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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.

$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Education$104kHuman Services$58kAnimals$57kHealth$52kYouth Development$41kHousing & Shelter$15kCrime & Legal$15kPhilanthropy$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$3,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$242k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE CHAD A JACOBS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION$5,000
CIRCLE OF CARE$3,000
LAWYERS FOR CHILDREN$3,000
NEW HAVEN READS$3,000
HSSFF SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Bridgeport Rescue Mission: $7k → 9%Bridgeport Rescue Mission: $5k → 9%Hall Neighborhood House: $15k → 9%Hall Neighborhood House: $10k → 9%Hall Neighborhood House: $8k → 9%Hall Neighborhood House: $8k → 9%St Joseph Parenting Center: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WI
NY
MA
CT
MD
AL
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$288k · 17 repeat orgs$71k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
22

Total granted

$288k
$71k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

59%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CO
    CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC
    6× · 2018–2024 · $40k · revenue +292%
  • HN
    HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC
    4× · 2018–2021 · $40k · revenue +83%
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $29k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • CA
    CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +3%
  • KC
    KOLBE CATHERDRAL HIGH SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $8k
  • WB
    WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -48%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The Bridge Academy Inc

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…

Education
2
Bridgeport Hospital

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.

Health
3
Brooklyn Law School

To provide students with the knowledge, skills, ethical values needed for a career in law.

Education
4
The University of Bridgeport Inc

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…

Education
5
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
6
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
8
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
9
Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

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10
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Millbrook School

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.

Education
12
Brunswick School Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

24 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. 24 of the 39 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/24
Grantees still filing
16/24
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CT Audobon Society: $47,184 · OtherCT Audobon SocietyWakeman Boys Club: $33,000 · OtherWakeman Boys ClubCAROLINE HOUSE INC: $13,000 · OtherCAROLINE HOUSE INCKOLBE CATHERDRAL HIGH SCHOOL: $7,500 · OtherLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN: $5,500 · Other+16 more: $44,750 · Other+16 moreNEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC: $29,000 · EducationNEW BEGINNINGS FAMI…NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC: $20,500 · EducationNEW HAVEN READS COM…MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $5,000 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CENT…EMERSON COLLEGE: $2,500 · Education+4 more: $4,500 · Education+4 moreHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $39,500 · Human ServicesHALL NEIGHBORHOOD…BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE…SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesSAINT JOSEPH PARE…CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC: $39,500 · HealthCIRCLE OF CARE…BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,450 · HealthBRIDGEPORT HOS…CHAD A JACOBS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $15,500 · PhilanthropyKLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyMIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $9,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$150,934Education$61,500Human Services$56,500Health$45,950Philanthropy$24,500Environment$10,000Crime & Legal$9,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC: $39,500 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $39,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC: $29,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC: $20,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHAD A JACOBS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $15,500 over 2y, 25% of budgetCAROLINE HOUSE INC: $13,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLAWYERS FOR CHILDREN INC: $9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $6,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSTAMFORD PEACE YOUTH FOUNDATION INC: $2,994 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetEMERSON COLLEGE: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetTrustees of Tufts College: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION OF FAIRFIELD: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSouthern Methodist University: $750 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…Peoples United Commun…The Inner-City Founda…The Near and Far Asso…William Caspar Graust…Ernest and Joan Trefz…The Petit Family Foun…Hatfield FundElizabeth M Pfriem Fo…The John and Ethel Ka…Tauck Family Foundati…Equitable Foundation …
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT29.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization John Patrick Flanagan Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from John Patrick Flanagan Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to John Patrick Flanagan Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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