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E Merritt McDonough Charitable Foundation C/O Cbiz Advisors LLC at a glance

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E Merritt McDonough Charitable Foundation C/O Cbiz Advisors LLC

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.

$10k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$6k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0193% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$11kHuman Services$11kReligion$8kYouth Development$4kArts & Culture$2kPhilanthropy$2kCommunity Improvement$1kAnimals$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$8k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STACHE STRONG FOUNDATION$6,000
TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS$1,500
EASTERSEALS$1,000
GAYLORD HOSPITAL$500
DIOCESE OF PALM BEACH$500
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$150
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $500) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FIRMAMENT FOUNDATION INC: $500 → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$31k · 14 repeat orgs$12k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +18% for those funded once.

14 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
18

Total granted

$31k
$11k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+18%

Still filing today

29%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureAnimalsHuman ServicesEducationRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • GH
    Gaylord Hospital INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $2k · revenue +14%
  • ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $990 · revenue +74%
  • TH
    THE HUNDRED CLUB OF CONNECTICUTINC
    2× · 2020–2021 · $500 · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • JM
    JUPITER MEDICAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • MH
    MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +1%
  • BH
    BRISTOL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2024 · $1k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Greenwich Hospital

To provide healthcare services.

Health
2
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
3
New York Genome Center Inc

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.

Health
4
Community Health Center Inc

Community health center (chc) is building a world class primary care organization, improving health outcomes and building healthier communities through clinical excellence, research and innovation, and training the next generation. chc is…

Health
5
Yale New Haven Hospital

The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.

Health
6
Connecticut Children's Medical Center

Connecticut children's medical center is dedicated to improving the physical and emotional health of children through family-centered care, research, education and advocacy. we embrace discovery, teamwork, integrity and excellence in all…

Health
7
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
8
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
9
Bridgeport Hospital

To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.

Health
10
Family Centers Inc

Family centers inc. is a non-stock, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to empower children, adults, families and communities to realize their potential. for more information, see schedule o.

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11
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
12
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Connecticut Inc; the most unlike its peers is Tragedy Assistance Program for Survivors 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

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STACHE STRONG FOUNDATION: $8,500 · OtherSTACHE STRONG FOUNDATIONEASTERSEALS: $4,000 · OtherEASTERSEALSTHE ORDER OF MALTA FEDERAL ASSOCIATION: $3,350 · OtherTHE ORDER OF MALTA FEDERAL ASSOCIATIONSOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA FEDERAL ASSOCIATION USA: $3,300 · OtherSOVEREIGN MILITARY ORDER OF MALTA FEDERAL ASSOCIATION USATHE HEBREW CENTER FOR HEALTH & REHABILITATION: $3,200 · OtherTHE HEBREW CENTER FOR HEALTH & REHABILITATIONSPECTRE FOUNDATION: $2,400 · OtherSPECTRE FOUNDATIONJUPITER MEDICAL FOUNDATION: $2,000 · OtherJUPITER MEDICAL FOUNDATIONTHE MASONIC CHARITY FUND: $1,500 · Other+15 more: $6,370 · Other+15 moreGaylord Hospital INC: $2,000 · HealthGaylord Hospi…TRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $1,500 · HealthTRAGEDY ASSIS…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $990 · HealthST JUDE CHILD…ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC: $350 · HealthISLAND HEALTH…MEDICAL AID TO HAITI INC: $350 · HealthMEDICAL AID T…MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureRESCUE DOGS ROCK INC: $1,000 · AnimalsThe Firmament Foundation Inc: $500 · Human ServicesJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD: $500 · PhilanthropyREACH PREP INC: $500 · Education
Other$34,620Health$5,190Arts & Culture$2,000Animals$1,000Human Services$500Philanthropy$500Education$500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGaylord Hospital INC: $2,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTRAGEDY ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SURVIVORS INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRESCUE DOGS ROCK INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CONNECTION FUND INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $990 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Firmament Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREACH PREP INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF CONNECTICUTINC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC: $350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICAL AID TO HAITI INC: $350 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WATERBURY: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS FLORIDA Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Aetna Foundation IncThe Robert & Margaret…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Aetna Foundation IncCT13.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization E Merritt McDonough Charitable Foundation C/O Cbiz Advisors LLC funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E Merritt McDonough Charitable Foundation C/O Cbiz Advisors LLC. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 6%
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Boys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury: 18% of income from government
  • Gaylord Hospital Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
  • The Connection Fund Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to E Merritt McDonough Charitable Foundation C/O Cbiz Advisors LLC 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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