· Private foundation
The Staten Island Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $142k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $685k
- $50k–250k30 grants · $2.3M
- $250k+1 grant · $400k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RICHMOND UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $400,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF STATEN ISLAND INC | $200,000 |
| RESEARCH FOUNDATIONCITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK | $175,000 |
| NEW YORK EARLY CHILDHOOD PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE | $175,000 |
| ST GEORGE THEATRE RESTORATION INC | $152,500 |
| CRIMSONRISE INC | $110,000 |
| THE ARC NEW YORK | $100,000 |
| PAL | $100,000 |
| STATEN ISLAND INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES | $83,210 |
| STATEN ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $80,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF STATEN ISLAND | $76,500 |
| THE GRACE FOUNDATION OF NEW YORK | $75,000 |
| AFRICAN REFUGE INC | $70,000 |
| ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| SICM | $50,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $2.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 11% of The Staten Island 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. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
125 repeat relationships — 66 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 25 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, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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
- RMRICHMOND MEDICAL CENTER6× · 2020–2025 · $843k · revenue +25%
- RFResearch Foundation of the City University of New York3× · 2021–2025 · $380k · revenue +33%
- SHSNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC6× · 2020–2025 · $364k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- VNVISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF SIone grant, 2021 · $195k
- NENY EARLY CHILDHOOD PD INSTITUTEone grant, 2020 · $186k
WNETone grant, 2022 · $125k · revenue -22%
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 Partnership With Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Noel Pointer Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
146 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. 146 of the 248 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 RICHMOND MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds SNUG HARBOR CULTURAL CENTER AND BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds AFRICAN REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER OF SI INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK FOUNDLING ↗
- Who funds FRESHKILLSPARK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STATEN ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCD/B/A HISTORIC RICHMOND TOWN ↗
- Who funds READ ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF STATEN ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds STATEN ISLAND CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds LITERACY INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTRAL FAMILY LIFE CENTER ↗
- Who funds Staten Island Institute of Arts and Sciences dba The Staten Island Museum ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOSPITALITY INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE THEATRE RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NOBLE MARITIME COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds Illuminart Productions ↗
- Who funds THE PHILHARMONIC SYMPHONY SOCIETY OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds SEAMEN'S SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES ↗
- Who funds New York Center for Interpersonal Development Inc ↗
- Who funds Grace Foundation of New York ↗
- Who funds ON YOUR MARK INC ↗
- Who funds JOBSFIRSTNYC ↗
- Who funds LIFESTYLES FOR THE DISABLED INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK LANDMARKS CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds A VERY SPECIAL PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN HOPE INC ↗
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: Richmond County Savings Foundation · The Lois & Richard Nicotra Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · United Way of New York City · Pinkerton Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · The Roberta and Allan Weissglass Foundation · City Parks Foundation Inc · Altman 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 Staten Island 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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