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Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee

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.

$593k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0169% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202024.

Health$387kEducation$288kPhilanthropy$232kInternational$135kYouth Development$79kHuman Services$30kRecreation & Sports$29kFood & Nutrition$28kHousing & Shelter$25kOther$580k
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k15 grants · $347k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $226k
$15,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$9.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAVE THE CHILDREN$100,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY$75,000
EDUCATION AND HOPE$51,000
WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$45,000
CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT$45,000
BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$40,000
FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$30,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
SUFFIELD ACADEMY$25,000
Individual grant recipient$20,000
THE RECTORY SCHOOL$19,000
CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER$15,000
NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
UVM FOUNDATION$15,000
OPERATION HOPE$15,000
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 (FY21–22, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA: $10k → 12%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA: $10k → 12%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $5k → 8%LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCIL: $3k → 8%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.

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.6M · 33 repeat orgs$200k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
15

Total granted

$1.6M
$122k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+33%

Still filing today

79%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EducationPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesHealthInternationalOther

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

  • YN
    YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
    3× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +34%
  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $250k · revenue +46%
  • Save The Children Federation Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +0%

Funded once

  • PM
    Project Main Street Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $40k · revenue -76%
  • Fairfield Universitygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +63%
  • NP
    NORMA PFRIEM BREAST CENTER
    one grant, 2022 · $10k

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
Bridgeport Hospital

To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.

Health
3
The Bridge Academy Inc

The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…

Education
4
Cold Spring School Inc

Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.

Education
5
Connecticut Police Chiefs Association Inc

The connecticut police chiefs association is an organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life of the residents of the state of connecticut; to aiding other government bodies within and external to the state of connecticut in the…

6
St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc

The mission of the center is as follows:(a) to operate, oversee, administer, manage and supervise the assets and activities of saint catherine center for special needs, inc. and, including but not limited to, the assets and activities of…

7
Brunswick School Inc

Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…

Education
8
Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport

Great oaks charter school is a public school providing high-dosage tutoring, data-driven learning strategies & extra-curricular opportunities to students in grades 6-12 to ensure success in the career or college of their choice. great oaks…

Education
9
South Kent School Corporation

South kent school is an independent, college-preparatory school for boys. since its founding, south kent has maintained ties with the episcopal church. three principles define the school: simplicity of life, self-reliance, and directness…

Education
10
Bristol Hospital Inc

Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…

Health
11
The Connecticut Community Foundation

To foster an equitable and inclusive community in greater waterbury and litchfield hills by inspiring generosity, supporting organizations, and cultivating effective leaders. the foundation works to address the community's critical issues,…

Philanthropy
12
Connecticut Association of Realtors Inc

Provide education and legal information, conferences and special activities; public relations, legislative efforts and lobbying for members.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Luke O'brien 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadySocial Impact Advocacy Orga…Youth Education and Care Se…Cape Cod Community Organiza…Fire & Emergency ServicesYouth Sports LeaguesPhilanthropic Foundations &…Jewish Community Organizati…Community Support Services
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 39 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr12%5%5–10yr18%21%10–20yr19%13%20–35yr13%16%35–55yr19%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%1%<5yr12%1%5–10yr18%12%10–20yr19%14%20–35yr13%9%35–55yr19%64%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/39
the rest of the field
10%
1,859/18,525

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

37 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $250,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY IN…CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $85,000 · OtherCATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INCCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC — $35,000 · OtherNOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL — $34,115 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $25,000 · OtherOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC — $25,000 · Other+25 more — $206,750 · Other+25 moreYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $300,000 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITALBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $86,500 · HealthBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUN…THE RECTORY SCHOOL INC — $79,000 · EducationTHE RECTORY SCHOOL…FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION — $51,500 · EducationFAIRFIELD COUNTRY …SUFFIELD ACADEMY — $35,000 · EducationSUFFIELD ACADEMYPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $30,000 · EducationPEQUOT LIBRARY ASS…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERM…NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC — $20,000 · EducationNEW BEGINNINGS FAM…MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $20,000 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CEN…Fairfield University — $15,000 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $10,000 · Education+2 more — $7,500 · EducationEDUCATION AND HOPE INC — $186,500 · PhilanthropyEDUCATION AND …Project Main Street Inc — $40,000 · PhilanthropyProject Main S…+1 more — $5,000 · PhilanthropySave The Children Federation Inc — $125,000 · InternationalGUATEMALA HEALING HANDS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · InternationalWAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP — $78,500 · Youth DevelopmentCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 · Human ServicesLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC — $7,500 · Human ServicesCAPE ABILITIES INC — $2,000 · Human Services
Other$660,865Health$386,500Education$288,000Philanthropy$231,500International$135,000Youth Development$78,500Human Services$29,500

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 budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetEDUCATION AND HOPE INC — $186,500 over 4y, 17% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $125,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $86,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RECTORY SCHOOL INC — $79,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetWAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP — $78,500 over 3y, 3.6% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION — $51,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetProject Main Street Inc — $40,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetSUFFIELD ACADEMY — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC — $35,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $30,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFIRST SERVE BRIDGEPORT INC — $22,000 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFairfield University — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUATEMALA HEALING HANDS FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY PANTRY OF CAPE COD CORP — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHATHAM POLICE ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 over 4y, 5.4% of budgetTHE CHATHAM ORPHEUM THEATER INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCHATHAM FIRE ASSOCIATION INC — $5,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetBURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTEAM WOOFGANG & CO INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetTHE LUKE O'BRIEN FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetSOUTHPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT — $5,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetSHEPHERDS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPE ABILITIES INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHATHAM ATHLETIC ASSOCIATION INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWinhall Fire Department Inc — $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT29× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Tauck Family Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Russo Family Foundation Inc · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Estate of Benjamin B Lewis · Elizabeth M Pfriem Foundation · Cannupa 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 Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee 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
202122232425
no gov · 150%1%5%11%20%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 4%
  • Cape Abilities Inc81% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc15% of income from government
  • Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc14% of income from government
  • Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp11% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc6% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc4% of income from government
  • Cardinal Shehan Center Inc4% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital0% of income from government
  • The Rectory School Inc0% of income from government
  • Pequot Library Association0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
4report 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, FY2025

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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How do I get to Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee?

Find your warmest path to Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee 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 53 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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