· Private foundation
Early Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| RIPRAP FRIENDS | $10,600 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ST GEORGES SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PRINCETON HOCKEY | $3,400 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| GEORGETOWN LAW SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| HARVARD CLUB OF SOUTHERN CT | $2,500 |
| DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN | $2,500 |
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 (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 67% 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.
62 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 29 since wound down; 9 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- THTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $58k · revenue +57%
The Trustees of Princeton University6× · 2020–2025 · $55k · revenue +51%- HCHARVARD CLUB OF SOUTHERN CT6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $10k
- ASAMERICAN SCHOOL AT HARTFORD FOR THE DEAFgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +47%
- LLLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMAone grant, 2024 · $1k
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.
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
We engage a diverse community of learners in a collaborative educational experience, preparing them for college success and a lifetime of meaningful engagement with the broader world.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of hampshire college is to foster a lifelong passion for learning, inquiry, and ethical citizenship that inspires students to contribute to knowledge, justice, and positive change in the world and, by doing so, to transform…
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trustees of the Lawrenceville School and the most unlike its peers is Halfway Home Rescue Inc. 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 40 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 89 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 RIPRAP FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds HARVARD CLUB OF SOUTHERN CT ↗
- Who funds SPRINGS FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON LIFEGUARD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds East Hampton CT Soccer Club Inc ↗
- Who funds CHARLESTON ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CITY AND COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Charleston Collegiate School ↗
- Who funds PRINCETON PROSPECT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REGIS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds The Peddie School ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Aldo Dedominicis Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Baird Foundation Inc · Carmax Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Early Family 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.
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- American School at Hartford for the Deaf — 32% of income from government
- Massaro Community Farm Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Regis College — 2% 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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