· Private foundation
Thomas Rutherfoord 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k39 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $324k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $634k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Friends of the Louvre | $176,000 |
| Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach | $150,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $107,768 |
| The Society of the Four Arts | $75,000 |
| Charities Aid Foundation | $75,000 |
| The Phillips Collection | $50,000 |
| Music Associates of Aspen | $49,379 |
| Salisbury School | $25,000 |
| The National World War II Museum | $25,000 |
| The Princes Foundation America | $25,000 |
| Palm Beach Zoo and Conservation Society | $20,000 |
| Christ Church Georgetown | $20,000 |
| Hollins University | $20,000 |
| Stratford Hall | $18,231 |
| Bishop John T Walker School for Boys | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Thomas Rutherfoord Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
98 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2024, 48 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k 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
- TPTHE PHILLIPS COLLECTION8× · 2017–2024 · $706k · revenue +60%
- TPThe Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $536k · revenue +279%
- SHSTRATFORD HALL8× · 2017–2024 · $306k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- NGNATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $100k · revenue +11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100k
- TGThe Great Steward of Scotland's Dumfries House Trustone grant, 2019 · $62k
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.
Finance impacts everyone. as a socially relevant organization, the museum of american finance seeks to improve understanding of the influence of financial institutions and capital markets on the u.s. and global economies, and on…
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.
American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…
The purpose of the organization is to maintain in the city of alexandria, virginia, a suitable memorial temple to george washington, the mason, which expresses in durability and beauty, the exalted and undying esteem of the freemasons of…
The mission of the society is to advance the knowledge and understanding of architecture, design, landscape and urbanism worldwide among scholars, professionals in allied fields (including architecture, historic preservation and planning)…
The museum of the american revolution uncovers and shares compelling stories about the diverse people and complex events that sparked america's ongoing experiment in liberty, equality and self-government.
The broad mission of the ASCSA has remained constant over its distinguished history: teaching research archaeological exploration publication and dissemination of research. Founded in 1881 the ASCSA provides graduate students and scholars…
The university of virginia investment management company (uvimco) is organized to invest funds on behalf of the rector and visitors of the university of virginia (the university or uva) and university-associated organizations (uaos).
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Champion equitable and impactful museums by connecting people, fostering learning and community, and nurturing museum excellence.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mount Vernon Ladies' Association of the Union and the most unlike its peers is Richard Hampton Jenrette Foundation. 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 44 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
83 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 83 of the 166 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 CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE PHILLIPS COLLECTION ↗
- Who funds The Preservation Foundation of Palm Beach Inc ↗
- Who funds THE PRINCE OF WALES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD HALL ↗
- Who funds The Society of the Four Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds HOLLINS UNIVERSITY CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ASSOCIATES OF ASPEN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE LOUVRE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds USAGAINSTALZHEIMER'S ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WOMEN IN THE ARTS ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA STUDENT AID FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA GENTLEMEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT VERNON LADIES' ASSOCIATION OF THE UNION ↗
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds VA FOUNDATION FOR INDEPENDENT COLLEGES ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds FRENCH HERITAGE SOCIETY 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: The Principato Family Foundation Inc · Porter Family Charitable Foundation · Greater Washington Community Foundation · The Winston-Salem Foundation · Patricia E & John D Bassett III Foundation · The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund · Laura M and Peter T Grauer Foundation · Sachiko Kuno Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Maurice B Tobin Family Foundation · The Matz 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 Rutherfoord 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.
- Cox Science Center and Aquarium Inc — 6% 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.