How much did ALBERT AND HELEN MESERVE MEM FUND grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 66% of ALBERT AND HELEN MESERVE MEM FUND’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2020

wheels

2021

wheels

2022

univ fbocornell univtothendicott fboiona fbofowlerembry-riddle aeronautical

2023

univ fbofowlersmith fbonortheastern univyouth

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k38 grants · $119k
$10k–50k6 grants · $70k

$3,000

Median grant

States reached

$4.7M

Total assets

Largest grants

REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF$15,000
THE CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT AND EDUCATION$12,500
ANN'S PLACE INC$12,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY$10,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$10,000
CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE$10,000
FILLING IN THE BLANKS$8,000
FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AID INC$7,500
DANBURY YOUTH SERVICES INC$5,000
DANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD$5,000
DANBURY POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC$5,000
DANBURY MUSIC CENTRE INC$4,000
TOWN OF RIDGEFIELD$3,500
LITTLE BRITCHES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC$3,250

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $138k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$544k · 33 repeat orgs$272k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$544k

$165k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%

+51%

Still filing today

52%

12%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthYouth DevelopmentOther

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

AP
ANNS PLACE INC
4× · 2020–2023 · $45k · revenue +33%
CC
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY
5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +25%
JA
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD
3× · 2022–2024 · $20k · revenue +22%

Funded once

WC
WESTERN CONNECTICUT ST UNIV FBO
one grant, 2023 · $7k
RY
REGIONAL YMCA OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC
one grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +5%
CC
CHILDREN'S CENTER OF NEW MILFORD INC
one grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +24%

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

04Your field

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 Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health

Ridgefield Community Kindergarten Inc

To provide preschool education for children ages 2-5.

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Southfield Children's Center

To provide quality childcare for children living in the state of connecticut.

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Connecticut Explored Inc

To educate the general public about the history and cultural heritage of the State of Connecticut and the role the State and its citizens have played as part of the American experience.

Education

The Day Care Center of New Canaan Inc

To provide day care for afterschool and preschool children

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Westbrook Youth and Family

To support and strengthen the youth and families of westbrook, ct through coordinating and providing a comprehensive delivery system of prevention, intervention, treatment, and follow up services

Human Services

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

Capitol Child Development Center

The center was founded by the state of ct as a model for employer sponsored childcare programs.

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The Community Action Agency of

Provide services to combat poverty & promote self sufficiency among residents of western ct

Community Improvement

Child Care Council of Dutchess

To promote affordable and quality child care, provide information and support to families, and strengthen the early childhood workforce in dutchess and putnam counties.

Human Services

Connecticut Trust for Historic

Interacts with other groups, individuals and organizations to encourage, advocate and facilitate historical preservation throughout connecticut.

Arts & Culture

Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc

Established in 1956, the mid-fairfield child guidance center, inc. (mid-fairfield) serves as the community safety net for thousands of families in the greater norwalk region who cannot afford private behavioral health services for their…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Fairfield County and the most unlike its peers is Founders Hall Foundation 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/43

the rest of the field

1,966/22,361

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.

05the grantee network

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

42/42

Grantees still filing

34/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$547,300Human Services$138,250Arts & Culture$34,200Education$31,800Food & Nutrition$29,000International$20,000Youth Development$15,000

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.

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.

Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation IncCT37.6× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & · The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck · Ion Bank Foundation Inc

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 organisation ALBERT AND HELEN MESERVE MEM FUND 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

18get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 463076503 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 5% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to Albert and Helen Meserve Mem Fund?

Find your warmest path to Albert and Helen Meserve Mem Fund through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ALBERT AND HELEN MESERVE MEM FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Albert and Helen Meserve Mem Fund?

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ALBERT AND HELEN MESERVE MEM FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Albert and Helen Meserve Mem Fund?

More from the funding graph