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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.

$386k
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$1.4MRecreation & Sports$622kFood & Nutrition$171kPublic Safety & Disaster$134kPhilanthropy$82kHealth$74kEnvironment$71kHuman Services$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $52k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $259k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
$9,336
Median grant
8
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UATX$75,000
TABOR ACADEMY$25,000
TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY$25,000
US LACROSSE INC$25,000
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE$20,000
WESTMINSTER SCHOOL$20,000
THE STAMFORD HOSPITAL$18,000
KOLBE CATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL$18,000
THE DARIEN FOUNDATION$16,000
PERSON TO PERSON$16,000
LAND TRUST OF DARIEN INC$16,000
FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY$15,000
SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY$15,000
DARIEN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION INC$10,000
DARIEN EMS POST 53$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $2k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $2k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $1k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $1k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NY
MA
OH
PA
CT
CA
KY
MD
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 31 repeat orgs$588k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
14

Total granted

$2.2M
$529k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+30%

Still filing today

84%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationRecreation & SportsHealthPhilanthropyCommunity ImprovementFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WS
    WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC
    3× · 2020–2022 · $515k · revenue +52%
  • UL
    US LACROSSE INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $227k · revenue +3%
  • U
    UATX
    3× · 2022–2024 · $219k · revenue +401%

Funded once

  • HL
    HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $380k · revenue +57%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $45k · revenue +4%
  • TW
    TEAM WESTERN KENTUCKY TORNADO RELIEF FUND
    one grant, 2021 · $22k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Darrow School

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…

Education
3
Dean College

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,…

Education
4
University of Hartford

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.

Education
5
Daemen University

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…

Education
6
Drake University

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…

Education
7
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
8
Furman University

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.

Education
9
Delaware Valley University

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…

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10
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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11
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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12
Harvard Club of Washington Dc

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Darien Community Association Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
30/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $515,000 · EducationWATERSIDE SCHOOL INCUATX: $219,000 · EducationUATXTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $96,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMYPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $86,750 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Middlebury CollegeTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $84,000 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INCTHE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC: $59,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $44,951 · Education+5 more: $47,650 · EducationHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $380,230 · Recreation & SportsHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADE…US LACROSSE INC: $227,000 · Recreation & SportsUS LACROSSE INC+2 more: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERSITY: $139,215 · OtherCLEVELAND STATE UNIVERS…FISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $58,000 · OtherFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION…CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $50,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE I…DOMUS KIDS INC: $43,875 · OtherDOMUS KIDS INCKOLBE CATHEDRAL CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL INC: $36,000 · OtherKOLBE CATHEDRAL CATHOLI…A BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN INC: $31,000 · OtherA BETTER CHANCE IN DARI…TEAM WESTERN KENTUCKY TORNADO RELIEF FUND: $22,000 · OtherST THOMAS MORE PARISH: $20,948 · OtherWILLIAMS COLLEGE PARENTS FUND: $20,200 · OtherINTER-TRIBAL COUNCIL OF AT&T: $20,000 · OtherDarien Community Association Inc: $50,000 · OtherDarien Community Associ…+15 more: $85,390 · Other+15 moreDARIEN EMS POST 53 INC: $110,000 · HealthThe Stamford Hospital: $61,500 · Health+2 more: $1,165 · HealthTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $118,060 · Food & NutritionPERSON TO PERSON INC: $75,515 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $6,549 · PhilanthropyLAND TRUST OF DARIEN INC: $70,650 · Environment
Education$1,152,851Recreation & Sports$622,230Other$576,628Health$172,665Food & Nutrition$118,060Philanthropy$82,064Environment$70,650

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWATERSIDE SCHOOL INC: $515,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION: $380,230 over 1y, 6.1% of budgetUS LACROSSE INC: $227,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUATX: $219,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $118,060 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDARIEN EMS POST 53 INC: $110,000 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY: $96,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College: $86,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $84,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $75,515 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLAND TRUST OF DARIEN INC: $70,650 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital: $61,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC: $59,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetFISHER HOUSE FOUNDATION INC: $58,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDarien Community Association Inc: $50,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $44,951 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOMUS KIDS INC: $43,875 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN INC: $31,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSYRACUSE UNIVERSITY: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHACKERS FOR HOPE INC: $10,150 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetDarien Athletic Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetOne Plympton Preservation Foundation Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE ROWAN CENTER INC: $9,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAT HOME IN DARIENINC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $6,549 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetDARIEN LIBRARY INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWEE BURN CADDY SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $2,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College: $1,650 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDARIEN POLICE ASSOCIATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDARIEN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSONG FOR CHARLIE INC: $1,035 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIGNAL TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HALO TRUST (USA) INC: $510 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEADSTRONG FOUNDATION: $130 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Meredith and Whit…The Weil FoundationPieter and Yvette Een…The Edward E Hood Jr …The Goodnow FundFairfield County's Co…Alexandra FoundationThe Rogers Family Fou…Grune Family Foundati…The Roxe FoundationThe Darien Foundation…Chuza Foundation
The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation IncCT24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization 522 Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from 522 Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to 522 Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to 522 Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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