· Private foundation
F Gerard McGrath 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $55k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACADEMY OF OUR LADY OF MERCY LAURALTON HALL | $55,000 |
| THE FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH NURSERY SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FAIRFIELD PREP | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–21, $10k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +69% since the first grant, against +40% for those funded once.
19 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 2 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, 13% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $65k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MSMUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC3× · 2018–2024 · $16k · revenue +87%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION2× · 2021–2023 · $12k · revenue +112%
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- MAMT ALVERNIA HIGH SCHOOL FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
- CUCOLGATE UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +40%
- AAAssociated Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heartone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue -9%
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
The corporation of saint mary's college, notre dame (saint mary's) is a catholic, residential, women's, liberal arts college offering undergraduate degrees and co-educational graduate programs. (continued in schedule o)
To develop a strong enduring class structure in order to further the interests, welfare, and educational purposes of Dartmouth college, for so long as the class is in existence and Dartmouth remains organized exclusively for…
Mcphs university prepares students for careers in health care through teaching, scholarship, research, professional service and community engagement.
Promote educational excellence, leadership, & service via a strong commitment to our students.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 31 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 University of Notre Dame du Lac ↗
- Who funds DARIEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HACKERS FOR HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Associated Alumnae and Alumni of the Sacred Heart ↗
- Who funds The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC ↗
- Who funds COTOCHESET HISTORIC PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Darien Community Association Inc ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization F Gerard McGrath Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from F Gerard McGrath Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated: 2% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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