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Thomas F Staley 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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $195k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Good Shephard Food Bank of Maine | $26,200 |
| Global Outreach International | $20,000 |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $20,000 |
| Maine Public | $17,000 |
| Ronald McDonald House Charities | $16,500 |
| United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley | $12,000 |
| Capital Area Food Bank | $11,000 |
| One Family Inc | $10,000 |
| Prevent Child Abuse - New Jersey | $10,000 |
| Bronx Lacrosse | $10,000 |
| Center for Reproductive Rights | $10,000 |
| Project of Easton Inc | $10,000 |
| Harlem Lacrosse | $10,000 |
| The Salvation Army of the Lehigh Valley | $8,000 |
| The Locker Project | $8,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 86% 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.
93 repeat relationships — 44 still active in FY2025, 49 since wound down; 21 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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
- HLHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION9× · 2017–2025 · $77k · revenue +203%
- MIMAN IN THE MIRROR INC7× · 2017–2023 · $64k · revenue +10%
- OFONE FAMILY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $53k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- AIALL IN ALL THE TIMEone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -2%
- LVLehigh Valley Child Careone grant, 2024 · $10k
- BHBethesda Hospital Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +186%
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rivers Way Outdoor Adventure. 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 37 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) — 3% 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.
128 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. 128 of the 170 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 HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MAN IN THE MIRROR INC ↗
- Who funds ONE FAMILY INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX LACROSSE INC CO OTA ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL OUTREACH INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds Good Shepherd Food Bank ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP DUDLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHLEEN STONE ISLAND OUTWARD BOUND SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds The Lake George Association Inc ↗
- Who funds THE FUND FOR AMERICAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SERVICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ronald McDonald House Global ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds BURR & BURTON SEMINARY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES OF BURLINGTON VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP SUNSHINE AT SEBAGO LAKE INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK GREATER NEW ORLEANS AND ACADIANA ↗
- Who funds LAGOND MUSIC SCHOOL 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: United Way of the Greater Lehigh Valley · Lehigh Valley Community Foundation · Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Air Products Foundation · The Century Fund Trust · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Brown-Daub Foundation · John a and Margaret Post Foundation · William H and Patti a Lehr Foundation · Two Rivers Health & Wellness Foundation · Salvaggio 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 Thomas F Staley 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Burlington Inc — 16% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Burr & Burton Seminary — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
- One Family Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Champlain College Incorporated — 0% of income from government
- Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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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