· Private foundation
The Sye Fund
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 $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $205k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAD FOUNDATION INC | $149,264 |
| MAD FOUNDATION INC | $56,088 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PENNSYLVANIA INC | $10,088 |
| 826DC INC | $10,088 |
| NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE ALUMNI | $10,088 |
| OUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES | $10,088 |
| ZERO FOODPRINT | $8,088 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $5,088 |
| CORNING DAY PROGRAMS INC CORNING | $5,088 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 92% of your 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.
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 +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- TMTHE MAD FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $907k · revenue +53% · 31% of their budget
- 8I826DC INC5× · 2021–2025 · $45k · revenue +17%
- ZFZERO FOODPRINT6× · 2017–2025 · $35k · revenue ×51
Funded once
- HMHACKENSACK MERIDIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $15k
- TJTHE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +26%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
Accelerate the transformation to a healthy, sustainable and equitable food system.
We empower food service programs and school districts to make food delicious, nourishing, and responsible through our evidence-based certification program. We provide education and support that inspires students, schools, and communities…
New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…
Through philanthropy, empower current and future food and nutrition practitioners to optimize global health.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.
We provide exemplary interdisciplinary programs for a community of scholar-practitioners within a distributed learning model grounded in student-driven inquiry and leading to enhanced knowledge.
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
To provide vision and leadership to advance the interest of the food industry in new jersey.
Biomade's mission is to enable domestic bioindustrial manufacturing at all scales, develop technologies to enhance u.s. bioindustrial competitiveness, de-risk investment in relevant infrastructure, and expand the biomanufacturing workforce…
To provide for education, scholarships and other charitable purposes related to the culinary profession
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Soul Fire Farm Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is The James Beard 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.
18 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. 18 of the 20 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 MAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL COLLEGE ALUMNI FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DC Greens Inc ↗
- Who funds 826DC INC ↗
- Who funds ZERO FOODPRINT ↗
- Who funds OUR BIG KITCHEN LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds THE JAMES BEARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF METROPOLITAN WASHINGTON DC INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF WESTERN PA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DAILY PENNSYLVANIAN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Civil Eats ↗
- Who funds SOUL FIRE FARM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MONMOUTH COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CORNING DAY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT AKILAH INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Sye Fund 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.
- University of Hartford — 1% 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.