· Private foundation
W P Carey Foundation Inc
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k96 grants · $271k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $655k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $225k
- $250k+8 grants · $23M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA | $7,500,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL | $5,107,500 |
| ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY | $5,000,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $3,500,000 |
| ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA | $1,002,500 |
| GILMAN SCHOOL | $527,095 |
| CALVERT SCHOOL | $526,650 |
| POMFRET SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| CAREY INSTITUTE FOR GLOBAL GOOD | $72,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA MEDICINE | $52,356 |
| BEACON UNITARIAN UNIVERSAL CONGREGATION | $50,000 |
| ENOCH PRATT FREE LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| STUDENT SPONSOR PARTNERS | $46,050 |
| UC SAN DIEGO FOUNDATION | $45,000 |
| THIRD OPTION FOUNDATION | $40,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $209k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
153 repeat relationships — 90 still active in FY2024, 63 since wound down; 43 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $257k 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
JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY3× · 2020–2024 · $19M · revenue +42%- GSGILMAN SCHOOL INCORPORATED4× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +111%
- CSCALVERT SCHOOL INCORPORATED4× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +29%
Funded once
- UUOPone grant, 2021 · $14M
- AASUone grant, 2021 · $6.6M
- JJHUone grant, 2021 · $5.0M
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.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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…
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
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.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Kindle Hill 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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
230 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. 230 of the 339 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.
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- Who funds ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
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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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · T Rowe Price Program for Charitable Giving Inc · Brown Advisory Charitable Foundation Inc · Baltimore Community Foundation Inc · Buckingham School Frederick County Md · First Eagle Investments Foundation · The United Way of Central Maryland Inc · The Thomas F & Clementine L Mullan Foundation Inc · Thomas Wilson Sanitarium for Children of Baltimore City · France-Merrick Foundation Inc · Ac and Penney Hubbard Foundation Inc · The Charles T Bauer Charitable 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 W P Carey 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, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Maryland Family Network Inc — 66% of income from government
- Land Preservation Trust Inc — 64% of income from government
- Lutheran World Relief Inc — 47% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Baltimore Symphony Orchestra Inc — 11% of income from government
- Maryland Historical Society Inc — 9% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Homeless Solutions Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Beacon College Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- The Johns Hopkins Hospital — 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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