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Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Health$454kEducation$405kHuman Services$283kPhilanthropy$192kYouth Development$134kInternational$125kArts & Culture$48kFood & Nutrition$28kOther$0
02FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
OPERATION HOPE$15,000
NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL$15,000
UVM FOUNDATION$15,000
ST PIUS X PARISH$15,000
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 (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. Its 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
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.
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.
$1.6M · 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

+22%
+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
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

  • YN
    YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
    3× · 2020–2023 · $300k · revenue +43%
  • 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%
  • SH
    SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +37%
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
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…

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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…

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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.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, 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.

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

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

Where the money sits, by cause and 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…MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $20,000 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CEN…UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF VERM…NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC: $20,000 · EducationNEW BEGINNINGS FAM…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 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 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 budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHESTER COUNTY FOOD BANK: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetFairfield University: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGUATEMALA HEALING HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 5.6% 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 budgetSHEPHERDS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHPORT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetTHE LUKE O'BRIEN FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCHATHAM FIRE ASSOCIATION INC: $5,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetTEAM WOOFGANG & CO INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetBURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.2% 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
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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…Peoples United Commun…Tauck Family Foundati…The Near and Far Asso…The Aiello Charitable…Ge Aerospace Foundati…Russo Family Foundati…Young Mens Christian …The Inner-City Founda…Estate of Benjamin B …Elizabeth M Pfriem Fo…Cannupa Foundation
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

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 Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • Cape Abilities Inc: 81% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp: 11% of income from government
  • Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc: 6% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Cardinal Shehan Center Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • The Rectory School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pequot Library Association: 0% 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, 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 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 53 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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