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Magraw a F-Marguerite Magraw Tr

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
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$291k
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$2,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT$4,500
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$3,500
WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY$3,500
JOHNSON & WALES$3,500
SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE$3,500
SOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY$3,000
COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY$3,000
WILKES UNIVERSITY$2,500
LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE$2,500
BRYANT UNIVERSITY$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN$2,000
QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY$2,000
CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIV$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF MAINE$1,500
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD$1,500
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 76% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%ENDICOTT COLLEGE: $4k → 10%ASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY: $5k → 11%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $4k → 17%GETTYSBURG COLLEGE: $4k → 9%LEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE: $3k → 11%PENN STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 16%COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE: $4k → 14%NEW YORK UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 13%EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIV: $4k → 12%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $8k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $4k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $8k → 11%EASTERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY: $3k → 7%EMMANUEL COLLEGE: $3k → 16%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $4k → 15%WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE: $4k → 11%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $4k → 17%Manhattan College: $4k → 28%EMBRY RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIV: $3k → 12%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $5k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $3k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $6k → 11%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $6k → 12%PROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $3k → 14%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $4k → 15%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $5k → 11%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%UNIVERSITY OF MAINE: $4k → 15%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $5k → 11%QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%Johnson & Wales University: $4k → 14%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $4k → 17%SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $3k → 11%JOHNSON & WALES: $4k → 14%SPRINGFIELD COLLEGE: $4k → 17%UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT: $3k → 11%Springfield College: $4k → 17%WESTERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY: $3k → 17%WESTERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 9%SOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY: $3k → 12%FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY: $4k → 9%Southern CT State University: $3k → 12%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

ME
NH
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
WV
SC
DC
GA
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$244k · 32 repeat orgs$47k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
26

Total granted

$244k
$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+17%

Still filing today

72%
58%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

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

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

  • SH
    SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED
    6× · 2017–2024 · $23k · revenue +84%
  • QU
    QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +39%
  • WN
    WESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2024 · $14k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • MU
    Manhattan University
    one grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue -7%
  • SALVE REGINA UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +52%
  • SM
    Southern Maine Community College
    one grant, 2023 · $2k

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
St Marys University of Minnesota

Enriched by the lasallian catholic heritage, saint mary's university of minnesota awakens, nurtures, and empowers learners to ethical lives of service and leadership.

Education
2
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
3
Wake Forest University

Wake Forest University, a 501(c)(3) institution of higher education, is dedicated to the pursuit of excellence in the liberal arts and in graduate and professional education. The organization is comprised of seven constituent parts: Wake…

Education
4
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
5
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
6
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
7
Monmouth University Inc

See schedule omonmouth university is a comprehensive institution of higher education committed to excellence and integrity in teaching, scholarship and service. through its offerings in liberal arts, sciences, and professional programs,…

Education
8
Roger Williams University

At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…

Education
9
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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10
Georgian Court University

Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.

Education
11
Benedictine College

Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.

Education
12
Lewis & Clark College

Lewis & clark is a premier private higher education institution offering an exceptional education in an inclusive environment. by fostering critical thinking, innovation, creativity, civic engagement, and leadership, both inside and…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University and the most unlike its peers is Thomas Jefferson University. 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 80 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%7%20–35yr13%7%35–55yr16%79%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%5%20–35yr13%3%35–55yr16%84%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/44
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,521

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 64 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
35/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $23,000 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATEDQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $15,500 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY — $13,500 · EducationWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITYUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $12,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORDSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE — $11,500 · EducationSPRINGFIELD COLLEGEJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · EducationFairfield University — $7,000 · EducationENDICOTT COLLEGE — $7,000 · EducationTHE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE — $7,000 · EducationEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC — $6,500 · Education+32 more — $80,000 · Education+32 moreUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT — $27,500 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUTUNIVERSITY OF MAINE — $12,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF MAINEWESTERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY — $9,500 · OtherWESTERN CT STATE UNIVERSITYPENN STATE UNIVERSITY — $7,500 · OtherPENN STATE UNIVERSITYCoastal Carolina University — $7,000 · OtherCoastal Carolina UniversitySOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY — $5,500 · OtherSOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITYWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $5,500 · OtherWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTEEASTERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY — $3,500 · OtherCENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIV — $3,500 · Other+13 more — $18,500 · Other+13 more
Education$190,500Other$100,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $23,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY — $15,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWESTERN NEW ENGLAND UNIVERSITY — $13,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $12,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD COLLEGE — $11,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJOHNSON & WALES UNIVERSITY — $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENDICOTT COLLEGE — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COLLEGE OF SAINT ROSE — $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC — $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGETTYSBURG COLLEGE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY — $5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetASSUMPTION UNIVERSITY — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven — $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE — $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH — $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetManhattan University — $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York University — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEMMANUEL UNIVERSITY INC — $3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFranklin Pierce University — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOBART AND WILLIAM SMITH COLLEGES — $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEBANON VALLEY COLLEGE — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVE REGINA UNIVERSITY — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHOMAS JEFFERSON UNIVERSITY — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRensselaer Polytechnic Institute — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY NEW YORK — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUTICA UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBENTLEY UNIVERSITY — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDICKINSON COLLEGE — $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIONA UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOFSTRA UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALLEGHENY COLLEGE — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFordham University — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSIENA UNIVERSITY — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE — $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.

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.

National Collegiate A…Miller Ua Morey & Hel…Ibm International Fou…Verizon FoundationThe Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
National Collegiate Athletic AssociationIN15.6× affinity5 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: National Collegiate Athletic Association · Miller Ua Morey & Helen Schol · Ibm International Foundation · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Magraw a F-Marguerite Magraw Tr 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.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 6% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 2% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 2% of income from government
  • University of New Haven — 1% of income from government
  • Albertus Magnus College — 1% of income from government
  • University of Saint Joseph — 1% of income from government
  • University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
  • Assumption University — 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
  • Western New England University — 0% of income from government
  • Springfield College — 0% of income from government
  • Endicott College — 0% of income from government
  • Bentley University — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
3report 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, FY20–25

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 64 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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