· Private foundation
Varnum-De Rose Trust
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 $10k6 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $224k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $165k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION | $55,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $55,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY | $55,000 |
| PROSTATE ACTION INC | $25,000 |
| DOROT INC | $25,000 |
| SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH OF NEWARK | $25,000 |
| ST GEORGES SOCIETY OF NEW YORK | $25,000 |
| KIDS IN CLEATS INC | $20,000 |
| CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES | $20,000 |
| ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $15,000 |
| FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF SOUTHAMPTON | $12,000 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH OF SOUTHAMPTON | $12,000 |
| COMMUNITY BAPTIST CH OF SOUTHAMPTON | $10,000 |
| SOUTH SHORE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $101k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 4 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- JLJOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $260k · revenue +49%
- AFARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $97k · revenue +7%
Cornell University3× · 2021–2023 · $85k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- SBSHILOH BAPTIST CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $26k
UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGHone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +11%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +78%
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.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Long island jewish medical center is part of the northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Georgetown University and the most unlike its peers is Two Mauds Inc. 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 40 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) — 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 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.
30 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. 30 of the 58 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 TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds JOSE LIMON DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SOCIETY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds DOROT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR COMMUNITY ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds RALEIGH CHARTER HIGH SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE MONTCLAIR ART MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds WEVE GOT FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HAVENS RELIEF FUND SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LYME DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JED FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FURMAN UNIVERSITY ↗
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 New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Varnum-De Rose Trust 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.
- The Montclair Art Museum — 11% 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.