· Private foundation
The Thomas J Edelman 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $116k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
- $250k+1 grant · $785k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $785,482 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $150,000 |
| NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN | $50,000 |
| LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $35,000 |
| COLUMBIA LAW SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,250 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE FUND OF THE HAMPTONS (ARF HAMPTONS) | $10,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $7,667 |
| THE ASPEN INSTITUTE | $5,000 |
| THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| PESTALOZZI US CHILDREN'S CHARITY INC | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC | $3,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $2,000 |
| EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $223k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 99% 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 +41% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- THTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $1.9M · revenue +88%
- WCWildlife Conservation Society8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +59%
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY5× · 2018–2022 · $300k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- TFThe Frick Collectionone grant, 2017 · $75k · revenue -22%
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INCone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue -59%
- HFHOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERYone grant, 2021 · $25k
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.
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.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
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.
The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Aspen Institute Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
47 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. 47 of the 62 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 HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VANGUARD CHARITABLE ENDOWMENT PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SARAH LAWRENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK SCHOOL OF INTERIOR DESIGN ↗
- Who funds LENOX HILL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds TEACHING MATTERS INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds PESTALOZZI US CHILDRENS CHARITY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF SOROKA MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE COMMON GOOD FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS' CLUB OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN CONFLICT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL POVERTY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE LADIES VILLAGE IMPROVEMENT SOCIETY OF EAST HAMPTON ↗
- Who funds THE GRADUATE CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds Maidstone Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE SECOND STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ELEANOR WHITMORE EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTER 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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Jewish Communal Fund · Stephanie & Lawrence Flinn Jrcharitable Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Jct Foundation · J & Ar Foundation · The Hilaria and Alec Baldwin Foundation Inc · The Philippe & Deborah Dauman Foundation · The Maryam and Hervey Seley Foundation · The Mat Charitable Foundation Inc · Mary Jane Hipp Brock Family 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 Thomas J Edelman 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% 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.