· Private foundation
Steve and Diane Parrish 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 $10k18 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $75k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $75k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC | $75,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| CARLETON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| HOUSE UNITED | $7,500 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD STUDIOS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC | $5,000 |
| HOMES WITH HOPE INC | $5,000 |
| UNDERDOG RESCUE INC | $3,000 |
| NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY | $1,000 |
| SOUTH UPTOWN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF THE FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY INC | $1,000 |
| AUTISM FAMILES CONNECTICUT | $750 |
| WESTPORT WRITERS WORKSHOP I INC | $500 |
| FAIRFIELD COUNTY CHILDRENS CHOIR INC | $500 |
| CONNECTICUT DANCE SCHOOL INC | $500 |
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 (FY17–19, $710k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% 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.
27 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $27k 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
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +39%
- OLORCHESTRA LUMOS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $806k · revenue +35%
- SHSAFE HORIZON INC3× · 2017–2019 · $710k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- TKThe Kansas University Endowment Associationgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +93%
- MLMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $20k · revenue +37%
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%
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 connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To serve our communities by provding innovative and compassionate healthcare.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hcc Network 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 38 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
38 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. 38 of the 46 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 CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds Joybound People and Pets FKA Tony La Russa's Animal Rescue Foundation ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds TRIPLE NEGATIVE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds HCC Network Inc ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds UNDERDOG RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds South Uptown Neighborhood Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE FAIRFIELD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds FRANKLIN CENTER ↗
- Who funds PHILADELPHIA THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds AUTISM FAMILIES CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CAN DO CANINES ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT WRITERS' WORKSHOP I INC ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION MINNESOTA INC ↗
- Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DOWN SYNDROME SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WRITING PROJECT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GREAT DANE RESCUE OF MN AND WI ↗
- Who funds The Cookie Cart ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY CHILDREN'S CHOIR INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BALLET SCHOOL ↗
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 · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Lundberg Family Foundation · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · Synchrony 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 Steve and Diane Parrish 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.
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Ballet School — 1% of income from government
- Orchestra Lumos Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Silver Hill Hospital 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.