· Private foundation
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.
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.
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
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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, $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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $460k · revenue +68%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation6× · 2020–2025 · $445k · revenue +55%
- HWHOMES WITH HOPE6× · 2020–2025 · $158k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- FRFAMILY REENTRY INCone grant, 2020 · $30k · revenue 0%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue +156%
- SCSEAMENS CHURCH INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2024 · $15k
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.
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…
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…
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.
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.
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
Helping persons with disabilities to find happiness in their own homes, in their personal relationships, and as contributing members of their community.
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…
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.
The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.
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
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…
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…
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.
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 0% 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.
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 2017–2026, 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.
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 Claremont McKenna College ↗
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- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds Christian Herald Association Inc ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ↗
- Who funds ORANGE COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Families Network of Western CT Inc ↗
- Who funds PALESTINE CHILDREN'S RELIEF FUND ↗
- Who funds STAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY REENTRY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR DISASTER PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF MIAMI INC ↗
- Who funds City Mission ↗
- Who funds HEART OF DINNER INC ↗
- Who funds LOVE146 INC ↗
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- Who funds DEMOCRACY FORWARD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
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- Who funds WESTPORT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds BETHESDA PROJECT ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗
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- Who funds GIVEDIRECTLY 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: 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.
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- Mercy Corps — 47% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Community Resources for Justice Inc — 34% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- The Discovery Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- 100 Black Men of Stamford Inc — 14% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Bridgeport Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 0% 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.