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Diageo North America Foundation Inc

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.

$290k
Granted FY2021
362
Grants FY2021
45
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
04Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of DIAGEO NORTH AMERICA FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2021 · 362 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 362 grants below total $264,427 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $289,776 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $25,349 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under $10k360 grants · $222k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $42k
$200
Median grant
45
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Thomas Merton Center$24,540
St. Louis Area Diaper Bank at YouthBridge Community$17,670
APEX FOR YOUTH INC$8,300
MIRMONT ALCOHOL REHABILITATION CENTER$6,120
TEMPLE SHAARAY TEFILA OF WESTCHESTER$5,692
Childrens Defense Fund$5,294
AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOC CHAR INC$5,275
DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE$5,000
Metropolitan State University of Denver Foundation PO$5,000
CROSSROADS CHRISTIAN CHURCH$4,000
St. Viator High School$4,000
PROJECT 8P FOUNDATION$4,000
FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC$3,840
SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC$3,703
SAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY$3,675
02Your 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.

28%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$104k · 79 repeat orgs$267k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

79 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 273 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

79
175

Total granted

$104k
$70k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+25%

Still filing today

84%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 25% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $197k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21
EducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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

  • AL
    AMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $8k · revenue +73%
  • CHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND
    2× · 2020–2021 · $6k · revenue +17%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $5k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • THE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue ×11
  • RS
    RENFIELD SCHOOLS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $2k
  • SL
    ST LUKES FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your 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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
4
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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9
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
10
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech
11
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
12
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Alzheimers Research Association. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEducation Equity InitiativesCharter and Independent Sch…Community Hospital SystemsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Christian Outreach Ministri…Pregnancy Support CentersGovernment Accountability &…Faith-Based Homeless Servic…Veteran Support ServicesPublic Library SupportYouth Sports ProgramsAddiction & Mental Health T…Early Childhood Care CentersCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence and Sexua…Classical Music OrchestrasSchool Parent-Teacher Organ…Senior Support ServicesEnvironmental Advocacy and …Hospice and Palliative CareProfessional Dance CompaniesImmigrant and Latino Integr…Community Theater CompaniesPrivate Grantmaking Foundat…Women's Empowerment Organiz…Public School District Foun…Youth Development CentersLocal History MuseumsUnited Way AffiliatesJewish Community FederationsAsian American Civic & Cult…Childhood Cancer SupportVolunteer Fire & RescueDevelopmental Disabilities …Community Literacy TutoringChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Girls Stem Education Progra…Lgbtqia+ Advocacy and Commu…College Foundation SupportAnimal Rescue and ShelterFaith-Based Senior LivingFood Pantries and AssistanceCivil Legal Services
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr12%6%5–10yr18%16%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr20%34%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%6%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr18%18%20–35yr14%23%35–55yr20%40%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.5%2/398
the rest of the field
10%
2,154/22,047

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.

