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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.

$171k
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$20k
Largest
01What it funds
0184% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Food & Nutrition$327kAnimals$222kHuman Services$150kEducation$118kPhilanthropy$110kEnvironment$100kReligion$96kInternational$69kOther$0
02FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k36 grants · $118k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $53k
$5,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%NEW STORY: $6k → 10%MIDWEST FOOD BANK: $1k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
OR
IA
CT
RI
CA
MO
VA
AZ
AR
TN
NC
DC
HI
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.4M · 48 repeat orgs$168k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
59

Total granted

$1.4M
$142k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+44%

Still filing today

44%
27%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHealthEnvironmentPhilanthropyFood & NutritionInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • QF
    QVCC FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $99k · revenue +3%
  • CH
    CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · $90k · revenue +81%
  • QV
    QUINEBAUG VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $86k · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2018 · $30k
  • PP
    PET PALS NORTHEAST
    one grant, 2020 · $9k · revenue +16%
  • NS
    NEW STORY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +87%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
2
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
3
Humane World for Animals International

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…

Animals
4
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
5
Animal Wellness Action

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.

Human Services
6
Humane World Action Fund

To pass animal protection laws, educate the public, and support humane candidates for office.

Animals
7
Pet Animal Welfare Society of Connecticut Inc

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:…

Animals
8
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
9
Global Animal Partnership
Animals
10
World Animal Protection

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…

Animals
11
Animal Outlook Inc

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.

Animals
12
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

43 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
42/43
Grantees still filing
29/43
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JOLLY JOHNS KEEP YOU TRUCKING FUND: $110,150 · OtherJOLLY JOHNS KEEP YOU TRUCKING FUNDQVCC FOUNDATION INC: $99,000 · OtherQVCC FOUNDATION INCQUINEBAUG VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $85,580 · OtherQUINEBAUG VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INCIndividual grant recipient: $84,540 · OtherIndividual grant recipientST ALBANS CHURCH: $84,000 · OtherST ALBANS CHURCHTEEG: $64,600 · OtherTEEGNOVASTAR RESCUE: $60,523 · OtherNOVASTAR RESCUEPROJECT PIN FOOD PANTRY: $53,120 · OtherCOMMUNITY KITCHENS OF NE CT: $50,160 · Other+89 more: $352,878 · Other+89 moreCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $90,060 · AnimalsCONNECTICUT HU…BIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $51,000 · AnimalsBIG LIFE FOUND…Center for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $16,000 · AnimalsCenter for Ora…KOPELION INC: $12,978 · AnimalsKOPELION INCPET PALS NORTHEAST: $9,000 · AnimalsJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $7,000 · Animals+7 more: $11,200 · Animals+7 moreFRIENDS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY INC: $58,640 · Food & NutritionFRIENDS OF …Daily Bread An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc: $52,180 · Food & NutritionDaily Bread…INTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES OF PUTNAM: $50,200 · Food & NutritionINTERFAITH …THE DEARY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $13,513 · Philanthropy+3 more: $6,000 · PhilanthropyDOROBO FUND FOR TANZANIA INC: $29,802 · Housing & ShelterPAMS FOUNDATION INC: $19,240 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 · InternationalPARTNERS IN DEVELOPMENT INCORPORATED: $1,000 · InternationalTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Education
Other$1,044,551Animals$197,238Food & Nutrition$161,020Philanthropy$99,513Housing & Shelter$29,802International$28,240Education$15,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetQVCC FOUNDATION INC: $99,000 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $90,060 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetQUINEBAUG VALLEY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER INC: $85,580 over 8y, 13% of budgetTHE DEARY MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 8y, 88% of budgetFRIENDS OF ASSISI FOOD PANTRY INC: $58,640 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetDaily Bread An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc: $52,180 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetBIG LIFE FOUNDATION USA: $51,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetINTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES OF PUTNAM: $50,200 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetDOROBO FUND FOR TANZANIA INC: $29,802 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetPAMS FOUNDATION INC: $19,240 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCenter for Orangutan & Chimpanzee Conservation Inc: $16,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK US FOUNDATION INC: $13,513 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKOPELION INC: $12,978 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJANE GOODALL INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE RESEARCH EDUCATION AND CONSERVATION: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW STORY INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSMILE TRAIN INC: $5,200 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWYNDHAM LAND TRUST INC: $5,050 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSKY DOG SANCTUARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJOSLIN DIABETES CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT LIONS EYE RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEarth Island Institute Inc: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR CENTRAL AMERICAN EMPOWERMENT INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $2,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSPCA of Texas: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAWS - GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION AMERICA: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST BALDRICK'S FOUNDATION INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANINE COMPANIONS FOR INDEPENDENCE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE FOR PAWS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN WILD HORSE PRESERVATION CAMPAIGN: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN HUMANE ASSOCIATION: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Jewett City Savings Bank Foundation IncCT17.8× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewett City Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · The Putnam Area Foundation · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Network for Good · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Mitchell D Phaiah Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mitchell D Phaiah Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Mitchell D Phaiah Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 124 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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