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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.

$659k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$640k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Philanthropy$640kArts & Culture$28kRecreation & Sports$6kHuman Services$5kEducation$4kPublic Safety & Disaster$4kReligion$4kHealth$4kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $18k
  • $250k+1 grant · $640k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%CHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $400 → 14%Fishers Island Community Center: $500 → 7%Fishers Island Community Center: $500 → 7%SEARCH AND CARE INC: $500 → 17%Fishers Island Community Center: $500 → 7%Search and Care: $300 → 17%Search and Care: $300 → 17%Search and Care: $200 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
CA
VA
DE
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

6%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44k · 21 repeat orgs$661k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
19

Total granted

$44k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+21%

Still filing today

62%
37%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $647k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesEducationPublic Safety & DisasterHealthRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HL
    Henry L Ferguson Museum
    3× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +251%
  • WP
    WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $2k · revenue +30%
  • CP
    CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $2k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • OC
    Orange County African American Historical
    one grant, 2022 · $2k
  • AR
    Animal Rescue Fund Hampton
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Governors Island Corporation

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…

Animals
2
Montauk Historical Society

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Harvard Conservation Trust

To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.

Environment
4
New York Botanical Garden

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…

Environment
5
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
6
Hudson Yards Development Corporation

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…

Community Improvement
7
The Landmark Society of Western New York Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
8
Long Island Partnership Clt Housing Development Fund Company Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
9
Victoria Mansion

Preserve/Maintain Victoria Mansion

Arts & Culture
10
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

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…

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11
Randall's Island Park Alliance Inc

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,…

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12
Woodland Pond Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fishers Island Community Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

25 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. 25 of the 47 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Valley Charitable Trust: $640,302 · PhilanthropyValley Charitable TrustWTJU: $8,900 · OtherWALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION: $2,300 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $2,100 · OtherTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $2,000 · OtherPHILLIPS ACADEMY ANDOVER: $2,000 · OtherST JAMES EPISCOPAL CHURCH: $1,900 · OtherNew York Public Radio WQXR: $1,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $1,700 · OtherOrange County African American Historical: $1,650 · Other+22 more: $14,400 · OtherHenry L Ferguson Museum: $7,150 · Arts & CultureSEVEN WEST FORTY THIRD STREET FOUNDATION: $2,000 · Arts & Culture564 PARK AVENUE PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $500 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $450 · Arts & CultureFISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,300 · Recreation & SportsFISHERS ISLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,800 · Public Safety & DisasterORANGE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $1,150 · Public Safety & DisasterALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,400 · HealthCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $600 · HealthLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $600 · HealthFISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,500 · Human ServicesSEARCH AND CARE INC: $1,300 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $400 · Human Services
Philanthropy$640,302Other$38,750Arts & Culture$10,100Recreation & Sports$6,300Public Safety & Disaster$3,950Health$3,600Human Services$3,200

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHenry L Ferguson Museum: $7,150 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION: $4,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT: $2,800 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $2,400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION: $2,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $2,300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE NEW YORK SOCIETY LIBRARY: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSEARCH AND CARE INC: $1,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetORANGE VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC: $1,150 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetResurrection Episcopal Day School: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Beacon Project: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HOUSING TRUST: $500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRYMES MEMORIAL SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INSTITUTE INC: $400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Desert Land and Garden Preserve: $300 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVirginia Chamber Music Foundation: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CHAPIN SCHOOL LTD: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBEATRIX FARRAND SOCIETY: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Valley Charitable Tru…The Fairfield Foundat…W L Lyons Brown Jr Ch…The New York Communit…The Frederic C Hamilt…The Achelis & Bodman …Trippe Fund IncThe Long Stems Founda…The Spofford Foundati…Fleetwood FoundationThe Willinphila Found…The McCance Foundation
Valley Charitable TrustDE22.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Valley Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Valley Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Valley Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Valley Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 47 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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