· Private foundation
Charles & Mabel P Jost Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 56% of CHARLES & MABEL P JOST FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k27 grants · $87k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT | $20,000 |
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS | $10,000 |
| FAIRFIELD PREPARATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN - SPRINGFIELD | $5,000 |
| LAHEY HOSPITAL & MEDICAL CENTER | $5,000 |
| FRANKLIN PIERCE UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| CONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS CT & RI REGION | $5,000 |
| THOMAS MERTON CENTER | $4,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $4,000 |
| THE HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP | $3,000 |
| THE KENNEDY CENTER INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Charles & Mabel P Jost Foundation Inc’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, 85% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 77% — 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.
30 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
Fairfield University9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +63%- SHSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $90k · revenue +84%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +158%
Funded once
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 provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
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…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
See schedule oprovidence college is a catholic, dominican, liberal arts institution of higher education and a community committed to academic excellence.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
To foster the vitality of community through learning and the pursuit of wisdom.
To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
We are committed to providing exceptional quality care which sustains and improves both individual and community health, with a special concern for those who are poor, vulnerable and underserved.
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boys and Girls Village Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 30 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 Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHRINERS' HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Franklin Pierce University ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ADELBROOK INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS VILLAGE INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COLLEGE OF PROBATE JUDGES ↗
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: Peoples United Community Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Charles & Mabel P Jost 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 Kennedy Collective Inc — 79% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Village Inc — 32% of income from government
- Emerge Inc — 30% of income from government
- Adelbrook Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Greater Bridgeport Symphony Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% 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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