· Private foundation
Van Ameringen Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $315k
- $50k–250k105 grants · $8.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC | $1,000,000 |
| CHILDREN'S RIGHTS | $200,000 |
| DISABILITY ADVOCATES INC (DBA DISABILITY RIGHTS NEW YORK) | $200,000 |
| NYC COALITION TO END YOUTH AND FAMILY HOMELESSNESS | $200,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL DOCUMENTARY ASSOCIATION | $150,000 |
| NEW YORK CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER | $125,000 |
| VOCAL-NY (VOICES OF COMMUNITY ACTIVISTS AND LEADERS) | $100,000 |
| ATTIC YOUTH CENTER | $100,000 |
| YOU GOTTA BELIEVE THE OLDER CHILD ADOPTION & PERMANENCY MOVEMENT INC (YGB | $100,000 |
| PUENTES DE SALUD | $100,000 |
| BAZELON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW | $100,000 |
| KATAL CENTER FOR HEALTH EQUITY AND JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| SUPPORTIVE HOUSING NETWORK OF NEW YORK | $100,000 |
| EDUCATION LAW CENTER - PA | $100,000 |
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 (FY19–24, $10.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 88% 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.
213 repeat relationships — 94 still active in FY2024, 119 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M 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
- FHFOUNTAIN HOUSE INC5× · 2019–2024 · $4.5M · revenue +101%
- CRCHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC5× · 2019–2024 · $800k · revenue +35%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2019–2023 · $750k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF GREATER PHILADELPHIAone grant, 2021 · $250k
- TDTHE DV COLLECTIVE (VIA SAKHI FOR SOUTH ASIAN WOMEN)one grant, 2022 · $200k
- NFNYC FUND TO END YOUTH AND FAMILY HOMELESSNESSone grant, 2022 · $200k
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 child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
The agency operates community residences and supported housing programs and provides other outpatient, vocational rehabilitation & clinical services to individuals with mental illness.
The center for justice innovation is a non-profit organization that works to create a fair, effective, and humane justice system and build strong, thriving communities.
Oad strives to ensure that poor people convicted of felonies receive full and equal access to justice by providing exceptional appellate representation, improving the quality of indigent defense representation through education & training,…
Legal services nyc is a non-profit organization that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income people in new york city. a community-based organization serving more than 100,000 people annually, lsnyc is the nation's largest…
To provide rehabilitative housing services and support to help people with psychiatric disabilities reintegrate into the community.the agency provides rehabilitative housing services and staff support as a primary mechanism for achieving…
Manhattan legal services is a not-for-profit corporation organized for the purpose of providing legal assistance to indigent persons in the new york area in noncriminal proceedings or matters.
Housing works is a vibrant, healing community of people living with and affected by hiv/aids. our mission is to end the dual crises of homelessness and aids through relentless advocacy, the provision of lifesaving services, and…
Bronx parent housing network is committed to making a difference in solving the housing problem in new york city by transforming lives and creating holistic paths to employment so that individuals and families can secure safe, clean,…
Avenues for justice operates a progressive diversion program for nyc court-involved and at-risk youth, ages 13 to 24, through adapted hybrid online and onsite programming, and 24/7 mentorship with community-based court advocates, the…
Please see schedule o for full mission statement
To support underserved new yorkers and families in achieving optimal health and building pathways to reach their potential.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Access Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Carmel Hill Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.4% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
232 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. 232 of the 313 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S RIGHTS INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUDGE DAVID L BAZELON CENTER FOR MENTAL HEALTH LAW ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS COMMITTEE FOR CHILDREN OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SUPPORTIVE HOUSING NETWORK OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE ON MENTAL ILLNESS OF NEW YORK CITY INC ↗
- Who funds Make the Road New York ↗
- Who funds CORRECTIONAL ASSOCIATION OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL CENTER FOR CLUBHOUSE DEVELOPMENT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONALITIES SERVICE CENTER OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds LEGAL ACTION CENTER OF THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BREAKING GROUND HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds PREVENTION POINT PHILADELPHIA INC ↗
- Who funds RED HOOK INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds FRESH YOUTH INITIATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds UNION SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP WITH CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ABOLITIONIST LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN COMMUNITY HOUSING AND SERVICES ↗
- Who funds GODDARD RIVERSIDE COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds GRAHAM WINDHAM ↗
- Who funds THE GESU SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT HOME ↗
- Who funds Education Law Center - PA ↗
- Who funds JUVENILE LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds New York Lawyers for the Public Interest Inc ↗
- Who funds ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY LIVING AGENCIES IN MENTAL HEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Children First PA ↗
- Who funds NEW ALTERNATIVES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CH PENNSYLVANIA UNDER - 21 ↗
- Who funds THE ATTIC YOUTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds National Nurse-Led Care Consortium ↗
- Who funds URBAN JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds ASIAN AMERICAN FEDERATION INC ↗
- Who funds KATAL CENTER FOR EQUITY HEALTH AND JUSTICE 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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · The Patricia Kind Family Foundation · The Philadelphia Foundation · Mother Cabrini Health Foundation Inc · Brooklyn Community Foundation · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey · The William Penn Foundation · Henry Dolfinger 2 Trust Uw · Independence 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 Van Ameringen 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.
- Jewish Family & Children's Services of Northern New Jersey Inc — 1% 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.