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Thomas E Harvey & Cathleen P Black 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.

$275k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$51k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$683kEducation$628kInternational$164kHuman Services$142kEmployment$113kHealth$92kCrime & Legal$39kFood & Nutrition$24kRecreation & Sports$13kOther$123k
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k20 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $95k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $151k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRINITY WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY$51,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$50,000
THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC$50,000
PROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA$35,000
CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH$25,000
THE SOCIETY OF THE FOUR ARTS$25,000
ART STUDENTS LEAGUE OF NEW YORK$10,000
PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC$6,000
THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC$5,000
NORTON MUSEUM OF ART$5,000
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH$1,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$1,000
WHITE HOUSE FELLOWS FOUNDATION$1,000
MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM$1,000
TOWN OF PALM BEACH UNITED WAY INC$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 13%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC: $1k → 10%WESTSIDE BABY: $5k → 9%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 13%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 13%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5k → 13%HOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1k → 13%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATIONAL CENTER: $3k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATIONAL CENTER: $1k → 7%BRIDGEHAMPTON CHILD CARE AND RECREATIONAL CENTER: $500 → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $25k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $5k → 14%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PALM BEACHES INC: $2k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PALM BEACHES INC: $2k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PALM BEACHES INC: $2k → 11%DRESS FOR SUCCESS PALM BEACHES INC: $1k → 11%WOMEN IN NEED: $1k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $1k → 17%WOMEN IN NEED: $1k → 17%YMCA OF GREATER NEW YORK: $10k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $1k → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $500 → 17%MOUNT SINAI HEALTH SYSTEM: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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WI
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CA
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DC
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FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 60 repeat orgs$116k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +54% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
52

Total granted

$1.5M
$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+54%
+14%

Still filing today

83%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyInternationalOther

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

  • TC
    TRINITY COLLEGE
    4× · 2020–2025 · $184k · revenue +69%
  • TP
    THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $182k · revenue +32%
  • LC
    LINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $160k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • HS
    HISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICAgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +33%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +16%
  • LH
    LIGHT HOUSE GUILD
    one grant, 2024 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York University

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.

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
4
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences

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).

Arts & Culture
5
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

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…

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8
New York Studio School

The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)

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9
The Paris Review Foundation Inc

The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

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…

Education
11
University of New Haven

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…

Education
12
Columbia College Chicago

The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Little Sisters of the Assumption Family Health Service Inc and the most unlike its peers is Artists Fellowship Inc. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%13%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr16%39%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%3%20–35yr13%43%35–55yr16%37%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/95
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,470

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.

04the grantee network

88 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. 88 of the 120 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
88/88
Grantees still filing
67/88
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $181,500 · Arts & CultureTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $160,000 · Arts & CultureLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS…CHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC — $76,000 · Arts & CultureCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH IN…The Society of the Four Arts Inc — $76,000 · Arts & CultureThe Society of the Four Arts IncThe Art Students League Of New York Inc — $66,000 · Arts & CultureThe Art Students League Of New York In…THE ARMORY ART CENTER INC — $31,000 · Arts & CultureThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc — $27,500 · Arts & Culture+14 more — $65,240 · Arts & Culture+14 moreUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $382,500 · EducationUniversity of Notre Dame du LacTRINITY COLLEGE — $183,500 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGETrinity University — $30,000 · Education+11 more — $32,450 · EducationUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $110,000 · InternationalUNITED ST…INSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — $34,500 · InternationalINSTITUTE…COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $13,000 · InternationalCOUNCIL O…International Rescue Committee INC — $6,000 · International+1 more — $100 · InternationalAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $80,000 · Human ServicesHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $31,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK — $10,000 · Human ServicesDRESS FOR SUCCESS PALM BEACHES — $5,500 · Human ServicesWESTSIDE BABY — $5,000 · Human Services+5 more — $10,500 · Human ServicesPath Forward — $110,700 · Employment+1 more — $2,250 · EmploymentPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC — $60,000 · HealthThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $15,000 · HealthTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 · HealthHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $5,000 · Health+5 more — $6,000 · HealthLIGHT HOUSE GUILD — $10,000 · OtherARTISTS FELLOWSHIP INC — $7,500 · OtherNEW HOUR FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN LI I — $39,000 · OtherNEW HOUR FO…CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $12,200 · OtherCITYMEALS-O…CITY HARVEST INC — $12,000 · OtherCITY HARVES…CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $11,000 · OtherCENTRAL PAR…THE LORD'S PLACE INC — $10,000 · Other+52 more — $97,575 · Other+52 more
Arts & Culture$683,240Education$628,450International$163,600Human Services$142,000Employment$112,950Health$91,500Other$199,275

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $382,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $183,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PALM BEACH SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $181,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLINCOLN CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC — $160,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPath Forward — $110,700 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $110,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $80,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC SOCIETY OF PALM BEACH INC — $76,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetThe Society of the Four Arts Inc — $76,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Art Students League Of New York Inc — $66,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetPROMISE FUND OF FLORIDA INC — $60,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetNEW HOUR FOR WOMEN & CHILDREN LI I — $39,000 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetINSTITUTE OF INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION INC — $34,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $31,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ARMORY ART CENTER INC — $31,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetTrinity University — $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center Inc — $27,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORTON MUSEUM OF ART INC — $20,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetKENT SCHOOL — $18,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHISPANIC SOCIETY OF AMERICA — $15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Susan G Komen Breast Cancer Foundation Inc — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS INC — $13,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS — $12,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCITY HARVEST INC — $12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF GREATER NEW YORK — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC — $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetARTISTS FELLOWSHIP INC — $7,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTown of Palm Beach United Way Inc — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOUTHAMPTON HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS PALM BEACHES — $5,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetWESTSIDE BABY — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALL STARS PROJECT INC — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR DEPRESSION RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPALM BEACH GARDENS POLICE AND FIRE RESCUE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetTHE GEORGE W BUSH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW YORK TIMES COMMUNITIES FUND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DRUG DISCOVERY FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBridgehampton Child Care and Recreational Center Inc — $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHITE HOUSE FELLOWS FOUNDATION AND ASSOCIATION — $4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED INC — $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PERLMAN MUSIC PROGRAM INC — $2,750 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection — $2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Yaffa Foundation IncJewish Communal FundThe New York Communit…The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Martin D & Jean Shafi…Ag FoundationCornelia T Bailey Cha…Silicon Valley Commun…Vanguard Charitable E…Mutual of America Fou…California Community …
Yaffa Foundation IncNY17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Yaffa Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Martin D & Jean Shafiroff Foundation · Ag Foundation · Cornelia T Bailey Charitable Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Mutual of America Foundation · California Community 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 Thomas E Harvey & Cathleen P Black 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
  • The Palm Beach Symphony Society Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Hope Community Center Inc — 0% of income from government
  • The Armory Art Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
31report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 120 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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The unnamed billions
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines