· Private foundation
The Ralph E Ogden Foundation 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 $10k12 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $329k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $125k
- $250k+2 grants · $815k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STORM KING ART CENTER | $450,000 |
| CHESTER AGRICULTURAL CENTER INC | $365,000 |
| FAIR TIDE | $70,000 |
| GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC | $55,000 |
| BLACK BELT JUSTICE CENTER | $27,500 |
| INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS | $25,275 |
| CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| WORKER JUSTICE CENTER OF NY | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS | $20,000 |
| TIDES CENTER | $15,000 |
| BLACK FARMER FUND INC | $15,000 |
| RURAL & MIGRANT MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| NORTH STAR FUND | $15,000 |
| SAN FRANCISCO STUDY CENTER | $15,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $196k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +57% since the first grant, against +35% for the ones you funded once.
94 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 69 since wound down; 10 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- SKSTORM KING ART CENTER8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +66%
BARD COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $235k · revenue +256%- GIGRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC7× · 2018–2024 · $186k · revenue +56%
Funded once
- CFCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN PUBLIC INTEREone grant, 2017 · $40k
NEW YORK FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2022 · $35k · revenue -21%- JJPNSIone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
New york restoration project ("nyrp") believes that nature is a fundamental right of every new yorker. nyrp works collaboratively with residents in communities across the five boroughs to renovate gardens, restore parks, plant trees,…
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
The natural areas conservancy champions urban natural areas in new york city and across the nation through innovative research, partnerships, and advocacy. we increase the health and resilience of urban forests and wetlands, catalyze…
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Natural History Institute is organized to provide leadership and resources for a revitalized practice of natural history that integrates art, science, and humanities to promote the health and well-being of humans and the rest of the…
Next River is an institute for practicing the future. We cultivate the research, narratives, practices, and connections that transform our cultural landscape toward collective liberation.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
To empower frontline communities to lead nature-based solutions that advance climate justice, ecosystem restoration, and resilient livelihoods through connecting locally-led initiatives to funding, markets, and technical support.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hoops Express 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 28 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 20% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
158 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. 158 of the 211 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 STORM KING ART CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHESTER AGRICULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK ROCK FOREST CONSORTIUM INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PARTNERS CASSIE STERN MEMORIAL INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GRASSROOTS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORANGE AND SULLI ↗
- Who funds HAWTHORNE VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds NORTH STAR FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BLACK BELT JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAFE HARBORS OF THE HUDSON INC ↗
- Who funds NABU GLOBAL INC ↗
- Who funds Fair Tide ↗
- Who funds MANITOGA INC ↗
- Who funds HUDSON VALLEY COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds INNOCENCE PROJECT NEW ORLEANS ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds KITTERY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CULTURAL SURVIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND CURRENTS ↗
- Who funds RESEARCH INSTITUTE ON TURKEY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMON GROUND FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YOUNG FARMERS COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK ↗
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: Novo Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley Inc · The Dyson Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · Community Foundation of Orange and Sulli · New York State Health Fdn D/B/A New York Health Foundation · Tides Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · The Ford 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 Ralph E Ogden Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 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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