· Private foundation
David and Sherry Cordani 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $300k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GARY SINISE FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| BOSTON COLLEGE TRUSTEES | $100,000 |
| TEXAS A & M FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| ACHILLES INTERNATIONAL INC | $100,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF AMERICA | $35,604 |
| JDRF BREAKTHROUGH T1D | $20,207 |
| BABY2BABY | $20,000 |
| THE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY RESEARCH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| FENWICK IMPROVEMENT FUND | $2,500 |
| CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC | $2,500 |
| PAN MASSCHUSETTS CHALLENGE TRUST | $1,027 |
| CONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER | $531 |
| PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC | $500 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $262 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD | $250 |
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, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 7 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
GARY SINISE FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +75%- AIAchilles International Inc5× · 2017–2025 · $535k · revenue +128%
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE2× · 2024–2025 · $440k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- TCTHE CIGNA GROUP FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $129k · revenue +36%
- FOFELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETESgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +32%
- AOAGGIE ONE STOP (VETERAN'S UNITED FOUNDATION)one grant, 2023 · $23k
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.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
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.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
Susan g. komen 's mission is to save lives by meeting the most critical needs in our communities & investing in breakthrough research to prevent & cure breast cancer.
The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…
Our mission is to cure leukemia, lymphoma, hodgkin's disease and myeloma, and improve the quality of life of patients and their families.
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Sanford burnham prebys medical discovery institute's mission is to advance the biomedical sciences by cultivating the next generation of scientific leaders, providing meaningful opportunities for researchers of all backgrounds to learn,…
For more than 125 years, the mission of the johns hopkins hospital has been to lead the world in the diagnosis and treatment of disease and to train tomorrow's great physicians, nurses and scientists. above all, we aim to provide the…
Fred hutch cancer center ("fred hutch") unites innovative research and compassionate care to prevent and eliminate cancer and infectious disease. continued on schedule o
Susan g. komen has an unmatched, comprehensive 360-degree approach to fighting breast cancer across all fronts and supporting millions of people in the u.s. and in countries worldwide. we advocate for policies to protect patients, drive…
To significantly improve the lives of people with down syndrome through research, medical care, education and advocacy. an important part of this mission is to support the global affiliate organizations that we helped establish and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Cigna Group Foundation. 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 34 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 71 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 GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Texas A&M Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE CIGNA GROUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP OF CHRISTIAN ATHLETES ↗
- Who funds BABY2BABY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds IRAQ AND AFGHANISTAN VETERANS OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds A MILLION STARS INC DBA COLLEGE BOUND ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FENWICK IMPROVEMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds MACULAR DEGENERATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds GivenGain Foundation USA ↗
- Who funds PALM BEACH DRAMAWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN HEALTHCARE & HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL AID SOCIETY NFP ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD ↗
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 · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust 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 David and Sherry Cordani 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.
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation — 77% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford — 39% of income from government
- Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc — 12% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Greater Baltimore Medical Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.