· Private foundation
The Puffin Foundation Ltd (F/K/A Puffin New Jersey Inc)
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of THE PUFFIN FOUNDATION LTD (F/K/A PUFFIN NEW JERSEY INC)’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $258k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS DBA IN THESE TIMES | $362,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $345,012 |
| TYPE MEDIA CENTERTHE NATION INSTITUTE | $335,000 |
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES INC ALBA | $245,000 |
| NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISM INC | $150,000 |
| THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC | $150,000 |
| MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK | $115,700 |
| TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY | $95,450 |
| BABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USABRICK BY BRICK PARTNERS | $75,000 |
| AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ACLU | $69,166 |
| BARN RAISING MEDIA INC | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUNDNYPIRG | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR THE STUDY OF INDEPENDENT SOCIAL IDEAS DBA DISSENT MAGAZINE | $50,000 |
| J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC | $30,000 |
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, $155k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, 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.
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 -6% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k 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
- IFInstitute for Public Affairs7× · 2018–2024 · $2.3M · revenue +21% · 38% of their budget
- AFASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC6× · 2018–2023 · $1.4M · revenue +290% · 82% of their budget
- BABABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USA INCORPORATE6× · 2018–2023 · $1.3M · revenue +34% · 61% of their budget
Funded once
- TOTOTAL OTHER GRANTSone grant, 2023 · $389k
- IFINSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIESone grant, 2021 · $48k · revenue -23%
- NENURSING EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE FOR HAITI COOPone grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -66%
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 educate journalists and the public, and foster public debate, about improving political journalism to reflect public needs and hold the powerful accountable.
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
The manhattan institute is a community of scholars, journalists, activists, and civic leaders dedicated to advancing opportunity, individual liberty, and the rule of law in america and its great cities.
IMI amplifies the reach and impact of the work produced by our partner journalists,public intellectuals and editorial teams on the leading issues of our times. The goal is to educate, inspire, and collaborate with movements and visionaries…
The Institute for New Global Politics is a California-based educational nonprofit corporation organized and operated exclusively for charitable purposes. It is an independent and nonpartisan thinktank dedicated to educating the general…
The jewish electorate institute (jei) is an independent, non-partisan 501(c)(3) organization that surveys, interprets, reports, and educates the public about the perspectives, voting behaviors, and motivations of the american jewish…
To teach and disseminate educational materials to the public.
The committee to protect journalists promotes press freedom worldwide and defends the right of journalists to report the news safely and without fear of reprisal. cpj ensures the free flow of news and commentary by taking action wherever…
International consortium of investigative journalists, inc.'s (icij) mission is to show people how the world really works through stories that rock the world; forcing positive change.
The Knight First Amendment Institute defends the freedoms of speech and the press in the digital age through strategic litigation, research, public advocacy and public education. Our aim is to promote a system of free expression that is…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Nation Fund for Independent Journalisminc and the most unlike its peers is Institute for Media Analysis Inc. 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 29 years old; the field is 18. 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 10% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 61 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 Institute for Public Affairs ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION FOR PROMOTION OF JEWISH SECULARISM INC ↗
- Who funds BABIES AND MOTHERS ALIVE USA INCORPORATE ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds TYPE MEDIA CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM LINCOLN BRIGADE ARCHIVES INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DEMOCRACY NOW PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds TEANECK CREEK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANDREW GOODMAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Center for Investigative Reporting formrly Foundation for National Progress ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATION FUND FOR INDEPENDENT JOURNALISMINC ↗
- Who funds CAMP KINDERLAND INC ↗
- Who funds BARN RAISING MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACOBIN FOUNDATION LTD ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR MEDIA ANALYSIS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF GIVAT HAVIVA ↗
- Who funds J STREET EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Youth Service America ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR TRANSFORMATIVE ACTION ↗
- Who funds INSTITUTE FOR POLICY STUDIES ↗
- Who funds NURSING EDUCATION COLLABORATIVE FOR HAITI COOP ↗
- Who funds YOU CAN VOTE ↗
- Who funds ECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT ↗
- Who funds REMEMBER THE TRIANGLE FIRE COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds ROSENBERG FUND FOR CHILDREN 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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Park Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Institute for Nonprofit News · The Miami Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Tides Foundation · Padosi Foundation · The Winky Foundation Co Wilmington Trust Co
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 Puffin Foundation Ltd (F/K/A Puffin New Jersey 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.
- Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% 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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