· Private foundation
Chuza Foundation
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 $10k14 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOROTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $151,500 |
| WORLD VISION | $25,360 |
| CT FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| KIDS IN CRISIS INC | $25,000 |
| EL CENTRO HISPANO INC | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MISSION GARZA | $15,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ALUMNI | $5,000 |
| DARIEN COMMUNITY FUND | $2,500 |
| AFLIK | $1,000 |
| PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| AMHERST ALUMNI FUND | $500 |
| WSHU (SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY) | $300 |
| A BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN | $300 |
| DARIEN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION | $300 |
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, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- KIKIDS IN CRISIS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +67%
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +64%
- ECEL CENTRO HISPANO INC4× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- PTPRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2020 · $5k
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -13%- PPTSone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 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…
The darien foundation's mission is to provide grant funding for technology and capital projects that create opportunity for darien's youth, support town safety and security services, enhance the overall quality of life in darien, and…
Open space preservation in darien, connecticut
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
In cooperation with the Roman Catholic Prelature of Opus Dei, Darien Study Center fosters the search for holiness in the middle of the world, by means of ordinary work and all the other circumstances of daily life. See www.opusdei.org.
Fca is a community-based behavioral health center that offers innovation, responsive and traditional mental health care and services for children, adolescents, adults and their families.
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
to provide ambulance services
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
Damian is a system of 14 federally qualified health centers with a mission to provide quality, comprehensive health care to medically underserved individuals, regardless of their ability to pay. our core services are designed to improve…
Volunteer fire department whose purpose is to fight fires and promote fire safety.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Darien Community Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is Christian Mission to Gaza. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 years old; the field is 13. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 25% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 16% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 49 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 KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MISSION TO GAZA ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Darien Community Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Forman Christian College Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC ↗
- Who funds The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated ↗
- Who funds AT HOME IN DARIENINC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN POLICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL CENTER INC ↗
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 Goodnow Fund · Schaefer-Phillips Foundation Inc · 522 Foundation Inc · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · Mbia Foundation · The Darien Foundation Inc · The Stuart L Higley Foundation Inc · Pieter and Yvette Eenkema Van Dijk Foundation · The Rogers Family Foundation · The Roxe Foundation · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · Fairfield County's Community 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 organization Chuza 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Friends of Ambler Farm Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated — 2% 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.