· Private foundation
Maurice Goodman Foundation Inc Tr
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k44 grants · $117k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NORWALK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION | $17,000 |
| THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC | $10,000 |
| NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CONGREGATION BETH EL | $10,000 |
| TEMPLE SHALOM (OF NORWALK) | $10,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $9,500 |
| LOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSION MUSEUM | $7,500 |
| PERSON TO PERSON INC | $7,000 |
| THE NORWALK SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC | $7,000 |
| THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC | $6,500 |
| NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN | $5,000 |
| AMERICARES FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| FRIENDS OF THE WILTON LIBRARY | $4,000 |
| ROTON MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $38k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 7% 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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
47 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 8 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $60k · revenue +71%
- NPNORWALK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +144%
- LMLOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSION MUSEUM OF NORWALK INC6× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +996%
Funded once
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue +3%
- WSWILKERSON SCHOLARSHIP FUND LLCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue -99% · 100% of their budget
- N2Norwalk 20 Incone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +52%
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.
To maintain the research, preservation and promotion of norwalk history.
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
TO ENCOURAGE THE PRESERVATION OF OPEN SPACE IN NORFOLK, CT AND surrounding communities FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AND TO SERVE AS A VEHICLE FOR managing and maintaining LAND THAT HAS BEEN SET ASIDE FOR OPEN SPACE PURPOSES: (1) Land easements,…
To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed
Free Public Library serving the Town of Norfolk Connecticut as well as the surrounding area.
The purpose of the association is to provide for the protection and general welfare of the residents and owners of real property in the northeastern section of greenwich, connecticut, including the preservation of the residential character…
Promotion and support of commercial & civic awareness and activities in the greater norwalk area.
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…
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
To conserve and steward long island's natural and historic lands, waters and environmental resources. through education, outreach and volunteerism, we connect people to nature and inspire a community conservation ethic.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Americares Free Clinics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wilkerson Scholarship Fund Llc. 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 40 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
42 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. 42 of the 59 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 NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LOCKWOOD-MATHEWS MANSION MUSEUM OF NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK TREE ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY BENEFIT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc ↗
- Who funds NORWALK SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
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 · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · Konstantin Family 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 Maurice Goodman Foundation Inc 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.
- Star Inc - Lighting the Way — 88% of income from government
- Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum of Norwalk Inc — 43% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Friends of Ambler Farm Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Crystal Theatre Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 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.