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The Taft Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k30 grants · $149k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $175k
- $50k–250k35 grants · $4.7M
- $250k+19 grants · $7.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHILDREN'S AID | $600,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY | $600,000 |
| THE ARC WESTCHESTER | $559,759 |
| NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY - SHEPARD BROAD COLLEGE OF LAW | $482,200 |
| ARC BROWARD INC | $450,000 |
| BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL | $416,661 |
| ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION | $385,000 |
| HEALTHY HUMOR INC | $379,167 |
| COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE | $361,837 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - MAILMAN CENTER FOR CHILD DEVELOPMENT | $348,600 |
| FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY - CARD | $315,608 |
| JOB PATH INC | $303,959 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI - NOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR AUTISM & RELA | $302,692 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA | $300,000 |
| WESTCHESTER INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT | $298,500 |
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 (FY20–24, $14.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 98% of those 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 +28% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
113 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +36%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC5× · 2020–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +47%
- ABARC BROWARD INC5× · 2020–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +29%
Funded once
- NSNOVA SOUTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY - DEVELOPMENT ASSESSMENT CLINICone grant, 2023 · $445k
- SFSCO FAMILY OF SERVICESone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +2%
- ANAHRC NYC NEW PROJECTS INCone grant, 2020 · $243k · revenue -33%
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.
To provide quality programs for young children with special needs.
We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
The summit center, inc. is a private, not-for-profit organization approved by new york state to provide educational, therapeutic, and support services to children and young adults with autism, speech delays and disorders, and other…
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.
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
To provide a program for children with special needs, ages three to five years by utilizing the disciplines of psychology, speech therapy, occupational therapy, and physical therapy as integral functions of the educational program.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To operate community mental health centers licensed by the nys office of mental health providing exceptional services to children, adolescents and adults in underserved culturally diverse communities of ny city.nypcc believes everyone…
Empowering people through innovative solutions, one person at a time.
The mission of nyc autism charter schools is to provide individualized, scientifically based educational services to children with autism and other pervasive development disorders.
The center for independence of the disabled, new york's goal is to ensure full integration, independence and equal opportunity for all people with disabilities by removing barriers to the social, economic, cultural and civic life of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Team Impact Inc and the most unlike its peers is De Moya Foundation. 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 33 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
121 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. 121 of the 170 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 CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR DISCOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds ARC BROWARD INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HEALTHY HUMOR INC ↗
- Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JOB PATH INC ↗
- Who funds COOKE SCHOOL AND INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds JAWONIO INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds QSAC INC ↗
- Who funds RAMAPO FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER IN MANHATTAN INC ↗
- Who funds BROWARD CHILDRENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER SERVICE BUREAU OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S DIAGNOSTIC & TREATMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HEARTSHARE HUMAN SERVICES OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds GIVING ALTERNATIVE LEARNERS UPLIFTING OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds JOE DIMAGGIO CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THEATRE DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds SNACK & FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds RISING TREETOPS AT OAKHURST ↗
- Who funds NICHOLAS CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS 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: The New York Community Trust · Jewish Communal Fund · American Express Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Mutual of America Foundation · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Open Society Institute · Td Charitable Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Ford 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 Taft 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Broward Childrens Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- ARTS4ALL Florida Inc — 1% of income from government
- Ann Storck Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Adrienne Arsht Center Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Fantasy Theatre Factory 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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