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Elizabeth and Ihab Massoud Family Foundation

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.

$1.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
41
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$643k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of Elizabeth and Ihab Massoud Family Foundation’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.

02FY2025 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k17 grants · $64k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $332k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $321k
  • $250k+1 grant · $643k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CLAREMONT-MCKENNA COLLEGE$642,857
CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS$100,000
CHILDRENS HOSPITAL CORPORATION$100,000
CLAREMONT-MCKENNA COLLEGE$71,429
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC$50,000
PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF HARVARD COLLEGE$47,000
BRIDGEPORT NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST INC$35,000
HOMES WITH HOPE INC$30,000
CHRISTIAN HERALD ASSN INC$25,000
CITY MISSION$25,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC$20,000
PALESTINE CHILDRENS RELIEF FUND$20,000
BRIDGEPORT NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST INC$15,000
HEART OF DINNER INC$12,500
PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION$12,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $526k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%VICTIMS FIRST INC: $5k → 14%WOMENS REFUGEE COMMISSION INC: $3k → 17%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $75k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $10k → 17%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $75k → 9%COVENANT HOUSE: $5k → 17%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $50k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $35k → 9%INNOCENCE PROJECT INC: $13k → 17%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $75k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $45k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $9k → 9%LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $3k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $3k → 9%LIVEGIRL: $3k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN WESTPORT: $8k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN WESTPORT: $8k → 9%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT INC: $5k → 9%RACHS HOPE INC: $5k → 9%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT INC: $5k → 9%RACHS HOPE INC: $3k → 9%FAMILIES NETWORK OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $31k → 9%FAMILIES NETWORK OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $30k → 9%FAMILIES NETWORK OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $5k → 9%FAMILIES NETWORK OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $5k → 9%FAMILIES NETWORK OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $5k → 9%FAMILIES NETWORK OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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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.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 7% of Elizabeth and Ihab Massoud Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Elizabeth and Ihab Massoud Family Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your 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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$5.9M · 38 repeat orgs$284k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

38 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

38
27

Total granted

$5.9M
$219k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+8%

Still filing today

89%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
Human ServicesInternationalHealthEducationCrime & LegalHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $460k · revenue +68%
  • CH
    Children's Hospital Corporation
    6× · 2020–2025 · $445k · revenue +55%
  • HW
    HOMES WITH HOPE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $158k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • FR
    FAMILY REENTRY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INCgraduated
    one grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +156%
  • SC
    SEAMENS CHURCH INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2024 · $15k

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

04Your 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.

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Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
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
Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.

Crime & Legal
4
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
5
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
6
Community Systems Support and Management Services Inc

Helping persons with disabilities to find happiness in their own homes, in their personal relationships, and as contributing members of their community.

Health
7
The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc

The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…

Community Improvement
8
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
9
The Connecticut Project Inc

The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.

Community Improvement
10
Digital Harbor Foundation

Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good

Education
11
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
12
Search for Change Inc

Dedicated to improving the quality of life and increasing the self sufficiency of individuals with emotional, social and economic barriers. this is accomplished by providing direct support and assistance needed to enable individuals to…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation. 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 backsteadyCommunity FoundationsSenior Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Immigrant Worker SupportYouth Development CentersPolicy Research and AdvocacyCancer Support ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …United Way AffiliatesYouth Sports ProgramsIndependent K-12 SchoolsDomestic Violence ServicesFood Banks and PantriesYmca Youth DevelopmentPublic Library OperationsSchool District FoundationsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…
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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%3%<5yr14%9%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%19%20–35yr13%24%35–55yr16%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%1%10–20yr16%6%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%69%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/77
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,488

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.

05the grantee network

72 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 20172026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 72 of the 79 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
70/72
Grantees still filing
44/72
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Claremont McKenna College — $2,857,144 · OtherClaremont McKenna CollegeHOMES WITH HOPE — $158,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC — $137,650 · Other+36 more — $818,605 · Other+36 moreBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC — $502,870 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT R…Families Network of Western CT Inc — $78,500 · Human ServicesFamilies Net…City Mission — $27,000 · Human Services+10 more — $86,666 · Human Services+10 moreHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $460,200 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FO…BRIDGEPORT NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST — $107,500 · Housing & ShelterBRIDGEPORT…+2 more — $17,500 · Housing & ShelterChildren's Hospital Corporation — $445,000 · Health+6 more — $42,500 · HealthChristian Herald Association Inc — $266,999 · ReligionPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $147,000 · EducationSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC — $57,000 · EducationWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $10,000 · Education+3 more — $12,500 · EducationPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $68,000 · InternationalHUMAN APPEAL — $10,000 · InternationalACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $10,000 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $10,000 · InternationalSUDAN RELIEF FUND INC — $5,000 · InternationalMercy Corps — $5,000 · InternationalUNITED PALESTINIAN APPEAL INC — $5,000 · International+1 more — $3,500 · International
Other$3,971,399Human Services$695,036Housing & Shelter$585,200Health$487,500Religion$266,999Education$246,500International$116,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetClaremont McKenna College — $2,857,144 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC — $502,870 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $460,200 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetChildren's Hospital Corporation — $445,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc — $266,999 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE — $158,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $147,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC — $137,650 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBRIDGEPORT NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST — $107,500 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $105,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN — $95,405 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies Network of Western CT Inc — $78,500 over 5y, 12% of budgetPALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND — $68,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC — $57,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC — $49,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC — $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES — $37,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC — $35,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY REENTRY INC — $30,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetCENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC — $29,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCity Mission — $27,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetHEART OF DINNER INC — $25,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLOVE146 INC — $21,400 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION — $20,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC — $16,666 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWESTPORT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC — $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBETHESDA PROJECT — $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $12,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIVEDIRECTLY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMyositis Support and Understanding Association Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetACTION AGAINST HUNGER - USA — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSocial Impact Partners Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRACH'S HOPE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVictims First Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Corps — $5,000 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 Community Foundation IncCT39.8× affinity18 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 Near and Far Association Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Peoples United Community 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 Elizabeth and Ihab Massoud Family Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 150%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 15%
  • LOVE146 Inc49% of income from government
  • Mercy Corps47% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc42% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services37% of income from government
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc37% of income from government
  • Community Resources for Justice Inc34% of income from government
  • Lifebridge Community Services Inc32% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope28% of income from government
  • The Discovery Museum Inc15% of income from government
  • Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc15% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc14% of income from government
  • 100 Black Men of Stamford Inc14% of income from government
  • Children's Hospital Corporation10% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College7% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc5% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc4% of income from government
  • Bridgeport Hospital0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

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 79 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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