How much did COLON FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of COLON FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC’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.

02FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$1,000

Median grant

States reached

$44k

Total assets

Largest grants

JOHN LINTZ MEMORIAL$5,000
BRIDGEPORT YMCA$5,000
HOOPS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION$3,500
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY$1,500
THE HISPANIC SOCIETY$1,200
CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA$1,000
GREAT RIVER GOLF CLUB SPONSORSHIP$1,000
GOODWIN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION$1,000
MILFORD KIWANIS FOUNDATION$900
BRIDGEPORT PREP BASKETBALL$890
RIDE LIFE CARES$500
CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE$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 (FY19–23, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-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.

$219k · 16 repeat orgs$110k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +71% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$219k

$103k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+71%

+20%

Still filing today

44%

15%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsEmploymentOther

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

UO
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH FLORIDA
4× · 2019–2023 · $35k · revenue +71%
BC
BRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEAGUE
4× · 2018–2022 · $16k · revenue +325%
HA
HOOPS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION
4× · 2021–2024 · $9k · revenue +340%

Funded once

BS
BTX SEA FREIGHT (PUERTO RICO RELIEF)
one grant, 2018 · $15k
SF
SHIPMAN'S FIRE EQUIPMENT COMPANY INC
one grant, 2020 · $9k
TH
THE HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL
one grant, 2018 · $6k

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.

Connecticut Junior Soccer

To promote and develop youth soccer

Recreation & Sports

Bbfg Foundation Inc

Provide uconn student athletes' services & make financial donations to youth charities in ct.

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Citizens Committee for Greenwich Youth

CCGY mission is to provide our youth with engaging programs, activities, and special events in a supportive and safe environment. CCGY oversees the Greenwich Youth CenteR.

Youth Development

Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc

To promote the legal rights and interests of poor children who are dependent for their care upon connecticuts judicial, child welfare, health, mental health, education and juvenile systems.

Civil Rights

Boys & Girls Club of Milford Inc

To provide behavioral guidance and to promote the health, social, educational, vocational, and character development of boys and girls.

Youth Development

The Child and Family Guidance Center Inc

The child and family guidance center (cfgc) is a community-based center that provides therapeutic, prevention, early intervention as well as support services to children and families in fairfield county ct. since 1925, cfgc has provided…

Human Services

First Serve Bridgeport Inc

Provide tennis instruction, competitive play and academic tutoring for the under-served youth in bridgeport connecticut. the student athletes gain exposure to positive role models and opportunities to advance in education, tennis and life.

Recreation & Sports

Boys & Girls Clubs of Central and

Enable young people to reach their full potential as productive, caring, responsible citizens.

Youth Development

Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc

Sport recreational activities for youth within the bridgeport area. they empower youth through engagement and mentorship

Recreation & Sports

Connecticut Children's

Mission is to avail comprehensive state-wide services to all child victims and their families through collaboration, systemic change, public awareness and legislative advocacy.

Youth Development

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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Bc Sports Inc

The corporation will operate a health and sports facility primarily geared towards youth and senior citizens residing in and around new haven county, connecticut. the number of health, training and educational offerings will range from…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Caribe Youth Leaders Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mj Petretto 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.

04the grantee network

15 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)

14/15

Grantees still filing

12/15

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$267,086Philanthropy$24,750Youth Development$22,200Recreation & Sports$10,900Human Services$3,000Employment$1,000

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.

Fairfield County's Community FoundationCT15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation · Ge Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 organisation COLON FAMILY EDUCATION 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.

2024

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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: HEDGEYE CARES.

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 473198241 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 HEDGEYE CARES, 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.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 18% 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 Colon Family Education Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Colon Family Education Foundation Inc 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.

COLON FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Colon Family Education Foundation Inc?

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COLON FAMILY EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

15 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Colon Family Education Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph