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John Patrick Flanagan Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHAD A JACOBS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NEW HAVEN READS | $3,000 |
| CIRCLE OF CARE | $3,000 |
| LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN | $3,000 |
| HSSFF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–21, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% 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.
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.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- COCIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC6× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +292%
- HNHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +83%
- NBNEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC3× · 2019–2022 · $29k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CACONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
- KCKOLBE CATHERDRAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2022 · $8k
- WBWAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORPone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -48%
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 bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
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 provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.
The university promotes academic excellence, personal responsibility and commitment to service. distinctive curricula in an international, culturally diverse supportive learning environment prepare graduates for life and leadership in an…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
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…
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
In a community where every student is known and needed, millbrook prepares its students for college and lives of meaning and consequence by instilling the values of respect, integrity, service, stewardship, and curiosity.
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Circle of Care for Families of Children With Cancer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
24 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. 24 of the 39 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 CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CHAD A JACOBS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP ↗
- Who funds KLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD PEACE YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT YOUTH LACROSSE INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds University of New Haven ↗
- Who funds MYTEAM TRIUMPH - CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds THE HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF FAIRFIELD ↗
- Who funds Southern Methodist University ↗
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 · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · The Petit Family Foundation Inc · Hatfield Fund · Elizabeth M Pfriem Foundation · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · Tauck Family Foundation · Equitable Foundation Inc
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 John Patrick Flanagan 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.
- Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp — 11% of income from government
- Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Emerson College — 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.
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