· Private foundation
Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2020–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k18 grants · $59k
- $10k–50k20 grants · $340k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTIS NAPLES | $500,000 |
| CHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST | $200,000 |
| ARTIS NAPLES | $50,000 |
| ARTIS NAPLES | $50,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-BIOLOGICAL STATION | $30,000 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $25,000 |
| PROSPECT HILL ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-ARTS FOR THE DR CONRAD A & NANCY SMITH ISTOCK SCH | $25,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| ARTIS NAPLES | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN-MEN OF MICHIGAN PROSTATECANCER RESEARCH FUND | $15,000 |
| NCH HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–22, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, 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 +37% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
52 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2023, 25 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- AIARTIS-NAPLES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $912k · revenue +14%
- TCTHE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES3× · 2020–2022 · $98k · revenue +19%
- MSMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC3× · 2021–2023 · $98k · revenue +36%
Funded once
- HFHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $52k · revenue +173%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN BASKETBALL SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2022 · $50k
- MSMERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC CHICAGOone grant, 2020 · $35k
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Engage actively and continuously in medical research, education and training in the practice of medicine in conjunction with the department of family medicine of the indiana university school of medicine and indiana university…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
The organization's mission is to educate students for creative occupations in diverse fields of arts and media.
See schedule ouniversity corporation for atmospheric research (ucar), on behalf of, and in cooperation with its member university members, is engaged in the management of long-term atmospheric and related research and educational…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Geographic Society. 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 42 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) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
73 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. 73 of the 134 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 ARTIS-NAPLES INC ↗
- Who funds CHI PSI EDUCATIONAL TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ↗
- Who funds MERIT SCHOOL OF MUSIC ↗
- Who funds Chicago Symphony Orchestra ↗
- Who funds University of Michigan ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds MCLAREN NORTHERN MICHIGAN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARBOR SPRINGS LYRIC THEATRE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COLLIER AND THE KEYS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY FOR SOUTHEASTERN MICHIGAN ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH F GAMBLE GARDEN ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds Great Lakes Center for the Arts ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COLLIER COUNTY FLOR ↗
- Who funds THE CHICAGO CLUB PRESERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAVY SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GERALD R FORD PRESIDENTIAL FOUNDATION ↗
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: Collier Community Foundation Inc · William T & Ann D McCormick Educational and Charitable Foundation · Frey Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Petoskey-Harbor Springs Area Community Foundation · Patrick G and Shirley W Ryan Foundation · The Offield Family Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Charles Stewart Mott Foundation · Amg Charitable Gift Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund
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 Verne G and Judith a Istock Foundation 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% 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.