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MLE 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.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
82
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0198% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Arts & Culture$2.0MEducation$1.3MAnimals$1.3MEnvironment$1.2MReligion$936kHealth$619kHuman Services$296kRecreation & Sports$193kOther$0
02FY2025 · 82 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k32 grants · $129k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $834k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $215k
$10,000
Median grant
14
States reached
$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
New Canaan Town Players Inc$60,000
First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan$55,000
American Indian Education Fund$50,000
American Indian College$50,000
Connecticut Audubon Society$40,000
Save the Sound$40,000
Southwood County Historical Corporation$40,000
American Bird Conservancy$35,000
Audubon Connecticut$35,000
Hawaiian Mission House$32,500
Central Wisconsin Cultural Center$30,000
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardners Association$30,000
Fair Haven Camps$30,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation$30,000
International Crane Foundation$27,500
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Faith Hope and Love Foundation: $2k → 13%Faith Hope and Love Foundation: $1k → 13%Faith Hope and Love Foundation: $1k → 13%Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin: $10k → 10%Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin: $10k → 10%Veterans Outreach of Wisconsin: $10k → 10%Staying Put in New Canaan: $20k → 9%Staying Put in New Canaan: $20k → 9%Staying Put in New Canaan: $20k → 9%Staying Put in New Canaan: $20k → 9%Staying Put in New Canaan: $20k → 9%Staying Put in New Canaan: $3k → 9%Staying Put in New Canaan: $2k → 9%Staying Put in New Canaan: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
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PA
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CA
CO
VA
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HI
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$8.8M · 105 repeat orgs$125k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

105 repeat relationships — 79 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

105
16

Total granted

$8.8M
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+21%

Still filing today

70%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentAnimalsHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

  • ST
    SAVE THE SOUND
    9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +53%
  • AB
    American Bird Conservancy
    9× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +54%
  • TN
    THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • BI
    Beth Israel Congregation
    one grant, 2023 · $33k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • AS
    Aurora St Luke's Medical Center
    one grant, 2023 · $5k

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

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Eastern National

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.

Recreation & Sports
3
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

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…

Environment
4
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
5
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
6
Dutchess Land Conservancy Inc

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…

Environment
7
New York League of Conservation Voters

See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…

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8
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
9
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
10
The Adirondack Council Inc

The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…

Environment
11
The Landmark Society of Western New York Inc

To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…

Arts & Culture
12
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ripley 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyIndependent K-12 SchoolsSenior Support ServicesOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Military Veterans SupportHealth Access Advocacy and …Equine Therapy ProgramsAnimal Rescue and ShelterYouth Development CentersLocal History MuseumsUnited Way AffiliatesPolicy Research and AdvocacyPregnancy Support ServicesYmca Youth DevelopmentCommunity FoundationsDance Arts OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Faith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Community FoundationsEnvironmental Conservation …Public Library OperationsCommunity Arts Centers
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 48 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%14%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%18%35–55yr16%44%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%5%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr16%49%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/89
the rest of the field
13%
240,396/1,819,476

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.

04the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 126 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
60/82
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan — $430,000 · OtherFirst Presbyterian Church of New CanaanNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $413,000 · OtherNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INCAudubon Connecticut — $410,000 · OtherAudubon ConnecticutIndividual grant recipient — $293,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSOUTH WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL CORPORATION — $195,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $175,000 · OtherRIPLEY INC — $165,000 · OtherHawaiian Mission House — $163,000 · OtherAmerican Indian College — $151,000 · OtherINTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS & SONS — $213,000 · Other+53 more — $1,713,892 · Other+53 moreCENTRAL WISCONSIN CULTURAL CENTER INC — $420,000 · Arts & CultureCENTRAL WISCONS…SUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC — $117,000 · Arts & CultureSUMMER THEATRE …THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION — $103,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LAHAINA RES…THE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $90,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW CANAAN …THEATREWORKS USA CORPORATION — $87,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATREWORKS US…CURTAIN CALL INC — $70,000 · Arts & CultureCURTAIN CALL IN…KUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $56,000 · Arts & CultureSOCIETY FOR HISTORICALLY INFORMED PERFORMANCE — $41,000 · Arts & Culture+12 more — $246,000 · Arts & Culture+12 moreSAVE THE SOUND — $390,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOU…RARE — $133,000 · EnvironmentRARECONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $105,000 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT …ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $99,000 · EnvironmentENVIRONMENTA…WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $90,000 · EnvironmentWAVENY PARK …New Canaan Nature Center Association Inc — $55,000 · EnvironmentNew Canaan N…THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $52,000 · Environment+3 more — $68,000 · Environment+3 moreTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC — $226,000 · EducationTHE NEW CAN…NORTHLAND COLLEGE — $141,300 · EducationNORTHLAND C…UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $140,511 · EducationUNIVERSITY …Cornell University — $87,000 · EducationCornell Uni…NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $82,000 · EducationNORWALK COM…WESTOVER SCHOOL INC — $73,000 · EducationWESTOVER SC…THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $56,000 · EducationTHE NEW CAN…EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL — $55,833 · EducationEMMA WILLAR…HARLEM ACADEMY — $39,000 · Education+4 more — $16,585 · EducationAmerican Bird Conservancy — $320,000 · AnimalsINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $174,000 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society — $44,000 · AnimalsAMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS — $30,000 · Animals+3 more — $28,500 · AnimalsWAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK INC — $268,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC — $85,000 · HealthNorwalk Hospital Foundation — $58,000 · HealthTHE ALEXANDER LOWEN FOUNDATION INC — $18,000 · HealthDE NOVO CENTER FOR JUSTICE AND HEALING — $17,000 · Health+1 more — $4,000 · HealthCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC — $222,750 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON INC — $67,000 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD & ADAMS COUNTIES INC — $67,000 · PhilanthropyNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $28,500 · Philanthropy+2 more — $17,500 · Philanthropy
Other$4,322,392Arts & Culture$1,230,000Environment$992,000Education$917,229Animals$626,500Health$450,000Philanthropy$402,750

