· Private foundation
The Palette Fund Inc
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 $10k4 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $146k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $305k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $200,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER-CONT | $105,000 |
| PROVINCETOWN COMMONS | $35,000 |
| MIRACLE OF LOVE | $25,000 |
| ASPCA | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| VARIOUS ORG UNDER 5K | $18,763 |
| PROSPECT NEW ORLEANS | $17,500 |
| NEW ORLEANS MUSEUM | $8,000 |
| GNO FUND | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SUMMER OF SASS | $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 (FY17–19, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
54 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 6 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $288k 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
PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC4× · 2017–2022 · $447k · revenue +24%- PCPROVINCETOWN COMMONS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $417k · revenue +150%
POINT SOURCE YOUTH INC4× · 2017–2020 · $169k · revenue +818%
Funded once
- TFTHRESHOLD FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $118k · revenue +7%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100k
- TCTRUE COLORS FUND (ACYF FELLOWSHIP)one grant, 2017 · $50k
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.
To provide leadership and professional development, education and research to create workplaces free from discrimination.
Services and advocacy for gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender elders, inc. (sage) is the country's largest and oldest organization dedicated to improving the lives of lgbtq+ older adults. in partnership with our constituents and…
Brooklyn community pride center uplifts and empowers lgbtq+ brooklynites through socially conscious and culturally responsive programs, partnerships and advocacy.
To secure equal rights and protections for lgbtq utahns and their families.
Global Philanthropy Project (GPP or the Organization) is a collaboration of funders and philanthropic advisors working to expand global philanthropic support to advance the human rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex…
Outfront's mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination. in our effort to…
Outfront's mission is to create a state where lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (lgbtq) people are free to be who they are, love who they love, and live without fear of violence, harassment or discrimination. in our effort to…
The audre lorde project, inc. alp is a lesbian, gay, bisexual, two spirit, trans and gender non-conforming people of color community organizing center, focusing on the new york city area. through mobilization, education, and…
EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…
The new york city gay and lesbian anti-violence project (avp) mission is to empower lgbtq and hiv-affected communities and allies to end all forms of violence through organizing and education, and support survivors through counseling and…
National lgbtq task force action fund, founded in 1974 as the national gay and lesbian task force, inc., works to build the grassroots political power of the lgbt community to win complete equality. we do this through direct and grassroots…
Funders for lgbtq issues work to increase the scale and impact of philanthropic resources aimed at enhancing the well-being of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities, promoting equity, and advancing racial, economic and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Equality Federation Institute and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. 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 28 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
53 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. 53 of the 136 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 PANCREATIC CANCER ACTION NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds PROVINCETOWN COMMONS INC ↗
- Who funds POINT SOURCE YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds THRESHOLD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN WORD NYC INC ↗
- Who funds FINE ARTS WORK CENTER IN PROVINCETOWN INC ↗
- Who funds IM FROM DRIFTWOOD ↗
- Who funds TRUE COLORS UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CENTERLINK INC ↗
- Who funds PROVINCETOWN FILM SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds DOC SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Transgender Law Center ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOOR - A CENTER OF ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RESOURCE GENERATION INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds GLBTQ LEGAL ADVOCATES & DEFENDERS INC ↗
- Who funds POINT FOUNDATION ↗
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.
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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 Palette Fund 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- Centerlink Inc — 12% of income from government
- Provincetown Film Societyinc — 6% of income from government
- The Arts Foundation of Cape Cod — 6% of income from government
- Triangle Community Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Provincetown Commons Inc — 0% of income from government
- Glbtq Legal Advocates & Defenders 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.
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