· Private foundation
522 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 $10k17 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $259k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UATX | $75,000 |
| US LACROSSE INC | $25,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| TABOR ACADEMY | $25,000 |
| WESTMINSTER SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE | $20,000 |
| THE STAMFORD HOSPITAL | $18,000 |
| KOLBE CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL | $18,000 |
| LAND TRUST OF DARIEN INC | $16,000 |
| PERSON TO PERSON | $16,000 |
| THE DARIEN FOUNDATION | $16,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $15,000 |
| SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| A BETTER CHOICE IN DARIEN INC | $10,000 |
| DARIEN EMS POST 53 | $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 (FY20–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
31 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 85% 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
- WSWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC3× · 2020–2022 · $515k · revenue +52%
- ULUS LACROSSE INC3× · 2020–2024 · $227k · revenue +3%
- UUATX3× · 2022–2024 · $219k · revenue +401%
Funded once
- HLHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $380k · revenue +57%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +4%
- TWTEAM WESTERN KENTUCKY TORNADO RELIEF FUNDone grant, 2021 · $22k
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 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…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
See schedule o.drake's mission is to provide an exceptional learning environment that prepares students for meaningful personal lives, professional accomplishments, and responsible global citizenship. the drake experience is distinguished…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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.
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To inform and enrich the intellectual lives of 20,000 alumni of harvard university in the washington, dc area and to assist harvard university with respect to applicants and undergraduates from the dc area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Darien Community Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hackers for Hope 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 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 50 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 WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds US LACROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds UATX ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST OF DARIEN INC ↗
- Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Darien Community Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN INC ↗
- Who funds TABOR ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HACKERS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds Darien Athletic Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds One Plympton Preservation Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROWAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AT HOME IN DARIENINC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT YOUTH LACROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds WEE BURN CADDY SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
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 Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Weil Foundation · Pieter and Yvette Eenkema Van Dijk Foundation · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · The Goodnow Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Alexandra Foundation · The Rogers Family Foundation · Grune Family Foundation Inc · The Roxe Foundation · The Darien Foundation Inc · Chuza 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 522 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.
- The Community Fund of Darien — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- The Stamford 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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