· Private foundation
The Walter Reade Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WILSHIRE BOULEVARD TEMPLE | $5,700 |
| FOOD EDUCATION FUND | $5,500 |
| JFLA JEWISH FREE LOAN ASSOCIATES | $5,000 |
| CITY HARVEST | $5,000 |
| GIFFORD'S LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE | $5,000 |
| LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ARDEA ARTS | $2,500 |
| BRENTWOOD SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| BARNARD COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM | $2,000 |
| CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS | $1,500 |
| THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM | $1,200 |
| URBAN ASSOC OF FORESTRY & FIRE PROF AKA FORESTRY & FIRE RECRUITMENT PROGRAM | $1,000 |
| 805UNDOCUFUND | $1,000 |
| ANTI-RECIDIVISION COALITION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +37% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 16 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
BARNARD COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $27k · revenue +16%- BSBRENTWOOD SCHOOL6× · 2018–2025 · $20k · revenue +43%
- FEFOOD EDUCATION FUND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $18k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- CTCAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAMone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue +9%
- CFCOMMUNITY FUNDS INCone grant, 2020 · $2k
- NPNJ PANDEMIC RELIEF FUND (THROUGH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY)one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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The james beard foundation believes in a vibrant, equitable, and sustainable independent restaurant industry that stands as a cornerstone of american culture, community, and economy - and drives towards a better food system. the james…
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
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…
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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…
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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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Expanded Schools Inc and the most unlike its peers is Everwalk. 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 29 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 90 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 BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BRENTWOOD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FOOD EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF LOS ANGELES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds GIFFORDS LAW CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds LOS ANGELES FIRE DEPARTMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE BROOKLYN INSTITUTE OF ARTS AND SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds SOLEBURY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIGURE SKATING IN HARLEM INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORDIA CHAMBER PLAYERS ↗
- Who funds PHASE ONE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S NATION ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds ARDEA ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CAREERS THROUGH CULINARY ARTS PROGRAM DBA CULINARY CAREERS PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LEE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S BRAIN TUMOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JON BON JOVI SOUL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOB WOODRUFF FAMILY FOUNDATION 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Tides Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Express Foundation · California Community Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Walter Reade Foundation Inc 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.
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Count Basie Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Classroom Champions Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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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