How much did CHUZA FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 85% of CHUZA FOUNDATION’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

norwalk

2021

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2022

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2023

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

03FY2024 · 20 grants

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

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$298k

Total assets

Largest grants

NOROTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH$151,500
WORLD VISION$25,360
KIDS IN CRISIS INC$25,000
CT FOOD BANK$25,000
EL CENTRO HISPANO INC$20,000
CHRISTIAN MISSION GARZA$15,000
BLUE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ALUMNI$5,000
DARIEN COMMUNITY FUND$2,500
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY$1,000
AFLIK$1,000
AMHERST ALUMNI FUND$500
CHANNEL THIRTEEN$500
DARIEN LIBRARY$300
DARIEN COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION$300
WSHU (SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY)$300

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, $92k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10% — the area typically sits at 11%. 11% 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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$876k · 31 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$876k

$17k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%

-4%

Still filing today

45%

11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementEducationOther

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

KI
KIDS IN CRISIS INC
5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +30%
EC
EL CENTRO HISPANO INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $76k · revenue +22%
CM
CHRISTIAN MISSION TO GAZA
2× · 2020–2021 · $15k · revenue +276%

Funded once

ST
SAVE THE CHILDREN
one grant, 2022 · $5k
PT
PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
one grant, 2020 · $5k
TM
THE MOUNT
one grant, 2023 · $1k

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 Darien Foundation Inc

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…

Education

Land Trust of Darien Inc

Open space preservation in darien, connecticut

Environment

Darien Community Young Men's Christian

The mission of the darien ymca is to strengthen the foundation of our community through programs that build healthy spirit, mind, and body for all. we have been a critical resource in this community for over 60 years with 300+ programs…

Human Services

Darien Study Center Inc

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.

Education

Darien Arts Center Inc

Darien arts center is a non-profit organization dedicated to educating, promoting and providing means of artistic expression and appreciation in dance, music, visual arts and theater for people of all ages.

Arts & Culture

David's House Inc

David's house provides a home away from home environment for families of sick or injured children.

Health

Domestic Abuse Intervention Services

Domestic abuse intervention services offers a wide array of crisis intervention and community education/prevention programs, including a 24-hour help line, programming for children from violent homes, legal advocacy, support groups,…

Human Services

Darien Fire Department Inc

Volunteer fire department whose purpose is to fight fires and promote fire safety.

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The Cottage in Darien Inc

To provide housing for the disabled.

Human Services

Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services

Danbury Animal Welfare Society

Dedicated to improving the lives of animals in its community and beyond. daws provides rescue,shelter and care to cats & dogs in need and offers adoption counseling

Animals

Dimitri House Inc

To serve our neighbors in need with love and acceptance, joining them on their journey toward self sufficiency.

Food & Nutrition

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is El Centro Hispano 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.

05the grantee network

16 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)

16/16

Grantees still filing

11/16

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$763,676Human Services$92,000Food & Nutrition$31,000Community Improvement$2,150Education$1,900Arts & Culture$1,200Health$1,100

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.

Mbia FoundationNY15.9× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Mbia Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation · The Darien Foundation Inc · The Meredith and Whitney George · The Goodnow Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Natl Christian Charitable Fdn 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 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.

2024

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7get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%

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: EL CENTRO HISPANO INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~13 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 134149424 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 EL CENTRO HISPANO 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

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 13 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 3% 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.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Chuza Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Chuza Foundation 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.

CHUZA FOUNDATION

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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chuza Foundation?

More from the funding graph

CHUZA FOUNDATION

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

16 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Chuza Foundation?

More from the funding graph