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Marion & Walter Minton Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k40 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $103k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE KERNOCHAM CTR FOR LAW MEDIA & A | $15,000 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
| THE HOCKADAY SCHOOL | $13,000 |
| ST MARGARET'S EPISCOPAL SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS | $10,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $10,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF N FLORIDA | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY HOSPICE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| THE COLUMBIA PUBLISHING COURSE | $9,662 |
| CITY YEAR BOSTON | $8,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HARTFORD | $5,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| DALLAS AREA HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $5,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTOOD OF GREATER TEXAS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–22, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +41% since the first grant, against -9% for the ones you funded once.
56 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 12 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $39k 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
GROTON SCHOOL8× · 2017–2025 · $63k · revenue +21%- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD8× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +12%
- HSHOCKADAY SCHOOL7× · 2019–2025 · $49k · revenue +26%
Funded once
MARCH OF DIMES INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -41%- 88000one grant, 2019 · $8k
- JDJUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION OF NYone grant, 2017 · $8k
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Life You Can Save. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 59 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 13% 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.
48 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. 48 of the 97 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 GROTON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds HOCKADAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ST MARK'S SCHOOL OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds RENBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UCLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF GREATER TEXAS INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED TO LEARN ↗
- Who funds CHOC FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Indiana University Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE LAMPLIGHTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds NORTH TEXAS FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds St Anne School ↗
- Who funds DALLAS CHILDREN'S ADVOCACY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds ST PAUL'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
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: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Hoblitzelle Foundation · Hillcrest Foundation · United Way of Metropolitan Dallas Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Texas Instruments Foundation · The Dallas Foundation · Orange County Community 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 Marion & Walter Minton 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.
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Williams 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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