· Private foundation
The Patricia Warburg Cliff and Karl Von Frieling 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 |
|---|---|
| MORE THAN WORDS | $5,000 |
| OTHER CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS | $2,955 |
| COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS | $2,500 |
| BEACON HILL VILLAGE | $2,500 |
| CHILD MIND INSTITUTE | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| NATIONAL ALLIANCE OF MENTAL ILLNESS | $1,500 |
| CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON | $1,250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,209 |
| UNITED FARMWORKERS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| PINE STREET INN | $1,000 |
| ACLU | $1,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $709 |
| ASPCA | $700 |
| BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 81% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 15 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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
- NNNAMI National6× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +543%
LITERARY ARTS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $6k · revenue +64%
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC4× · 2020–2025 · $4k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- LALITERARY ARTS PORTLANDone grant, 2020 · $4k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- RPROSIE'S PLACE INCone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +16%
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.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Nashville public radio's mission is to be the most trusted & independent nashville voice, connecting our communities through non-partisan journalism, compelling storytelling, civil conversation and music discovery.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Building a diverse grassroots movement to address the causes of climate disruption through justice-based solutions by inspiring, training and mobilizing people to act.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Free press was created to give people a voice in the crucial decisions that shape our media. we believe that positive social change, racial justice and meaningful engagement in public life require equitable access to technology, diverse…
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
See schedule okqed serves the people of northern california with a community-supported alternative to commercial media, providing the knowledge needed to make informed decisions; convening community dialogue; bringing the arts to everyone;…
To ensure economic prosperity in the portland region by providing strong leadership, partnership, and programs that encourage business growth and vitality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Access Inc and the most unlike its peers is Outwright Productions. 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 93 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 NAMI National ↗
- Who funds LITERARY ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds PEARL DISTRICT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MORE THAN WORDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD MIND INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds ZENAZEZZA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S LUNCH PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED FARM WORKERS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds UFW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PINE STREET INN INC ↗
- Who funds PORTLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds STREET ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CELEBRITY SERIES OF BOSTON INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds ROSIE'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER 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: Meyer Memorial Trust · M J Murdock Charitable Trust · The Oregon Community Foundation · Regional Arts & Culture Council · The Collins Foundation · Marie Lamfrom Charitable Foundation Trust · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation 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 Patricia Warburg Cliff and Karl Von Frieling 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.
- Beacon Hill Village Inc — 28% of income from government
- More Than Words Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Oregon Food Bank — 21% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- Central City Concern — 10% of income from government
- Literary Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Women's Lunch Place Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Celebrity Series of Boston Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- Oregon Public Broadcasting — 1% of income from government
- Portland Jazz Festival Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place 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.