· Private foundation
Valley Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $18k
- $250k+1 grant · $640k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VALLEY CHARITABLE TRUST | $640,302 |
| WTJU | $5,900 |
| HENRY L FERGUSON MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| PHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER | $2,000 |
| SEVEN WEST FORTY THIRD STREET FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| ST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $1,900 |
| 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION | $500 |
| SEARCH AND CARE INC | $500 |
| CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC | $400 |
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 (FY20–25, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 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, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $647k 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
- HLHenry L Ferguson Museum3× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +236%
- WPWALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION4× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +30%
- CPCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $2k
- OCOrange County African American Historicalone grant, 2022 · $2k
- ARAnimal Rescue Fund Hamptonone grant, 2024 · $1k
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 governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
See schedule oto coordinate and facilitate the economic development of the hudson yards area of manhattan. this includes construction of an extension to the no. subway line, the coordination of the design and construction of certain public…
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
Long island partnership clt housing development fund company, inc. (lipclt) was established to provide housing within nassau and suffolk counties in new york for "persons of low income", as defined in any federal or state low income…
Preserve/Maintain Victoria Mansion
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
The randall's island park alliance, inc. (ripa) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that works with the city of new york and local communities to provide an innovative and exciting destination through a wide range of sports venues,…
Woodland pond, inc. dba woodland pond at new paltz, was created to construct and operate a continuing care retirement community (the "ccrc") named woodland pond at new paltz, under article 46 of new york state public health law.the ccrc…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fishers Island Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Valley Charitable Trust. 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 41 years old; the field is 10. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 33% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 47 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 Valley Charitable Trust ↗
- Who funds Henry L Ferguson Museum ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds SEVEN WEST FORTY THIRD STREET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SEARCH AND CARE INC ↗
- Who funds ORANGE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds The Beacon Project ↗
- Who funds Resurrection Episcopal Day School ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HOUSING TRUST ↗
- Who funds GRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds 564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve ↗
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: Valley Charitable Trust · The Fairfield Foundation · W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · The Achelis & Bodman Foundation Co Manice & Budd LLP · Trippe Fund Inc · The Long Stems Foundation Inc · The Spofford Foundation Inc · Fleetwood Foundation · The Willinphila Foundation · The McCance 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 Valley Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital 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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