· Private foundation
Squier Family 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k31 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $183k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CROSSING THRESHOLDS | $160,000 |
| NEW CANAAN MUSEUM HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $50,000 |
| THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEW CANAAN | $45,000 |
| NEW CANAAN YMCA | $28,440 |
| CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEW CANAAN | $20,500 |
| LITTLE SISTERS FUND | $15,000 |
| WOOD RIVER COMMUNITY YMCA | $13,000 |
| SILVER CREEK ALLIANCE | $11,000 |
| FUTURE 5 | $10,000 |
| WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST | $10,000 |
| HIGHER GROUND USA | $10,000 |
| I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| SHEPHERDS INC | $10,000 |
| CAREER RESOURCES | $7,000 |
| NEW CANAAN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 74% 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.
42 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 15 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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
- CTCROSSING THRESHOLDS INC7× · 2018–2024 · $442k · revenue +42%
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $248k · revenue +12%
- LSLITTLE SISTERS FUND INC6× · 2018–2024 · $46k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- WRWood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Incgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $108k · revenue +254%
- CSCANCER SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $8k
- RCROSER CHURCHone grant, 2023 · $5k
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 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 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…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
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.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Give Me an Answer 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 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) — 2% 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.
60 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. 60 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 CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wood River Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE SISTERS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS INC ↗
- Who funds WOOD RIVER LAND TRUST CO ↗
- Who funds GIVE ME AN ANSWER INC ↗
- Who funds I HAVE A DREAM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER GROUND USA INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER CREEK ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM LACROSSE AND LEADERSHIP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds CAREER RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BLAINE COUNTY HUNGER COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUN VALLEY SUMMER SYMPHONY 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: New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · The Queenan Fdn Acct · Half Moon Foundation · Corbet Family Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · MLE Foundation Inc · Jeniam Foundation · The Debard Johnson Foundation Inc · O'Connor Family Foundation · Thrasher Koffey 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 Squier 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.
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
- United Way of Indian River County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Summer Theatre of New Canaan Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 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.