· Private foundation
Michaels Family Foundation Inc
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRFIELD GIVING INC | $5,000 |
| EASTON COMMUNITY CENTER | $1,000 |
| NORWALK SENIOR CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC | $1,000 |
| MS SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| FACETS 2025 JEWELERS FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| PAWS | $1,000 |
| ALZHEIMERS FOUNDATION | $103 |
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 (FY17–25, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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 +46% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 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, 18% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +46%
- CCCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER2× · 2019–2020 · $13k · revenue +62%
- CACONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS INC2× · 2021–2022 · $11k · revenue +107%
Funded once
UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEFgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +47%- BHBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION NORMA PFRIEM BREAST CENTERone grant, 2018 · $5k
- CACT ASSOCIATION OF SECONDARY SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 children's hospital of philadelphia, the oldest hospital in the united states dedicated exclusively to pediatrics, strives to be the world leader in the advancement of health care for children by integrating excellent patient care,…
Organization's mission to improve health outcomes for children; be a leader in creating innovative solutions to pediatric healthcare problems; and excel in care, advocacy, research. as the nation's children's hospital, the mission of…
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.
The mission of children's cancer cause is to champion policies and programs that improve the lives of children with cancer and survivors.
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
Leadership in the prevention, treatment, and cure of cancer through excellence, vision and cost effectiveness in patient care, outreach programs, research, and education.
We champion the health needs of children and families. we are committed to improving children's health by providing the highest-quality, family centered care, advanced through research and education.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION
Curesearch's mission is to fund & support targeted & innovative cancer research with measurable results, & to be the authoritative source of information & resources for all those affected by children's cancer. see schedule o for…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ronald Mcdonald House At the Maria Fareri Children's Hospital Inc and the most unlike its peers is Seven Angels Theatre 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 35 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 54 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 MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION OF SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds MR MO PROJECT SENIOR DOG RESCUE ↗
- Who funds ALAQUA ANIMAL REFUGE INC ↗
- Who funds MID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds EASTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CUMACECHO INC ↗
- Who funds Flying Fur Animal Rescue ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds Seven Angels Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds NORWALK SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Esperanza En Escalante Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PEDIATRIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TU NIDITO CHILDREN AND FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
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 · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
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 Michaels Family Foundation 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.
- Team Inc — 84% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Cumacecho Inc — 25% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley — 19% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Mcgivney Community Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Association of Schools Inc — 0% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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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