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTRAL WISCONSIN CULTURAL CENTER INC — $420,000 over 7y, 17% of budgetNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $413,000 over 7y, 84% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND — $390,000 over 9y, 1.0% of budgetAmerican Bird Conservancy — $320,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC — $226,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetCHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC — $222,750 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS & SONS — $213,000 over 7y, 9.8% of budgetSOUTH WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL CORPORATION — $195,000 over 9y, 16% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC — $174,000 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetRIPLEY INC — $165,000 over 9y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHLAND COLLEGE — $141,300 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION — $140,511 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRARE — $133,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC — $117,000 over 9y, 6.2% of budgetSTAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC — $107,000 over 8y, 5.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $105,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION — $103,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED — $99,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $90,000 over 9y, 14% of budgetLANCASTER MENNONITE CONFERENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $90,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetWAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $90,000 over 9y, 4.2% of budgetCentral Maine Bible Conference Fair Haven Camps — $88,333 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetTHEATREWORKS USA CORPORATION — $87,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCornell University — $87,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC — $85,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT — $85,000 over 9y, 2.4% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $82,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetHORIZONS INC — $75,000 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetWESTOVER SCHOOL INC — $73,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMAINE ORGANIC FARMERS AND GARDENERS ASSOCIATION — $70,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCURTAIN CALL INC — $70,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC — $67,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH WOOD & ADAMS COUNTIES INC — $67,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation — $58,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $56,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetKUTZTOWN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC — $56,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEMMA WILLARD SCHOOL — $55,833 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc — $55,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetTHE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND — $52,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $44,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR HISTORICALLY INFORMED PERFORMANCE — $41,000 over 6y, 31% of budgetHARLEM ACADEMY — $39,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC — $38,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetLANCASTERHISTORYORG — $37,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetWNET — $34,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN BIRDING ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNEW CANAAN GARDEN CLUB INC — $30,000 over 7y, 7.2% of budgetBOSTON EARLY MUSIC FESTIVAL INC — $30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budget
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 CENTRAL WISCONSIN CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
  • Who funds American Bird Conservancy ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds CHAUTAUQUA FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL ORDER OF THE KING'S DAUGHTERS & SONS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTH WOOD COUNTY HISTORICAL CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds RIPLEY INC ↗
  • Who funds NORTHLAND COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RARE ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
  • Who funds STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE LAHAINA RESTORATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LANCASTER MENNONITE CONFERENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds Central Maine Bible Conference Fair Haven Camps ↗
  • Who funds THEATREWORKS USA CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS 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.

New Canaan Community …The Seelert Foundatio…Jeniam FoundationIbm International Fou…Half Moon FoundationJim and Dede Bartlett…Hobbs Family Charitab…The Morris Family Fou…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Connecticut Humanitie…Fairfield County's Co…Alexander Family Foun…
New Canaan Community Foundation IncCT31.9× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Seelert Foundation Inc · Jeniam Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Half Moon Foundation · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · The Morris Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Alexander Family Foundation 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 MLE 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Ocean Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
  • De Novo Center for Justice and Healing — 9% of income from government
  • Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Charles River Watershed Association Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
  • New England Dance Theater Inc — 5% of income from government
  • La Donna Musicale Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Pacific University — 2% of income from government
  • Act of Connecticut — 1% of income from government
  • Summer Theatre of New Canaan Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Black Rock Theater Corporation — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Curtain Call Inc — 0% of income from government
  • New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Milton Academy — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to MLE Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to MLE 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 126 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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