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Suzanne McGraw Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $776k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Pennsylvania | $903,656 |
| Jewish Community Center of Stamford | $702,544 |
| Family Centers Inc | $425,158 |
| Mill River Collaborative | $199,808 |
| Star Foundation Inc | $100,556 |
| Noroton Presbyterian Church | $100,037 |
| Darien Public Library | $100,037 |
| Upstream Education | $75,028 |
| Open Doors | $50,019 |
| The Maritime Aquarium of Norwalk Inc | $50,019 |
| Hartley House | $50,019 |
| Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk Inc | $50,000 |
| Abilis | $40,000 |
| International Fund for Animal Welfare Inc | $5,551 |
| Star Inc Lighting The Way | $5,122 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 14% 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 +71% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- JCJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $4.1M · revenue +94%
- FCFAMILY CENTERS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +101%
INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.5M · revenue +49%
Funded once
- JCJewish Community Center of Stamford (JCC Stamford)one grant, 2020 · $890k
- FOFriends of Forman Christian College Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $253k · revenue +42%
- ECEaston Country Day School Incone grant, 2020 · $101k · revenue +20%
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.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
Jewish family services of greenwich (jfs) is a nonprofit social service agency dedicated to strengthening individuals and families in fairfield and new london counties. jfs provides behavioral health counseling, food security programs,…
Northside center for child development day school (the "school") operates a comprehensive treatment center dedicated to meeting the social, emotional and educational needs of children and their families, principally through the operation…
Family services of westchester offers a broad range of social and mental health services to strengthen and support families, children and individuals at every stages of the life cycle from infancy to adulthood.
The arc of essex county provides advocacy and services empowering individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and their families to realize a lifetime of personal achievement and full partnership in the community.
Starr commonwealth's mission is to lead with courage to create positive experiences so that all children, families, and communities flourish.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
United way coastal and western connecticut (uwcwc) envisions a community where every person is healthy, safe, and economically secure. our mission is to work in partnership with community to address critical needs and advance equitable…
Forestdale's mission is to ensure that children have the assets they need to thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star Inc - Lighting the Way and the most unlike its peers is Upstream Education Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 19 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 JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA ↗
- Who funds MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL FUND FOR ANIMAL WELFARE INC ↗
- Who funds STAR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Forman Christian College Inc ↗
- Who funds UPSTREAM EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds ABILIS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTLEY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STAR INC - LIGHTING THE WAY ↗
- Who funds Easton Country Day School Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HARTLEY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds Odyssey Family Executive Center of South Norwalk ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Suzanne McGraw Foundation Inc 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.
- Star Inc - Lighting the Way — 83% of income from government
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Mill River Collaborative Inc — 28% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 6% 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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