· Private foundation
The Randolph Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k59 grants · $212k
- $10k–50k30 grants · $565k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $517k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Patient Rights Advocate Inc | $250,000 |
| Chapel & York US Foundation (Collateral Global) | $162,000 |
| Tholos Foundation (fka Americans for Tax Reform Foundation) | $105,000 |
| National Center for Public Policy Research | $100,000 |
| America First Policy Institute | $100,000 |
| Independent Women's Forum | $50,000 |
| Claremont Institute | $40,000 |
| National Review Institute | $25,000 |
| Center for American Greatness Inc | $25,000 |
| Ethics and Public Policy Center | $25,000 |
| Daily Caller News Foundation | $25,000 |
| WMTS Education Inc (Kite & Key Media) | $25,000 |
| Students for Fair Admissions | $25,000 |
| Center for Reviewing America Inc | $25,000 |
| Independent Women's Forum | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $152k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 9% of The Randolph Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +15% for the ones you funded once.
79 repeat relationships — 40 still active in FY2024, 39 since wound down; 42 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $605k 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
- TFTholos Foundation5× · 2020–2024 · $436k · revenue +49%
- IWIndependent Women's Forum3× · 2021–2024 · $425k · revenue +60%
- MIMANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC4× · 2021–2024 · $330k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- LGLET GROW INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue +38%
- TFTHE FOUNDATION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT INCone grant, 2020 · $100k · revenue -60%
- CRCAPITAL RESEARCH CENTERone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +24%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ethics and Public Policy Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Silversource 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 27 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1.0% 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.
197 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. 197 of the 271 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.
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- Who funds Independent Women's Forum ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CLAREMONT INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF STATESMANSHIP & POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY ↗
- Who funds AMERICA FIRST POLICY INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds ETHICS AND PUBLIC POLICY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LET GROW INC ↗
- Who funds Project on Fair Representation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR CONSTITUTIONAL GOVERNMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL CENTER FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL RESEARCH CENTER ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC INTEREST LEGAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE CLASSICAL ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds VMTS EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds REFORMERS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL REVIEW INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds MOVING PICTURE INSTITUTE ↗
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- Who funds AMERICAN REDISTRICTING PROJECT ↗
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: Donors Trust Inc · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · The Lynde and Harry Bradley Foundation Inc · Bradley Impact Fund Inc · Sarah Scaife Foundation Incorporated · Beth and Ravenel Curry Foundation · The Dunn Foundation · The Searle Freedom Trust · Thomas W Smith Foundation Inc · John William Pope Foundation · Triad Foundation Inc · Atlas Economic Research 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 Randolph 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.
- The Greater Bridgeport Oic Inc — 53% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Arts Empowering Life Inc — 14% of income from government
- Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company — 11% of income from government
- Round the Bend Farm Inc — 11% of income from government
- City Lights & Company — 9% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Breaktime United Inc — 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- Little Britches Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Community Supported Shelters — 0% of income from government
- Calvin Coolidge Presidential Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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