· Private foundation
Disosway Foundation Inc
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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $50k–250k6 grants · $742k
- $250k+4 grants · $2.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,100,000 |
| PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES | $500,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC | $253,440 |
| ST EDMUND'S RETREAT INC | $250,000 |
| THE ATLANTA OPERA CENTER | $200,000 |
| SAIL NEWPORT INC | $125,000 |
| GLIMMERGLASS FESTIVAL | $117,000 |
| WATERSHED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC | $100,000 |
| WATCH HILL LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOCIATION | $100,000 |
| STONINGTON COMMUNITY ROWING CENTER INC | $100,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 50% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 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, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $667k 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
- PFPARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC6× · 2019–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +99%
- NENEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC2× · 2023–2024 · $289k · revenue +15%
- SCSTONINGTON COMMUNITY ROWING INC2× · 2023–2024 · $200k · revenue +56%
Funded once
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INCone grant, 2019 · $100k · revenue +2%- HLHARVARD LAW SCHOOLone grant, 2019 · $50k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue +104%
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.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
To engage people of all ages in the joy of sailing, offering access to all nantucket's youth, and teaching every participant in our programs enduring life and leadership skills, with a deep respect for the marine environment.
Inclusive empowerment through marine science and community sailing
To have a membership composed of yachting and boating enthusiasts of good character and all ages that is predominantly resident to local area, represents a broad spectrum of the community, and is appropriate in size for our facilities; to…
The organization preserves the history of sailing and its impact on american culture; honors those who have made outstanding contributions to the sport; demonstrates its value for scholastic and life skills learning; and encourages sailing…
Education of students
To provide affordable access to the water through community sailing and educational programming.
Promote the safe, responsible, and enjoyable operation of sailboats and other watercraft for people of all ages, genders, and ethnic backgrounds. we wish to promote sailing and boating as viable and rewarding activities and ensure that…
The mission of the essex yacht club is to promote excellence in yachting activities among its members, including racing, cruising, and off water club activities. to accomplish this mission, the club has developed year-round member…
Sea educates and inspires ocean scholars, stewards and leaders. sea fosters and enhances knowledge about the state of oceans and coastal communities. it also helps shape public dialogue and policy through long-term environmental reseach,…
To attract and bring together a dedicated group in yachting and naval members to share and foster their interest in yachting and yacht racing;(continue on schedule o)
The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sail Newport and the most unlike its peers is Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 18 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 OPERA PHILADELPHIA ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR SACRED PLACES INC ↗
- Who funds Bella Mente Quantum Racing Association ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAIL NEWPORT ↗
- Who funds STONINGTON COMMUNITY ROWING INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSHED PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WATCH HILL LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS ASSOC ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds ROOT NS INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET HISPANICO OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION 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: Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Disosway 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.
- Root Ns Inc — 26% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% 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.
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