· Private foundation
Cherry Family Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $47k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelter | $35,000 |
| Neighborhood Connections Inc | $11,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Weston Playhouse Theatre Co | $4,400 |
| Vermont Foodbank | $3,000 |
| Aurora Womens & Girls Foundation | $2,500 |
| Thin Line Peer Support Team Inc | $1,000 |
| Reeno Foundation Company | $1,000 |
| Brittany Rescue In Texas Inc | $1,000 |
| Hundred Club of Connecticut Inc | $1,000 |
| Manchester Community Library | $750 |
| Windham Community Organization | $500 |
| South Londonderry Library Association Inc | $500 |
| The Collaborative | $500 |
| West River Community Project Company | $100 |
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 (FY18–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 18%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- NCNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $63k · revenue +95%
- FOFRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $35k · revenue +242%
- BRBRITTANY RESCUE IN TEXAS INC6× · 2019–2025 · $24k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- SLSIMPLY LIVE AND LOVE FULLY INCone grant, 2019 · $15k
- WCWESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue +137%
- DSDCAS Special Funds Medical Dan Cosgrove Animal Shelterone grant, 2019 · $10k
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 connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
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…
Using the humanities, we connect with people across vermont to create just, vibrant, and resilient communities, and to inspire a lifelong love of learning.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
Connecticut Land Conservation Council, Inc.s mission is to elevate and strengthen land conservation in Connecticut.
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
To promote, for the benefit of the general public, the conservation of land and water natural resources principally in, but not limited to, the town of kent, connecticut.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the most unlike its peers is Thin Line Peer Support Team 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 31 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 0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 62 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 NEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF MCGILL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds BRITTANY RESCUE IN TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
- Who funds DESMONDS ARMY ANIMAL LAW ADVOCATES ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HUNDRED CLUB OF CONNECTICUTINC ↗
- Who funds AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN VERMONT HEALTH AND RECREATION CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds THE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL LEGAL DEFENSE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds MADISON LAND CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAY OF LIGHT FARM INC ↗
- Who funds ENERGIZE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds Tutwiler Community Education Center ↗
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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Cherry Family Foundation 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.
- Bristol Adult Resource Center Inc — 94% of income from government
- Madison Land Conservation Trust — 68% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Neighborhood Connections Inc — 7% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Weston Playhouse Theater — 0% of income from government
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc — 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.