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MJPM Foundation
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
- $10k–50k9 grants · $235k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $518k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation | $237,500 |
| Connecticut Land Conservation Trust | $120,000 |
| Connecticut Farmland Trust | $60,000 |
| Sharon Land Trust | $50,000 |
| Land Trust Alliance | $50,000 |
| Salisbury Winter Sports Association | $30,000 |
| The Hotchkiss School | $30,000 |
| Sharon Playhouse | $30,000 |
| American Farmland Trust | $25,000 |
| Sharon Housing Trust | $25,000 |
| Christ Church Episcopal | $25,000 |
| Housatonic Valley Association | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| Indian Mountain School | $20,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +67% since the first grant, against +43% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 3 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $85k 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
- HVHOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +110% · 27% of their budget
- SLSHARON LAND TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $750k · revenue +118% · 80% of their budget
- CFConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc8× · 2017–2024 · $540k · revenue +45% · 27% of their budget
Funded once
- PSPROJECT SAGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +43%
- HGHVA - Greenprint Partners Pledgeone grant, 2019 · $36k
- TCTRI-STATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue -22%
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.
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
Research Local History
The mission of the sharon communty development corporation is to drive community and economic development
Community trust
The primary exempt purpose is the preservation of natural resources in southbury, connecticut including associated water, woodlands, open spaces, and animal and planet life therein
Affordable housing for salisbury ct
Conserving the beauty, rural character, and natural diversity of the Town of Salem, CT
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.
The Scarborough Land Trust is a private, non-profit, community-based organization with a mission to conserve and steward land where natural and agricultural resources, scenic vistas, and historical significance offer unique value to the…
The mission of the Sharon Historical Society is to make all people aware of our history by linking the past with the present in order to inform them of our future. The Sharon Historical Society exists to inspire people's understanding that…
The Organization works with local landowners to permanently protect natural land and waters that define its community and enrich the quality of life by purchasing, managing, negotiating and developing conservations easements in the Upper…
To protect the open space in simsbury, connecticut through the acquisition of land and/or conservation easements.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sharon Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Save Sharon Hospital Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds INDIAN MOUNTAIN SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE SHARON HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SAGE INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SALISBURY WINTER SPORTS ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds TRI-STATE CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON HOUSING 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.
Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Peter and Helen Haje Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Walter and Phyllis Ann Borten Foundation · The Mortimer & Barbara Klaus Family Foundation · The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation · Low Road Foundation · The Rhoades-Robinson Fund · Easton Family Fund · The Hallingby Family Foundation Inc · Tilia Foundation · Ibm International 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 MJPM Foundation 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.
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- Tri-State Center for the Arts 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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Find your warmest path to MJPM Foundation 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.