· Private foundation
Riley Family 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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $9k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DARIEN LIBRARY INC | $60,000 |
| PERSON TO PERSON INC | $35,000 |
| HORIZONS NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE INC | $5,000 |
| LIVEGIRL INC | $3,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $1,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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 +51% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- PTPERSON TO PERSON INC5× · 2020–2025 · $111k · revenue +19%
- DLDARIEN LIBRARY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $83k · revenue +5%
- KEKids Empowered by Your Support Inc6× · 2017–2023 · $42k · revenue +41%
Funded once
- AWA WOMAN'S NATIONone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -100%
- TFTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -14%
GREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INCone grant, 2024 · $3k · revenue 0%
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 darien foundation's mission is to provide grant funding for technology and capital projects that create opportunity for darien's youth, support town safety and security services, enhance the overall quality of life in darien, and…
Provide educational, cultural, recreational and civic programs; generate funds for scholarships and other philanthropic works within the community; maintain meadowlands as a community resource.
The mission of the darien historical society, and its bates scofield homestead museum, is to maintain, collect, preserve, and exhibit materials of local historical value and educate the community about its heritage. it is through the…
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…
Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…
To inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts
To provide free library services and computer access to the community.
Form 990 part iii, line 1 "helping darien seniors live independently, comfortably and with dignity in their own homes and the community as long as possible."
The organization is a local chamber of commerce. the chamber attempts to stimulate growth of businesses in the greater danbury, connecticut area.
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
In cooperation with the Roman Catholic Prelature of Opus Dei, Darien Study Center fosters the search for holiness in the middle of the world, by means of ordinary work and all the other circumstances of daily life. See www.opusdei.org.
The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Crystal Theatre Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 35 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 PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
- Who funds Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GOOD CAUSES INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds A WOMAN'S NATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LAND TRUST OF DARIEN INC ↗
- Who funds CRYSTAL THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds LiveGirl Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
- Who funds Childrens Leukemia Research Assn Inc ↗
- Who funds DARIEN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STREETSQUASH INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPEARE ON THE SOUND 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · Clarion Capital Charitable Foundation · The Goodnow Fund · Synchrony Foundation · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Robert & Diana Borman Family Charitable Foundation · Schaefer-Phillips Foundation Inc · Alexandra 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 Riley Family 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.
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Community Fund of Darien — 9% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Crystal Theatre Inc — 3% 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.