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Robert Earll McConnell Fnd - Cash
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION | $9,000 |
| NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC | $7,000 |
| BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK | $7,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CENTRAL VA | $6,000 |
| JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION | $6,000 |
| THE HARVEY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUND | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT | $5,000 |
| OPEN DOOR HOME | $5,000 |
| SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $4,500 |
| PBS FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC | $4,000 |
| THE PARAMOUNT FOUNDATION INC | $4,000 |
| JOSH PALLOTTA FUND | $4,000 |
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, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 84% 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.
49 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 12 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- JRJAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION7× · 2018–2025 · $62k · revenue +169%
- HOHOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC7× · 2018–2025 · $43k · revenue +30%
- BSBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC4× · 2018–2022 · $40k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- HSHIGHLAND SUPPORT PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue -35%
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +3%
- GAGREENWICH ACADEMY INCone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +14%
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 vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
Protect land along rivers, lakes and wetlands of vt; protect public access, wildlife habitat, scenic natural beauty, and ecological integrity.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
To preserve the unique character and natural resources of harvard.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
Northern neck land conservancy's mission is to preserve the rural heritage of the northern neck and essex county by conserving their lands, water, economies and culture for future generations. the land conservancy assists landowners who…
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Help Health Equipment Loan Program 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 32 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 93 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 JAMES RIVER ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF THE PIEDMONT INC ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds WHITEWATER THERAPEUTIC & RECREATIONAL RIDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MIDDLEBURG FISH ↗
- Who funds THE KIVA CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE PLAINS COMMUNITY LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds BLUE RIDGE AREA FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SALMON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILDLAND FIREFIGHTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Democracy Fund ↗
- Who funds LEGAL AID JUSTICE CENTER ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOOR HOME ↗
- Who funds GENESIS RECOVERY INC ↗
- Who funds SANIBEL-CAPTIVA CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOHO CENTER FOR ARTS AND EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE VALENTINE MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SQUAM LAKES ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds 118 FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RICHMOND BALLET ↗
- Who funds VIRGINIA MENTORING PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA'S FRIENDS INC ↗
- Who funds SANCTUARY RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE LAWRENCEVILLE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds HIGHLAND SUPPORT PROJECT ↗
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: Charlottesville Area Community Foundation · The Grossman Family Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pamela and Laurence Tarica Foundation · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation Inc · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · S&P Global Foundation Fka the McGraw-Hill Research Foundation · Hilltop Foundation Inc · The Beach Foundation · The Schifrin Foundation Inc · Oakwood Foundation Charitable Trust
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 Robert Earll McConnell Fnd - Cash 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Sanibel-Captiva Conservation Foundation — 4% 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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