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Two West 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INSPIRICA INC | $5,000 |
| FULLER PROJECT FOR INTERNATIONAL | $5,000 |
| RIVERSIDE LANGUAGE PROGRAM | $5,000 |
| STAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES | $5,000 |
| STRAWTOWN ART & GARDEN STUDIO | $3,000 |
| ANGELICA CENTER FOR ARTS | $3,000 |
| VICTORY UNITED INC | $3,000 |
| SURVIVORS EMPOWERED INC | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| WILCOX THEATER AND ARTS INC | $3,000 |
| PRISON DHARMA NETWORK INC | $2,000 |
| ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOR | $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 (FY20–24, $99k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% 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.
17 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 9 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, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- BOBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP3× · 2020–2023 · $40k · revenue +96%
- CICIRCESTEEM INC3× · 2020–2022 · $35k · revenue +66%
- RREFUGEEONE3× · 2020–2023 · $30k · revenue +211%
Funded once
- MOMUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORKone grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue -3%
- CECIVIC ENSEMBLE INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +5%
- CACHRIS ANTHONY YOUTH INITIATIVE PROJECTone grant, 2021 · $10k
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 dreamyard project, inc. (dreamyard) is an arts and social justice organization dedicated to working with bronx youth, families, and schools to build pathways toward equity and opportunity.
To produce bold theatre experiences that reach across artistic, physical and social boundries. We aim to increase empathy and open-mindedness by illuminating nuanced perspectives and unspoken truths behind the salient issues of our time.…
Company one theatre builds community at the intersection of art and social change. vision: a boston defined by justice, equity, and artistic innovation. manifesto: welcome to our community, where every audience member, artist, student, and…
From classrooms to careers, studio in a school expands access to visual arts education and professions in the arts by partnering with practicing artists, schools, and cultural institutions.
Our mission is to facilitate culturally responsive, multidisciplinary art programs for students, teaching artists, and communities to develop and amplify their voices and creative skills.
Bax/brooklyn arts exchange is a multigenerational arts organization nurturing creative expression and artistic process through education, residencies, and performance at the intersection of arts and social justice.
Rooted in washington heights and inwood, the peoples theatre (formerly peoples theatre project) makes theatre with and for immigrant communities to build a more just and equitable world.
Opening Acts theater programs provide students attending New York Citys most under-served public schools the opportunity to gain confidence, pride and the knowledge that they can succeed at anything in life. We strive to offer an…
Brooklyn Acting Lab, Inc. (the Organization) was incorporated in February 2011 under the Not-for-Profit Corporation Law of the State of New York. Brooklyn Acting Labs mission is to create innovative theatrical works that reflect our…
A pioneering advocate for cultural equity, the bronx council on the arts nurtures the development of diverse artists and arts organizations and build strong cultural connections in and beyond the bronx.
Creative residency programs, artist development workshops, advanced training opportunities, and mentorship for professional actors and people who wish to participate in the performing arts.
Reel works mentors, inspires and empowers underserved nyc youth to share their stories through filmmaking, creating a springboard to successful careers in media and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Reach Out and Read of Greater New York Inc and the most unlike its peers is Museum of the City of New York. 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 27 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
28 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. 28 of the 38 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 BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds CIRCESTEEM INC ↗
- Who funds REFUGEEONE ↗
- Who funds Irondale Productions Inc ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READING TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds HOOK ARTS MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds South Bronx United Inc ↗
- Who funds FENCING IN THE PARK INC ↗
- Who funds INNERCITY WEIGHTLIFTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW ENGLAND YOUTH THEATER INC ↗
- Who funds Riverside Language Program Inc ↗
- Who funds CIVIC ENSEMBLE INC ↗
- Who funds RADIO DIARIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE COLORADO NONPROFIT DEVELOPMENT CENTER ↗
- Who funds PROJECT BIKE TECH ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds The Metropolitan Opera Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds STRAWTOWN ART & GARDEN STUDIO INC ↗
- Who funds KATONAH MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds SPRING STREET CLIMATE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds Victory United Inc ↗
- Who funds SURVIVORS EMPOWERED INC ↗
- Who funds Willcox Theater and Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds Prison Dharma Network 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: Pinkerton Foundation · Laureus Sport for Good Foundation USA · New York Council for the Humanities · Select Equity Group Foundation · Pwc Foundation Inc · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The New York Community Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Charities Aid Foundation America
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 Two West 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.
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% 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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