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Richard a & James F Corroon Foundation
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 you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $7,500 |
| SUN VALLEY CENTER OF ART | $7,000 |
| SUN VALLEY AUTHORS FESTIVAL | $7,000 |
| HANNA BOYS CENTER | $7,000 |
| REACH RIVERSIDE DEVEL CORP | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH WORKS THE PEOPLES HOUSE | $5,000 |
| HARTFORD HOSPITAL | $4,000 |
| PERSON TO PERSON HELPS | $3,000 |
| JOUNCE PARTNERS | $3,000 |
| CATHEDRAL OF THE MADELINE | $3,000 |
| GRACE OUTREACH | $3,000 |
| NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $3,000 |
| CENTRO CIVICO MEXICANO | $2,500 |
| PILOT SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| EASTSIDE COMMUNITY LEARNING FOUNDAT | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +34% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 8 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18k 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
THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND8× · 2017–2025 · $53k · revenue +109%- GOGRACE OUTREACH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +25%
- HHHartford Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- BABROOKLYN AVIATORS YOUTH HOCKEYone grant, 2024 · $10k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- PTPERSON TO PERSON INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue -8%
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
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…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
We empower young people to explore and grow their unique intellectual, ethical, and creative capabilities, and to treasure diversity and growth in others.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
See schedule o.we are inspired by the ideals of our founder who, in 1896, emphasized respect for all people and ideas, who honored knowledge with practice, progress and the common good. our historical commitment to experiential learning…
Laurence endeavors to develop the unique abilities and potential of each of its students in a diverse, inclusive and supportive learning community, where rich traditions and an innovative curriculum foster educational excellence and joy in…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
We take a joyful, community-oriented approach to raising engaged citizens, deep learners, and brave adventurers with the skills, creativity, and heart needed to better the world.
The philadelphia school educates children for a future that is impossible to know but not impossible to shape. learn here. go anywhere.
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.
The waverly school is a nonsectarian, coeducational, college preparatory progressive day school that spans preschool through high school. it is fully accredited by the western association of school and colleges and the california…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill-Stead Museum and the most unlike its peers is La Luz Foundation. 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 31 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
41 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 41 of the 85 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 THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds GRACE OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds Sonoma Valley Authors Festival ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF TRACY AVIARY ↗
- Who funds COOPERATIVE FOR ASSISTANCE AND RELIEF EVERYWHERE INC ↗
- Who funds DELAWARE WILD LANDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PILOT SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds JOUNCE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRO CIVICO MEXICANO ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ORBIS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FREEDOM INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SPY HOP PRODUCTIONS ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF DELAWARE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ALTA INC ↗
- Who funds MARIN LINK INC ↗
- Who funds THE MUSIC SCHOOL OF DELAWARE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds GORDIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Camp Opportunity Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SERVIAM GIRLS ACADEMY 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: Delaware Community Foundation Inc · Crestlea Foundation Inc · Marmot Foundation · Welfare Foundation Inc · Chichester Dupont Foundation Inc · Longwood Foundation Inc · Ederic Foundation Inc · Vinton Family Foundation · Nor' Easter Foundation Inc · David Kelby Johnson Memorial Foundation · Laffey-McHugh Foundation · Wa Speakman Family 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 Richard a & James F Corroon 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.
- Delaware College of Art and Design — 32% of income from government
- Historical Society of Delaware — 18% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Music School of Delaware Inc — 9% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Delaware Museum of Nature and Science Inc — 2% of income from government
- Serviam Girls Academy Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Pilot School Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 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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