· Private foundation
The Vidda Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $306k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $65k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF GS | $65,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $30,000 |
| AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY | $30,000 |
| THEATER FOR THE NEW CITY | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK | $20,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE | $20,000 |
| SCENIC HUDSON | $20,000 |
| CIANA | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD ADVOCATES | $15,000 |
| CHRISTODORA | $15,000 |
| BRIGID ALLIANCE | $15,000 |
| RAYNHAM HALL MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| CONSTITUTION MARSH-NATIONAL AUDUBON SOC | $15,000 |
| SEARCH AND CARE | $11,000 |
| NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $220k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 1 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AMAmerican Museum of Natural History5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +24%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART5× · 2021–2025 · $150k · revenue +69%
- FHFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- CUColumbia Univ. School of General Studiesone grant, 2020 · $65k
- CUColumbia Univ. Dept. of Rehab. & Regen. Medicineone grant, 2020 · $50k
- SSStone Soup Cafe Incone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +17%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The municipal art society of new york (mas) lifts up the voices of the people in the debates that shape new york's built environment and leads the way to a more livable city from sidewalk to skyline. mas envisions a future in which all new…
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…
The museum of the city of new york fosters understanding of the distinctive nature of urban life in the world's most influential metropolis. it engages visitors by celebrating, documenting, and interpreting the city's past, present, and…
The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
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.
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.
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Nyaa provides services to landlords including computerized rent registration of rent stabilized apartments with the new york state division of housing and community renewal in compliance with nys & nyc laws & regulations.
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The architectural league of new york supports critically transformative work in the allied fields that shape the built environment. as a vital, independent forum, the league stimulates thinking, debate, and action on today's (continued on…
How this is measured
31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Community Food Advocates Inc ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds Christodora Inc ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND CARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds CARTER BURDEN NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds ASCENDUS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR THE INTEGRATION & ADVANCEMENT OF NEW AMERICANS INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds THE BRIGID ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY MARBLE CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST HUNGER INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds Stone Soup Cafe Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Jewish Communal Fund · Mariposa Foundation Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Select Equity Group Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Vidda Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Vidda Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Stone Soup Cafe Inc: 26% of income from government
How this is measured
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