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Teel's Marsh 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 $10k20 grants · $65k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| CENTER FOR LEADERSHIP & JUSTICE | $7,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $7,500 |
| INTERVAL HOUSE | $6,500 |
| WILD MONTANA | $5,000 |
| GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION | $5,000 |
| SHAGGY DOG RESCUE | $4,500 |
| KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION | $4,000 |
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF MONTANA | $3,000 |
| ASPCA | $2,500 |
| IRIS - INTEGRATED REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES | $2,500 |
| MADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| WILTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $2,500 |
| THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER | $2,000 |
| COLGATE UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
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 (FY21–24, $9k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- AOAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC9× · 2017–2025 · $250k · revenue +61%
THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +174%- GYGREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION8× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- WAWEST AVON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $30k
- SJSMITH-RANSOME JAPANESE BRIDGE CONSERVANCY INCone grant, 2018 · $13k
- SJSMITH-RANSOME JAPANESE BRIDGE CONSERVANCYone grant, 2019 · $13k
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 mission of the montana land reliance (mlr) is to partner with landowners to provide permanent protection for private lands that are significant for agricultural production, fish and wildlife habitat, and open space.
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
The wildlands trust works throughout southeastern massachusetts to conserve and permanently protect native habitats, farmland, and lands of high ecologic and scenic value that serve to keep our communities healthy and our residents…
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Wilson college empowers students to be confident and critical thinkers, creative visionaries, effective communicators, honorable leaders, and agents of justice.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
The mission of westminster college is to help students develop competencies, commitments, and characteristics which have distinguished human beings at their best. see continuation on schedule o.the liberal arts tradition is the foundation…
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.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Village for Families and Children and the most unlike its peers is Wilton Rocks for Food. 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 42 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 54 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 AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE KEEWAYDIN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREATER YELLOWSTONE COALITION ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORK ANIMAL WELFARE LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Shaggy Dog Rescue ↗
- Who funds MADISON VALLEY MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MONTANA WILDERNESS ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds GALLATIN VALLEY LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds COLGATE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MADISON RIVER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MADISON VALLEY RANCHLANDS GROUP ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PECONIC LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds Urban Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds WILTON LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Madison County Nursing Home Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH FORK ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds FLOYD MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Nutmeg Foundation Inc · The Ahearn Family Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Ferry Speer Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc
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 Teel's Marsh 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.
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 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.
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