· Private foundation
J J Cooley Foundation Inc
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $2,000 |
| ADL | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS CENTER FOR THE CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL | $1,000 |
| BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| HORIZONS AT FOOTE SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CALVIN HILL DAYCARE | $500 |
| NEW HAVEN PRIDE CENTER | $500 |
| DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN | $500 |
| FORTUNOFF VIDEO ARCHIVE FOR HOLOCAUST TESTIMONIES | $500 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $500 |
| LONG WHARF THEATRE | $250 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $250 |
| ACLU OF CONNECTICUT | $250 |
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 (FY24–25, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
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 +64% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 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, 33% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- YNYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL6× · 2017–2025 · $8k · revenue +64%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE3× · 2017–2023 · $5k · revenue +78%
- TOTRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY6× · 2017–2025 · $3k · revenue +122%
Funded once
- SCSMILOW CANCER HOSPITALone grant, 2022 · $2k
- STSAVE THE SOUNDone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue +11%
- FCFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $500 · revenue +63%
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.
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…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Friends of nathaniel witherell is a not-for-profit organization committed to raising funds in support of the nathaniel witherell, the skilled nursing and short term rehabilitation center owned and operated by the town of greenwich, ct and…
We are a warm and vibrant senior community, infused with jewish values, where people live their best lives.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
New haven legal assistance association, inc.'s mission is to provide high quality legal services to individuals, families, and groups who are unable to obtain legal services because of limited income, age, disability, discrimination, and…
To maintain and promote civil liberties and civil rights within the state of ct, including but not limited to the freedoms of speech, press, association, and religion, and the right to due process of law.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
To build / maintain a strong and united jewish community in order to ensure the continuity of the jewish people. the federation is the central agency for meeting jewish needs and articulating jewish concerns in the capital region, in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Foodshare Inc and the most unlike its peers is Yale New Haven Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 35 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 THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OCEAN CLEANUP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS 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: Yale University · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · MFUND Inc · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 J J Cooley Foundation Inc 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.
- Fellowship Place Inc — 66% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Friends Center for Children Inc — 21% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 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.