· Private foundation
Utopia Fund
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $135k
- $250k+1 grant · $280k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ETON COLLEGE | $280,000 |
| AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE ROYAL FOUNDATION | $135,000 |
| 101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY | $25,000 |
| THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| HARVARD LAW SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| 122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION | $5,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 60% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +47% since the first grant, against +33% for those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF ETON COLLEGE8× · 2018–2025 · $705k · revenue +135%
- MDMYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $140k · revenue +68%
- THTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL7× · 2018–2025 · $100k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- HGHARVARD GRADUATE SCHOOL OF DESIGNone grant, 2021 · $25k
- CLCOLUMBIA LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $20k
- AFAMERICAN FRIENDS OF NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERYone grant, 2023 · $10k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
Enhance the ability of actec members to provide the most efficient and highest quality services to their clients; develop qualified trust and estate counselors; improve and reform probate, trust and tax laws, procedures, and standards of…
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.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
Gettysburg college is a residential, undergraduate college of the liberal arts and sciences.
How this is measured
14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF ETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds MYOTONIC DYSTROPHY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds 101 EAST 69TH STREET CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds THEODORE ROOSEVELT CONSERVATION PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARSHALL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds 122 EAST 66TH STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Atlantic Salmon Federation (US) Inc ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Utopia Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Utopia Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
- Wellesley College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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