03the grantee network

368 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. 368 of the 539 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
58
Early backer (in before they grew)
363/368
Grantees still filing
246/368
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $24,540 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCSt. Louis Area Diaper Bank at YouthBridge Community — $17,670 · OtherSt. Louis Area Diaper Bank at YouthBridge Community+122 more — $155,988 · Other+122 moreMIRMONT ALCOHOL REHABILITATION CENTER — $6,120 · HealthMIRMONT ALCO…Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $5,000 · HealthDana-Farber …ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,950 · HealthALZHEIMER'S …AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,677 · HealthAMERICAN CAN…The Fistula Foundation — $3,080 · HealthThe Fistula …KENDRICK FINCHER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $2,000 · HealthKENDRICK FIN…IMPACT MELANOMA INC — $2,000 · HealthIMPACT MELAN…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,675 · Health+11 more — $7,865 · Health+11 moreSAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY — $3,675 · EducationSAINT XAVIE…UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $3,665 · EducationUNIVERSITY …Fordham University — $3,271 · EducationFordham Uni…Center for Independence through Conductive Education Inc — $3,050 · EducationCenter for …TRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $2,646 · EducationTRINITY EPI…Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $2,000 · EducationRensselaer …Cornell University — $1,500 · EducationALBION COLLEGE — $1,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $1,500 · EducationAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC — $1,445 · Education+16 more — $10,342 · Education+16 moreTHE ARC OF THE FARMINGTON VALLEY INC — $4,000 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $3,840 · Human ServicesINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $3,625 · Human ServicesFLEMING STREET FAITH CENTER INC — $2,000 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,800 · Human ServicesNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $1,575 · Human ServicesSTARFISH GREATHEARTS FOUNDATION USA — $1,367 · Human ServicesHOME FOR THE AGED OF THE LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR — $1,000 · Human ServicesA GOOD DOG RESCUE INC — $1,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC — $954 · Human Services+3 more — $1,782 · Human ServicesNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $6,119 · Civil RightsCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $5,594 · Civil RightsTHE LOVELAND FOUNDATION INC — $3,200 · Civil RightsChinese for Affirmative Action — $1,408 · Civil RightsNAACP FOUNDATION — $1,010 · Civil RightsTHE CENTER FOR REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS INC — $1,000 · Civil RightsCOLOR OF CHANGEORG EDUCATION FUND — $950 · Civil Rights+2 more — $888 · Civil RightsAPEX FOR YOUTH INC — $8,300 · Community ImprovementBLACK GIRL VENTURES FOUNDATION — $1,375 · Community ImprovementI am Beacon Inc — $1,000 · Community ImprovementLake Street Council — $1,000 · Community ImprovementHonorable Order of Kentucky Colonels Inc — $550 · Community Improvement+2 more — $703 · Community ImprovementAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC — $7,555 · ReligionGLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC — $1,500 · Religion
Other$198,198Health$36,367Education$34,594Human Services$22,943Civil Rights$20,169Community Improvement$12,928Religion$9,055

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $24,540 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAPEX FOR YOUTH INC — $8,300 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC — $7,555 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMIRMONT ALCOHOL REHABILITATION CENTER — $6,120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $6,119 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S DEFENSE FUND — $5,594 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $4,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE FARMINGTON VALLEY INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $3,840 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC — $3,703 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC — $3,677 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT XAVIER UNIVERSITY — $3,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN FRANCISCO FOUNDATION — $3,665 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL REFUGEE ASSISTANCE PROJECT INC — $3,625 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $3,271 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Fistula Foundation — $3,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Independence through Conductive Education Inc — $3,050 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGLAAD INC — $3,030 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMINNESOTA VOTERS ALLIANCE — $3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWNET — $2,678 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY EPISCOPAL SCHOOL — $2,646 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORS TOGETHER CORPORATION — $2,480 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRAMSEY COUNTY SHERIFFS FOUNDATION — $2,480 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetREDWOOD EMPIRE FOOD BANK — $2,433 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL USA INC — $2,291 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF PEOPLE WITH DISABILITIES — $2,237 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSENIORS JOB BANK INC — $2,200 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetGREATER CHICAGO FOOD DEPOSITORY — $2,150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMARINE TOYS FOR TOTS FOUNDATION — $2,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKENDRICK FINCHER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL BLEEDING DISORDERS FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST DESCENTS — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLEMING STREET FAITH CENTER INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetIMPACT MELANOMA INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $1,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches — $1,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LOWER EAST SIDE GIRLS CLUB OF NEW YORK INC — $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALEXS LEMONADE STAND FOUNDATION — $1,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BAIL PROJECT INC — $1,691 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $1,675 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE INC — $1,575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBION COLLEGE — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBAL TRAINING NETWORK INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN NURSES FOUNDATION INC — $1,445 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 Co…The Lazard Charitable…Mbia FoundationUnion Savings Bank Fo…Synchrony FoundationViking Global Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Elizabeth Raymond Amb…Steven & Alexandra Co…Arthur J Gallagher Fo…The Yelp FoundationThe Goldman Sachs Cha…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT46.4× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Lazard Charitable Foundation · Mbia Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Inc · Arthur J Gallagher Foundation · The Yelp Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund

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.

04Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Diageo North America Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Diageo North America Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 539 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this funder made grants.

Source object · view filing

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