· Private foundation
Mitchell D Phaiah Foundation 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 $10k36 grants · $118k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JOLLY JOHNS KEEP YOU TRUCKING FUND | $20,000 |
| QVCC FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| CHAPEL AND YORK US FOUNDATION | $11,011 |
| DEARY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| INTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES OF PUTNAM | $7,120 |
| DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY | $7,108 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHENS OF NE CT | $7,096 |
| FRIENDS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY | $7,084 |
| PROJECT PIN FOOD PANTRY | $7,072 |
| PAMS FOUNDATION | $6,144 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,132 |
| TEEG | $6,060 |
| QUINEBAUG VALLEY SENIOR CTR | $6,048 |
| CT HUMANE SOCIETY | $6,036 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,024 |
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 (FY17–24, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 14% 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.
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.
48 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 15 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- QFQVCC FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +3%
- CHCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +81%
- QVQUINEBAUG VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2018 · $30k
- PPPET PALS NORTHEASTone grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +16%
- NSNEW STORY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +87%
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.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
HUMANE WORLD FOR ANIMALS INTERNATIONAL, FKA HUMANE SOCIETY INTERNATIONAL (HSI), works around the globe to promote the human-animal bond, rescue and protect dogs and cats, improve farm animal welfare, protect wildlife, promote animal-free…
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
To prevent cruelty to animals, we promote enacting and enforcing good public policies. enacting good laws depends upon electing good lawmakers, and we remind voters which candidates care about and support animal issues.
To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.
Pet animal welfare society of ct (paws), established in 1962, is a no-kill animal rescue shelter dedicated to the rescue and adoption of our community's homeless and abused dogs and cats. paws efforts are focused on three critical needs:…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
World animal protection is a global organization working to end factory farming and wildlife exploitation. we expose cruel systems, promote animal-friendly alternatives, and influence policy change. for over 75 years, we've been rewriting…
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Deary Memorial Foundation 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 33 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
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 124 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 QVCC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds QUINEBAUG VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE DEARY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds Daily Bread An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES OF PUTNAM ↗
- Who funds DOROBO FUND FOR TANZANIA INC ↗
- Who funds PAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KOPELION INC ↗
- Who funds PET PALS NORTHEAST ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds NEW STORY INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds WYNDHAM LAND TRUST INC ↗
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.
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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 Mitchell D Phaiah 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.
- Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
- Joslin Diabetes Center Inc — 35% of income from government
- Wyndham Land Trust Inc — 1% 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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