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The Slater Foundation

Its FY2022 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$243k
Granted FY2022
11
Grants FY2022
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
0192% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172022.

Education$83kHealth$74kArts & Culture$56kAnimals$47kHuman Services$33kInternational$13kReligion$5kFood & Nutrition$500Other$0
02FY2022 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under $10k4 grants · $18k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $175k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$25,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$50,000
TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE$45,000
MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER RES$30,000
THUUDERMIST HEALTH CENTER$25,000
JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE$25,000
JONNEYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE$25,000
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$25,000
METROPOLITAN OPERA$5,000
FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$5,000
UNICEF$5,000
ONE TO WORLD$2,930
02The need
03

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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–22) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 59% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 14%THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSE: $500 → 12%DANA FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE: $500 → 16%FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $5k → 17%COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELL: $6k → 17%BROOKLYN FREE SCHOOL: $1k → 20%JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE: $25k → 14%JONNEYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE: $25k → 7%THUUDERMIST HEALTH CENTER: $25k → 7%BURRILLVILLE ANIMAL CONTROL: $500 → 14%KNITTED KNOCKERS SUPPORT: $1k → 12%TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $45k → 12%WGBH EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION: $50k → 16%COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELL: $5k → 17%WPY BROOKLYN FREE SCHOOL: $500 → 20%JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE: $1k → 14%JONNEYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE: $5k → 7%THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 7%TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $4k → 12%COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELL: $5k → 17%EASTER SEALS RHODE ISLAND: $1k → 7%THUBDERMIST HEALTH CENTER: $5k → 7%TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $4k → 12%COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELL: $5k → 17%JONNYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE: $1k → 7%THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER: $2k → 7%TRUSTEES OF HAMPTON COLLEGE: $2k → 12%UNICEF: $5k → 17%JONNEYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE: $1k → 7%TRUSTEES OF HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE: $1k → 12%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $5k → 17%JOHNNYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE: $1k → 7%ST GEORGES CHORAL SOCIETY: $500 → 17%METROPOLITAN OPERA: $500 → 17%ST GEORGES CHORAL SOCIETY: $100 → 17%METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $210 → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER RES: $30k → 17%ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER RES: $3k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER RES: $1k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER RES: $1k → 17%ONE TO WORLD: $3k → 17%ONE TO WORLD: $1k → 17%ONE TO WORLD: $1k → 17%ONE TO WORLD: $1k → 17%ONE TO WORLD: $1k → 17%ONE TO WORLD: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$224k · 10 repeat orgs$94k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
11

Total granted

$224k
$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-9%
+127%

Still filing today

50%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22
EducationHealthArts & CultureInternationalAnimalsYouth DevelopmentOther

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

  • HC
    HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES
    4× · 2018–2022 · $54k · revenue -20%
  • THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER
    4× · 2018–2022 · $37k · revenue +103%
  • MS
    MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER RES
    4× · 2018–2022 · $35k

Funded once

  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF HAMPTON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2017 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
  • ES
    EASTER SEALS RHODE ISLAND INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +177%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Fairleigh Dickinson University

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…

Education
4
Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute

Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…

Health
5
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
6
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
7
University of Miami

See Form 990, Part I, Line 1, Description of Organization Mission.

Education
8
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

9
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
10
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
11
The Johns Hopkins Hospital

For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…

Health
12
Albany College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences

We educate the next generation of leaders to improve the health of our society.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Rockefeller University and the most unlike its peers is Companion Animal Nutrition and Wellness Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

12 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 12 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
7/12
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER RES — $35,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER …JONNEYCAKE CENTER OF PEACE — $30,860 · OtherJONNEYCAKE CENTER OF PEACEIndividual grant recipient — $7,058 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMETROPOLITAN OPERA — $5,500 · OtherMETROPOLITAN OPERAFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH — $5,000 · OtherFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH+9 more — $8,100 · Other+9 moreHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $54,000 · EducationHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEESTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $25,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYWGBH Educational Foundation — $50,000 · Arts & CultureWGBH Educational …+1 more — $210 · Arts & CultureJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $26,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INS…COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC — $20,500 · AnimalsCOMPANION ANIMAL…THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER — $37,000 · HealthTHUNDERMIST H…+1 more — $500 · HealthONE TO WORLD INC — $7,930 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $5,000 · InternationalEASTER SEALS RHODE ISLAND INC — $1,000 · Youth Development
Other$91,518Education$79,000Arts & Culture$50,210Animals$46,500Health$37,500International$12,930Youth Development$1,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES — $54,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWGBH Educational Foundation — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER — $37,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION — $26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC — $20,500 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetONE TO WORLD INC — $7,930 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS RHODE ISLAND INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrooklyn Free School Association — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $210 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 HAMPSHIRE COLLEGE TRUSTEES
  • Who funds WGBH Educational Foundation
  • Who funds THUNDERMIST HEALTH CENTER
  • Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION
  • Who funds THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY
  • Who funds COMPANION ANIMAL NUTRITION AND WELLNESS INSTITUTE INC
  • Who funds ONE TO WORLD INC
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS RHODE ISLAND INC
  • Who funds Brooklyn Free School Association
  • Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amazonsmile 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 Slater 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 7%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc7% of income from government
  • Wgbh Educational Foundation1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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