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Howard Archdeacon Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 87% of HOWARD ARCHDEACON 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.

02FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k17 grants · $40k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OPERATION SHOE BOX$10,000
LAKE DEATON METHODIST CHURCH$8,000
HALIFAX ANIMAL SHELTER$5,000
OPERATION SHOE BOX$5,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$3,000
SALVATION ARMY$3,000
OPERATION SHOE BOX$3,000
LAKE DEATON METHODIST CHURCH$3,000
LAKE DEATON METHODIST CHURCH$2,000
OPERATION SHOE BOX$2,000
VNA HOSPICE FOUNDATION$1,000
JOE GRASSINO FOUNDATION$1,000
AMERICAN CANCER$1,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL$1,000
Individual grant recipient$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.

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Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $36k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%OPEN GATE-INC: $1k → 9%OPERATION SHOE BOX: $10k → 16%OPERATION SHOEBOX: $7k → 16%OPERATION SHOE BOX: $5k → 16%OPERATION SHOE BOX: $3k → 16%OPERATION SHOEBOX: $2k → 16%OPERATION SHOE BOX: $2k → 16%OPERATION SHOEBOX: $2k → 16%OPERATION SHOEBOX: $2k → 16%RESILIANCY CENTER OF NEWTOWN: $1k → 9%REGIONAL HOSPICE OF WESTERN CT: $500 → 9%REGIONAL HOSPICE OF WESTERN CT: $500 → 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

NY
SD
NJ
CT
WV
VA
TN
FL

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.

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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$344k · 28 repeat orgs$57k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
30

Total granted

$344k
$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

11%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionPhilanthropyPublic BenefitHealthOther

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

  • NU
    NEWTOWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH
    5× · 2017–2021 · $63k
  • OS
    OPERATION SHOEBOX USA INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $33k · revenue -8%
  • LD
    LAKE DEATON METHODIST CHURCH
    3× · 2022–2024 · $29k

Funded once

  • ST
    SAVE THE PAWS RESCUE SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · $12k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2017 · $4k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

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.

1
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…

Animals
2
Petpals of Southern New Jersey Inc

To provide assistancve in caring for the companion animals of people living with terminal or chronic illnesses as well as financially needy senior citizens.

Community Improvement
3
Helping Hounds Dog Rescue Inc

Helping hounds dog rescue provides a compassionate approach to dog rescue by matching homeless dogs from overcrowded shelter systems with loving homes.

Animals
4
Paws of War Inc

To rescue, train and place shelter dogs to serve and provide independence to our veterans & first responders that suffer the traumatic effects of war, and provide essential and supportive services to our heroes in need.

Animals
5
First Responder Therapy Dogs

We lead the way in addressing the mental health needs of first responders by providing emotional support using therapy dogs.

Public Benefit
6
Alpha Bravo Canine

Helping veterans with ptsd and traumatic brain injuries regain quality of life using service dogs.

Human Services
7
Buddy's Second Chance Rescue Inc

To save the lives of neglected, abused and unwanted animals until permanent caring homes can be found.

Human Services
8
Canine Helpers for the Handicapped Inc

To unite deserving people with highly trained, disability specific dogs in order to achieve a high degree of independence for the clients.

9
Ct Dog Gone Recovery Inc

The mission of ct dog gone recovery is to reunite owners with their lost dogs.

Animals
10
Forever Home Rescue New England Inc

Forever home rescue new england, inc is an all-volunteer, shelterless rescue group whose mission is to find loving forever homes for the dogs they rescue.

Animals
11
Helping Paws Inc

Helping paws, inc. furthers people's independence and quality of life through the use of assistance dogs.

Human Services
12
Canine Angels Inc

To rescue dogs from our local humane societies train them to become working service dogs and place them with local disabled veterans first responders and autistic children to improve their lives. Our dogs are trained to mitigate both…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Shoebox Usa Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Jimmy Miller Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 65 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEWTOWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCH — $62,914 · OtherNEWTOWN UNITED METHODIST CHURCHLAKE DEATON METHODIST CHURCH — $28,900 · OtherLAKE DEATON METHODIST CHURCHVHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $27,000 · OtherVHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCUS COAST GUARD FOUNDATION — $25,000 · OtherUS COAST GUARD FOUNDATIONNEWTOWN SENIOR CENTER — $20,700 · OtherNEWTOWN SENIOR CENTERMISCELLANEOUS UNDER 500 — $13,077 · OtherBUILDING HOPE — $12,500 · OtherTBICO — $12,250 · OtherSAVE THE PAWS RESCUE SERVICES — $12,000 · OtherNEWTWON AMBULANCE ASSOC — $12,000 · Other+43 more — $122,005 · Other+43 moreOPERATION SHOEBOX USA INC — $33,000 · Human ServicesOPERATION …+3 more — $3,200 · Human Services+3 moreHALIFAX HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $10,000 · AnimalsPETS ALIVE INC — $2,500 · AnimalsFAITH FOOD PANTRY — $1,000 · Food & NutritionTAKE THE LEAD INC — $500 · Food & NutritionTHE JOE GARASSINO FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · PhilanthropyFRIENDS OF JIMMY MILLER INC — $500 · PhilanthropyPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $500 · Public BenefitPediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation Inc — $500 · Health
Other$348,346Human Services$36,200Animals$12,500Food & Nutrition$1,500Philanthropy$1,500Public Benefit$500Health$500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPERATION SHOEBOX USA INC — $33,000 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetHALIFAX HUMANE SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Adventure Center — $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESILIENCY CENTER OF NEWTOWN — $1,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOPENGATE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAITH FOOD PANTRY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetREGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE JOE GARASSINO FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNewtown Lions Club Inc — $600 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF JIMMY MILLER INC — $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPAWS FOR PURPLE HEARTS — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPediatric Hydrocephalus Foundation Inc — $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAKE THE LEAD INC — $500 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.

  • Who funds OPERATION SHOEBOX USA INC
  • Who funds VHA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HALIFAX HUMANE SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds PETS ALIVE INC
  • Who funds Children's Adventure Center
  • Who funds RESILIENCY CENTER OF NEWTOWN
  • Who funds OPENGATE INC
  • Who funds FAITH FOOD PANTRY

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.

The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.1× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Howard Archdeacon 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 · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc17% of income from government
  • Children's Adventure Center3% of income from government
  • Halifax Humane Society Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
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 65 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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