, revelatory arrangements of classics, and interdisciplinary collaboration. We reckon with the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Battery Dance Corporatin Dba Battery D and the most unlike its peers is Middle East Media and Research Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 26 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 CITY OPERA ↗
- Who funds THE HARMONY PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds COMBAT HATE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TRANSPORT GROUP INC DBA TRANSPORT GROUP THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN CLASS COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ISRAELI NAVY SEALS INC ↗
- Who funds BIKE MANCHESTER VT INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER MUSIC FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST MEDIA AND RESEARCH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds BATTERY DANCE CORPORATIN DBA BATTERY D ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN SNO DOGS ↗
- Who funds AMERICA-ISRAEL CULTURAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ANIM ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUNSHINE INC ↗
- Who funds Teatro Nuovo 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Niederhoffer 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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