· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k32 grants · $129k
- $10k–50k46 grants · $834k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $215k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| New Canaan Town Players Inc | $60,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan | $55,000 |
| American Indian College | $50,000 |
| American Indian Education Fund | $50,000 |
| Southwood County Historical Corporation | $40,000 |
| Save the Sound | $40,000 |
| Connecticut Audubon Society | $40,000 |
| Audubon Connecticut | $35,000 |
| American Bird Conservancy | $35,000 |
| Hawaiian Mission House | $32,500 |
| Maine Organic Farmers and Gardners Association | $30,000 |
| University of Wisconsin Foundation | $30,000 |
| Central Wisconsin Cultural Center | $30,000 |
| Fair Haven Camps | $30,000 |
| International Crane Foundation | $27,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +21% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $63k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- STSAVE THE SOUND9× · 2017–2025 · $390k · revenue +93%
- ABAmerican Bird Conservancy9× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +54%
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $226k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- BIBeth Israel Congregationone grant, 2023 · $33k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $10k
- ASAurora St Luke's Medical Centerone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
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…
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…
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
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…
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…
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…
How this is measured
82 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. 82 of the 126 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds LANCASTER MENNONITE CONFERENCE HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Central Maine Bible Conference Fair Haven Camps ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds THEATREWORKS USA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDRENS STOREFRONT ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization MLE Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from MLE Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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