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Twin Chimney Inc

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.

$80k
Granted FY2019
8
Grants FY2019
3
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of Twin Chimney Inc’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2019 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2019

  • Under $10k4 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JERSEYCAN$20,000
MIT$20,000
DANA FARBER INSTITUTE$10,000
MIT$10,000
PRINCETON FIRST AID & RESCUE SQ$5,000
PRINCETON PUBLIC LIBRARY$5,000
CENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS$5,000
PRINCETON MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION$5,000
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 (FY17–18, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%Selfhelp Community Services Inc: $250 → 17%PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $500 → 11%PRINCETON SENIOR RESOURCE CENTER: $250 → 11%Small Friends on Nantucket: $250 → 6%SMALL FRIENDS ON NANTUCKET INC: $250 → 6%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

ME
MN
NY
MA
OR
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
VA
SC
DC
GA
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$405k · 57 repeat orgs$353k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +64% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2019, 51 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2019 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
69

Total granted

$405k
$348k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+64%
+32%

Still filing today

72%
48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2019, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentHousing & ShelterPhilanthropyOther

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

  • ISLES INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $50k · revenue +167%
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
    2× · 2017–2019 · $20k · revenue +132%
  • 'T
    'SCONSET TRUST INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $12k · revenue ×18

Funded once

  • SB
    SIASCONSET BEACH PRESERVATION FUND INC
    one grant, 2018 · $150k · revenue -42%
  • MT
    McCarter Theatre
    one grant, 2017 · $55k
  • NA
    NANTUCKET ATHENEUM INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $27k · revenue +78%

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
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
2
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
4
Public Media Nj Inc

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

Arts & Culture
5
Manhattanville University

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

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

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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7
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
8
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
9
Atlantic University Inc

Provide post-secondary education of excellence.

Education
10
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
12
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Jersey Seeds Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCancer Support OrganizationsClassical Music EnsemblesVolunteer Fire DepartmentsEarly Childhood Education C…Animal Rescue and AdoptionEnvironmental Advocacy Orga…United Way FederationsAffordable Housing Developm…Senior Support ServicesDomestic Violence Crisis Se…Developmental Disabilities …Substance Abuse TreatmentUrban Agriculture & Food Ac…Lgbtq+ Community CentersYouth Development CentersPublic School District Foun…Independent K-8 SchoolsGovernment Accountability R…Christian Missionary Organi…Education Equity LeadershipHospice Care ServicesCommunity Health CentersCommunity Arts OrganizationsLand Conservation Organizat…Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Public Library SupportCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 42 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%34%35–55yr16%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%3%10–20yr16%38%20–35yr13%37%35–55yr16%23%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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%0/82
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,483

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

81 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. 81 of the 131 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)
21
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/81
Grantees still filing
62/81
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

PINGRY SCHOOL — $70,000 · OtherPINGRY SCHOOLMIT — $60,000 · OtherMITJERSEYCAN — $60,000 · OtherJERSEYCANMcCarter Theatre — $55,000 · OtherMcCarter TheatreNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC — $27,000 · OtherNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INCPrinceton Public Library — $15,000 · Other+73 more — $140,250 · Other+73 moreSIASCONSET BEACH PRESERVATION FUND INC — $150,000 · EnvironmentSIASCONSET BEACH PRESE…'SCONSET TRUST INC — $12,000 · Environment'SCONSET TRUST INC+5 more — $6,600 · EnvironmentMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $32,500 · EducationThe Trustees of Princeton University — $10,250 · EducationBRONX LETTERS FOUNDATION — $5,000 · EducationEXCELLENT EDUCATION FOR EVERYONE INC — $5,000 · Education+12 more — $12,355 · EducationISLES INC — $50,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more — $1,250 · Housing & ShelterPrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc — $39,500 · PhilanthropyCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc — $6,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $4,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $1,250 · PhilanthropyDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $20,000 · HealthPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 · HealthPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM HOLDING INC — $5,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,500 · HealthARGUS COMMUNITY INC — $1,500 · HealthNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC — $1,500 · HealthTHE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION — $1,500 · HealthAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,500 · Health+2 more — $1,000 · HealthNANTUCKET COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHISTORIC MORVEN INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureYOUNG AUDIENCES OF NEW JERSEY INC — $5,250 · Arts & CultureTHE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM — $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Arts & CultureGEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC — $1,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more — $2,610 · Arts & Culture
Other$427,250Environment$168,600Education$65,105Housing & Shelter$51,250Philanthropy$50,750Health$38,500Arts & Culture$36,360

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSIASCONSET BEACH PRESERVATION FUND INC — $150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetISLES INC — $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPrinceton Area Community Foundation Inc — $39,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $32,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET ATHENEUM INC — $27,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget'SCONSET TRUST INC — $12,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Trustees of Princeton University — $10,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET COMMUNITY MUSIC CENTER — $10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SUPPORTIVE SCHOOLS INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCommunity Foundation for Nantucket Inc — $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPRINCETON HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXCELLENT EDUCATION FOR EVERYONE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetWoodwell Climate Research Center Inc — $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET CONSERVATION FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR EDUCATION REFORM — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATRE WORKSHOP OF NANTUCKET INC — $2,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Petey Greene Program Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET DREAMLAND FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellesley College — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKENT PLACE SCHOOL — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARGUS COMMUNITY INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGEORGE STREET PLAYHOUSEINC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND LIFE FLIGHT INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN TINNITUS ASSOCIATION — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKHAN ACADEMY INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER CORPORATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWHYY INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY - LOUIS BAMBERGER & MRS FELIX FULD FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrinceton Future Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetPLANSMART NJ INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PARTNERSHIP FOR AFTER SCHOOL EDUCATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE SCHOOLS OF WASHINGTON DC INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONEY ISLAND PREP BUILDERS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWESTMINSTER THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCETON CHILD DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC — $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER MERCER COUNTY — $750 over 2y, 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.

Bristol-Myers Squibb …Princeton Area Commun…Community Foundation …The Robert Wood Johns…The Macmillan Family …Nantucket Golf Club F…Charina Foundation In…Pseg Foundation IncCurtis W McGraw Found…The George & Marie Ch…The Hajim Family Foun…The Trustees of Princ…
Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation IncNJ36.9× affinity17 shared granteesties to 7 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Princeton Area Community Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · The Macmillan Family Foundation Inc · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · Pseg Foundation Inc · Curtis W McGraw Foundation · The George & Marie Chabot Charitable Foundation · The Hajim Family Foundation · The Trustees of Princeton University

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 Twin Chimney 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 170%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • A Safe Place Inc — 45% of income from government
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Isles Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Princeton Healthcare System Holding Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc — 11% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
  • Passage Theatre Company Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc — 10% of income from government
  • D&r Greenway Land Trust Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in — 9% of income from government
  • Center for Supportive Schools Inc — 9% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater Mercer County — 8% of income from government
  • Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation — 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • New England Life Flight Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Princeton Nursery School — 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Dreamland Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Nantucket Community Music Center — 1% of income from government
  • Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
  • Young Audiences of New Jersey Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Artists Association of Nantucket Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
17get no government money at all
8report 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 131 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 2019, released 2019. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record but names no grant recipient in the published copy, so the figures above are from FY2019, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

Source object · view filing

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