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The Risor 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOCUS MASSACHUSETTS (FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS) | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND | $10,000 |
| ST ANDREW'S CHURCH | $7,500 |
| TURNER SYNDROME SOCIETY OF THE UNITED STATES | $5,000 |
| CONCORD ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| FOCUS NEW JERSEY (FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS) | $3,500 |
| THE FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST | $2,500 |
| VIRGINIA TECH FOUNDATION - GLOBAL FOOD SECURITY PROJECT | $2,500 |
| LUNDALE FARM | $2,500 |
| EPIPHANY SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| JAMES WILSON INSTITUTE | $2,500 |
| INSTITUTE FOR HUMANE STUDIES | $2,500 |
| SMC FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $2,500 |
| DICKINSON COLLEGE | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 4%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
35 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TPTHE PECK SCHOOL5× · 2017–2022 · $84k · revenue +17%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS INC3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +90%
- TGTHE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL4× · 2020–2023 · $34k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- SLST LUKES EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2017 · $10k
- FOF O C U S INCone grant, 2019 · $10k
- TBThe Bronx Museum of the Artsone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -3%
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.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Morristown beard school is an educational college preparatory school in grades 6 to 12 located in morristown, new jersey.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Hillsdale college is a private liberal arts college with approximately 1,500 students. founded in 1844, the college remains, in the words of its articles of association, "grateful to god for the inestimable blessings resulting from the…
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cornerstone Family Programs and the most unlike its peers is Lundale Farm 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 45 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 56 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 THE PECK SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW JERSEY CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIANS IN UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GILL ST BERNARD'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DICKINSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LUNDALE FARM INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND ↗
- Who funds CONCORD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FRENCH AND PICKERING CREEKS CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY INC ↗
- Who funds Turner Syndrome Society of the U S ↗
- Who funds EdChoice Inc ↗
- Who funds Institute for Humane Studies ↗
- Who funds WOODSON CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION ↗
- Who funds JAMES WILSON INSTITUTE FOR NATURAL RIGHTS AND THE AMERICAN FOUNDING ↗
- Who funds THE LAND CONSERVANCY OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds The Bronx Museum of the Arts ↗
- Who funds WESTON FOREST AND TRAIL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Peddie School ↗
- Who funds THE EPIPHANY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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: Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Kean Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The Fournier Family Foundation · Carverdelaney Families Foundation Inc · Fm Kirby Foundation Inc · Blauvelt Demarest Bellis Foundation Inc · Reed Family Foundation Inc · Ej Grassmann Trust · Pseg Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Investors 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 Risor 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.
- Raritan Headwaters Association — 94% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Freedom House Inc — 4% of income from government
- Life Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
- The Epiphany School 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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