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Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k32 grants · $681k
- $50k–250k65 grants · $6.1M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COVENANT HOUSE | $250,000 |
| MARIE SELBY BOTANICAL GARDENS INC | $175,000 |
| SARASOTA ORCHESTRA | $175,000 |
| SARASOTA OPERA ASSOCIATION | $175,000 |
| SUNRISE ASSOCIATION | $160,000 |
| GIVE2ASIA USA (MYRIAD USA) | $150,000 |
| CHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC | $150,000 |
| HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY | $150,000 |
| RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC | $150,000 |
| GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS | $150,000 |
| ASOLO THEATRE | $150,000 |
| SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK | $150,000 |
| LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS | $130,055 |
| FOS FEMINISTA | $130,000 |
| MYFACE | $125,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $5.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 62% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 56% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +38% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
127 repeat relationships — 62 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 12 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $908k 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
- JSJUILLIARD SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +64%
Sarasota Opera Association Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +44%- ATASOLO THEATRE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +25%
Funded once
- VTVICTORIA THEATRE ASSOCIATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +134%
- DPDayton Performing Arts Allianceone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue 0%
- ACALD CONNECT INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $150k · revenue +39% · 36% of their budget
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.
Chicago opera theater expands the tradition of opera as a living art form by engaging lovers of music and storytelling through innovative experiences, predominantly of new and rarely performed works.
Producing and developing plays and musicals.
We believe opera is a uniquely compelling, entertaining and emotionally thrilling art form. our mission is to bring together growing audiences to experience opera's transformative power.
Wp theater is the nation's oldest and largest theater company dedicated to developing, producing, and promoting the work of women+ at every stage of their careers. for over four decades we have served as leaders of a global movement…
New york city opera was famously dubbed "the people's opera" by mayor fiorello laguardia at its founding in 1943. more than 80 years later, city opera continues its historic mission to inspire audiences with innovative and theatrically…
To serve the public by producing world-class opera that preserves, promotes and advances the art form while embodying the diversity, spirit and artistic sensibility unique to los angeles. we envision an engaged and enlightened community in…
See schedule o for the description of pittsburgh ballet theatre inc.'s primary mission.the ballet is pittsburgh's source and ambassador for extraordinary ballet experiences that give life to the classical tradition, nurture new ideas and,…
The new group is an artist-driven company with a commitment to developing and producing powerful, contemporary theater. while constantly evolving, we maintain an ensemble approach to all our work and an articulated style of emotional…
See schedule operformance space new york is committed to promoting the arts (including performance, visual and all other contemporary arts), fostering artistic development (including through direct grants), advancing diversity in the field…
New york theatre ballet's (nytb) mission is to inspire a love of dance for audiences of all ages by offering affordable prices for a range of performances and public activities throughout the year.
We believe in the life-changing, transformational, revelatory power of great art and opera. Lyric Opera of Chicago exists to provide a broad, deep, and relevant cultural service to the Chicago region and the nation, and to advance the…
Alvin ailey dance foundation's mission is to further the pioneering vision of the choreographer, dancer, and cultural leader alvin ailey by building an extended cultural community which provides dance performances, training and education,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Professional Childrens School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Steve Nash Foundation. 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 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
190 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. 190 of the 231 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 OPERA AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds JUILLIARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Sarasota Opera Association Inc ↗
- Who funds ASOLO THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds SUNRISE DAY CAMPS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR FACIAL RECONSTRUCTION INC ↗
- Who funds PROFESSIONAL CHILDRENS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INCORPORATED OF SARASOTA COUNTY ↗
- Who funds SOMERSET HILLS LEARNING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Naples Therapeutic Riding Center Inc ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHWEST AND CENTRAL FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds THE PAINTED TURTLE ↗
- Who funds The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL HEALTH CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds CHANCES FOR CHILDREN - NY INC ↗
- Who funds Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center ↗
- Who funds THE NEW YORK COMMUNITY TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE RIVER FUND NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE EMMA ALYSON & KATE HANCE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR PROGRAM FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET THEATRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds VAIL VALLEY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Children First Inc ↗
- Who funds BETH MORRISON PROJECTS 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 Shubert Foundation Inc · The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc · The Andrew W Mellon Foundation · The Aaron Copland Fund for Music Inc Co Alter Kendrick & Baron LLP · Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation Co Kelley Drye & Warren LLP · Jewish Communal Fund · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Booth Ferris Foundation Xxxxx4008 · American Express Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Barbara Bell Cumming Charitable Trust Co Herrick Feinstein LLP · The Ford 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 Virginia B Toulmin Charitable Foundation III 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.
- Children First Inc — 100% of income from government
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network — 47% of income from government
- York Street Project — 32% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Lead Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Shelter for Abused Women & Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- David Lawrence Mental Health Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Holy Name Medical Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Ballet Inc — 0% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens Inc — 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc — 0% of income from government
- Silver Hill 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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