· Private foundation
Early Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k38 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $44k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $13,500 |
| RIPRAP FRIENDS | $10,600 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| ST GEORGES SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,400 |
| SOUTH CAROLINA PUBLIC RADIO | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FRIENDS OF PRINCETON HOCKEY | $3,400 |
| LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN | $2,500 |
| HARVARD CLUB OF SOUTHERN CT | $2,500 |
| GEORGETOWN LAW SCHOOL | $2,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
- BTBREAKTHROUGH T1Dgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +27%
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 HAMPTON LIFEGUARD ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Early Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Early Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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