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The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney

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.

$22k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$109kEducation$28kArts & Culture$14kCivil Rights$1kPublic Benefit$350Health$200Environment$137Community Improvement$100Other$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $2k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
$500
Median grant
2
States reached
$473k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Child Aid$20,000
The Museum of Modern Art$600
The Metropolitan Mueseum of Art$600
Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation$500
Individual grant recipient$250
The Frick Collection$150
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian Design Mu$125
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $200 → 14%Leukemia Lymphoma Society: $200 → 9%The Whitney Museum: $140 → 17%BROOKLYN MUSEUM: $125 → 20%Public Citizen: $1k → 14%Child Aid: $20k → 8%Child Aid: $23k → 12%Child Aid: $19k → 8%Child Aid: $20k → 12%The Hewitt School: $7k → 17%Child Aid: $8k → 12%The Hewitt School: $7k → 17%Child Aid: $7k → 12%THE HEWITT SCHOOL: $6k → 17%Child Aid: $7k → 12%The Hewitt School: $5k → 17%CHILD AID: $5k → 12%The Hewitt School: $3k → 17%The Frick Collection: $150 → 17%The Frick Collection: $130 → 17%ASIA SOCIETY: $125 → 17%The Metropolitan Mueseum of Art: $600 → 17%The Metropolitan Mueseum of Art: $600 → 17%The Metropolitan Mueseum of Art: $600 → 17%The Metropolitan Mueseum of Art: $600 → 17%The Metropolitan Mueseum of Art: $600 → 17%The Metropolitan Mueseum of Art: $600 → 17%THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $600 → 17%Neue Gallery: $250 → 17%The Museum of Modern Art: $1k → 17%The Museum of Modern Art: $600 → 17%The Museum of Modern Art: $550 → 17%The Museum of Modern Art: $360 → 17%The Museum of Modern Art: $360 → 17%THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART: $360 → 17%The Museum of Modern Art: $200 → 17%The Museum of Modern Art: $180 → 17%Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $500 → 17%Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $500 → 17%SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $300 → 17%Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $300 → 17%Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $160 → 17%Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $160 → 17%Solomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $160 → 17%Pro Publica: $1k → 17%Museum of the City of New York: $150 → 17%Museum of the City of New York: $150 → 17%Museum of the City of New York: $150 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$151k · 12 repeat orgs$3k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$151k
$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+79%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureInternationalPublic BenefitCivil RightsEnvironmentPublic Safety & DisasterOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CA
    CHILD AID
    8× · 2017–2025 · $109k · revenue +51%
  • TH
    THE HEWITT SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2021 · $28k · revenue +20%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART
    7× · 2017–2025 · $4k · revenue +58%

Funded once

  • PC
    PUBLIC CITIZEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue +238%
  • FL
    First Look Institute Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $300 · revenue -95%
  • NATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $200 · revenue +79%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

See schedule osfmoma believes the art of our time is vital and shares it with passion and purpose, and that art and the creative process can open minds and help build a better world. for that reason, we assemble unparalleled collections,…

Arts & Culture
2
Philadelphia Museum of Art

The philadelphia museum of art - in partnership with the city, the region, and art museums around the globe - seeks to preserve, enhance, interpret, and extend the reach of its great collection in particular, and the visual arts in…

Arts & Culture
3
The National Museum of Women in the Arts

The mission of the national museum of women in the arts is to collect, conserve and elevate the achievements of women artists from all nationalities and to educate the public on their outstanding accomplishments. we strive to accomplish…

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4
Berggruen Institute
Education
5
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
6
San Diego Museum of Art

To inspire, educate and cultivate curiosity through great works of art.

Arts & Culture
7
Mint Museum of Art Inc

The mint museum welcomes all to be inspired and transformed through the power of art and creativity.

Arts & Culture
8
The Phillips Collection

The phillips collection is the oldest museum of modern and contemporary art in the u.s. in addition to presentation of works from the permanent collection and special exhibitions, the museum maintains active educational, academic,…

Arts & Culture
9
The Studio Museum in Harlem

The studio museum in harlem is a contemporary art museum that focuses on the work of artists of african descent - as well as work that has been inspired and influenced by african culture - past and present; through its exhibitions,…

Arts & Culture
10
Apex Art Curatorial Program Inc

Apex Art Curatorial Program is a resolutely noncommercial visual art exhibition space which provides curators and artists with a venue dedicated to ideas that are often too provocative or too small in scope for display elsewhere. Apex Art…

Arts & Culture
11
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
12
National September 11 Memorial and Museum At the World Trade Center

The national september 11 memorial & museum at the world trade center bears solemn witness to the terrorist attacks of september 11, 2001, and february 26, 1993. located at a site made sacred through loss, the memorial & museum remembers…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frick Collection; the most unlike its peers is Flyers Rights Education Fund. 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

21 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 21 of the 23 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHILD AID: $109,000 · InternationalCHILD AID+1 more: $125 · InternationalTHE HEWITT SCHOOL: $28,370 · OtherTHE HEWITT SCHOOL+6 more: $995 · OtherMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,200 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLI…Museum of Modern Art: $3,960 · Arts & CultureMuseum of…SOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $2,080 · Arts & CultureSOLOMON R…PRO PUBLICA INC: $1,100 · Arts & CulturePRO PUBLI…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $625 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $450 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $565 · Arts & CulturePUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $1,000 · Public BenefitPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $100 · Public BenefitNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $200 · Civil RightsBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200 · HealthTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $137 · Environment
International$109,125Other$29,365Arts & Culture$12,980Public Benefit$1,100Civil Rights$200Health$200Environment$137

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCHILD AID: $109,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetTHE HEWITT SCHOOL: $28,370 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $4,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $3,960 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSOLOMON R GUGGENHEIM FOUNDATION: $2,080 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION: $625 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Look Institute Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL IMMIGRATION LAW CENTER: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS: $137 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASIA SOCIETY: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPUBLIC CITIZEN FOUNDATION INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRANSPORTATION ALTERNATIVES INC: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL WILDLIFE FEDERATION: $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 23 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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