· Private foundation
MFUND 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k40 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Velodrome Development Foundation | $81,800 |
| CCAP CT Cycling Advancement Program | $10,250 |
| CONNECTICUT FARMLAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| (LEAP) LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS | $10,000 |
| JFK Memorial Library | $5,000 |
| Internation Festival of Arts & Ideas | $5,000 |
| Cornell Scott Hill Health Center | $5,000 |
| Anthony Trust Association | $5,000 |
| Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen | $2,500 |
| Common Ground High School | $2,500 |
| Orchestra New England | $2,093 |
| Star Track Cycling | $2,058 |
| Guilford Interfaith Volunteers | $2,000 |
| THE LEGACY THEATRE | $2,000 |
| Shoreline Arts Alliance | $1,627 |
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 (FY17–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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 +34% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
63 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- CFConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc7× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +45%
- TATHE ANTHONY TRUST ASSOCIATION6× · 2017–2024 · $32k · revenue +136%
- CSCITY SEED INC8× · 2017–2024 · $30k · revenue +349%
Funded once
- CGCommon Groundone grant, 2017 · $11k
- FFlywaysone grant, 2019 · $10k
- MFMUSIC FOR THE EARTH INCone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -54%
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…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.
The greenwich tree conservancy is open to all interested citizens, governed by a board and advised by an advisory board. it was created to preserve and enhance the tree and forest resources of greenwich, ct to benefit the community, its…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
Conserving the land. connecting the community. greenwich land trust conserves open space, connects our community with the natural world, and inspires the next generation of conservationists. the land trust permanently protects and cares…
Dutchess land conservancy (dlc) is dedicated to preserving the scenic, agricultural and environmental resources of dutchess county, new york, and the surrounding area. dlc, as a private non-profit land conservation organization, carries…
To promote, for the benefit of the general public, the conservation of land and water natural resources principally in, but not limited to, the town of kent, connecticut.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The central new york land trust seeks to preserve and protect natural areas in order to provide our communities clean water, clean air, wildlife habitat, and a chance to connect with the land.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Ecology Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shoreline Greenway Trail Inc. 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 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 2% 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.
71 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. 71 of the 114 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 VELODROME DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ANTHONY TRUST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CITY SEED INC ↗
- Who funds CT CYCLING ADVANCEMENT PROGRAMINC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) ↗
- Who funds HAVENS HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR THE EARTH INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Star Track Cycling Inc ↗
- Who funds THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA GUILFORD INTERFAITH VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC ↗
- Who funds ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Community Soup Kitchen Incorporated ↗
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 Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Yale University · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Seedlings Foundation · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · The Stoddard Family Foundation · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · Connecticut Humanities Council 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 MFUND 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.
- City Seed Inc — 87% of income from government
- Shoreline Greenway Trail Inc — 64% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Vista Life Innovations Inc — 33% of income from government
- Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
- Massaro Community Farm Inc — 27% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- Shoreline Arts Alliance Inc — 14% of income from government
- Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc) — 11% of income from government
- New Haven Ecology Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Neighborhood Music School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Guilford Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Eli Whitney Museum 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.
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