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The Turtle Pond 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 26 grants below total $791,750 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,281,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $490,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k16 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $675k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Wake Forest University | $150,000 |
| Hackensack Meridian Health Foundation | $125,000 |
| Robin Hood Foundation | $100,000 |
| Texas Children's Hospital | $100,000 |
| St. Christopher's School Foundation | $100,000 |
| Ask Childhood Cancer Foundation | $50,000 |
| Red Bank Catholic High School | $50,000 |
| Kenyon College | $40,000 |
| Parker Family Health Center | $25,000 |
| St. James's Children's Center | $10,000 |
| Kenyon College | $5,000 |
| The Branch Museum of Architecture and Design | $5,000 |
| St. Catherine's School Foundation | $5,000 |
| Cancercrusher Foundation | $5,000 |
| St. Paul's School | $5,000 |
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.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
As philadelphia's jesuit catholic university, saint joseph's provides a rigorous, student-centered education rooted in the liberal arts. we prepare students for personal excellence, professional success, and engaged citizenship. striving…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Founded by the sisters of charity of new york, the university of mount saint vincent is an academically excellent, authentically inclusive, catholic and ecumenical liberal arts university. (cont. in sch.o)
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
The William & Mary Foundation advances the university's highest aspirations by securing private support, guiding a multi-asset investment portfolio, and offering strategic leadership. In this work, we propel the university toward national…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The mission of the University is to inspire independent thinkers who become trustworthy, effective leaders that shape caring communities. The vision of the University of Lynchburg is to cultivate a world that is innovative, authentic, and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Robin Hood Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. 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 37 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 23 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 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ST CHRISTOPHER'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Texas Children's Hospital ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ASK CHILDHOOD CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KENYON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Parker Family Health Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ST JAMES'S CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE'S SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Virginia Foundation for Architecture Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CANCERCRUSHER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HEALING WATERS FLY FISHING INC ↗
- Who funds The Innerwork Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MAYMONT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SHALOM FARMSINC ↗
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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 Community Foundation Inc · Virginia Sargeant Reynolds Foundation · The Pauley Family Foundation · Robert G Cabell III and Maude Morgan Cabell Foundation · The Mary Morton Parsons Foundation · The Capa Foundation · The Mraz Charitable Trust · Massey Family Foundation · Windsor Fdn Trust Uw Quincy Cole · Wilbur Moreland Havens Charitable Foundation · The William H - John G - Emma Scott Foundation · Tesco 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.
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