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Quonochontaug 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
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $453k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $540k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASS GENERAL HOSPITAL | $500,000 |
| WINSOR SCHOOL INC | $230,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $125,000 |
| TENACRE COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL (WELLESLEY) | $75,000 |
| BOCH CENTER | $60,000 |
| TEACH FOR AMERICA | $50,000 |
| MARK GARWOOD SHARE FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC | $30,000 |
| THE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| MSPCAANGELL ANIMAL MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC | $25,000 |
| MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| MASSCHALLENGE | $20,000 |
| WESTERLY LIBRARY & WILCOX PARK | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 40% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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
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 +46% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.
44 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- UCUSS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +28% · 29% of their budget
- LULEHIGH UNIVERSITY7× · 2017–2024 · $895k · revenue +69%
THE WINSOR SCHOOL8× · 2017–2024 · $515k · revenue +46%
Funded once
- SSPINone grant, 2017 · $200k
Feeding Americagraduatedone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue +40%- TPTHE PEGASUS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue -38%
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.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wpi transforms lives, turns knowledge into action to confront global challenges, and revolutionizes stem through distinctive and inclusive education, projects and research. (http://www.wpi.edu/about/mission.html)
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Education and Research
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Mission strengthened by more than a century and a half of dedication to academic excellence, boston college commits itself to the highest standards of teaching and research in undergraduate, graduate and professional programs and to the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Save the Bay Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Colonial Theatre School 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
52 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. 52 of the 75 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 USS CONSTITUTION MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE WINSOR SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds NOBLE AND GREENOUGH SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE WANG CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MARK GARWOOD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSCHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds MALTZ JUPITER THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds Jupiter Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WELLESLEY FREE LIBRARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
- Who funds JUPITER ISLAND MEDICAL CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds RAILS TO TRAILS CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Literacy Volunteers of Washington County ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds BARNARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds THE PEGASUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn · The Ninigret Foundation Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Jpmorgan Chase 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 Quonochontaug 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.
- Massachusetts Historical Society — 22% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Uss Constitution Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- The Wang Center for the Performing Arts Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Masschallenge Inc — 3% of income from government
- Treasure Coast Food Bank Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Friends of the Public Garden Inc — 1% of income from government
- Rosie's Place Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lighthouse Artcenter Inc — 0% of income from government
- Steppingstone Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 0% 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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