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The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd

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.

$36k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$3k
Largest
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$102kEducation$66kHuman Services$57kHousing & Shelter$27kArts & Culture$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kYouth Development$12kReligion$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$700k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHARLOTTE HELEN BACON FOUNDATION$3,000
BRADY'S SMILE INC$3,000
GREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY$3,000
BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION$2,500
HOMES FOR THE BRAVE$2,500
MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION$2,500
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY$2,500
MERCY LEARNING CENTER$2,000
SALVATION ARMY$2,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$2,000
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$2,000
HOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE$2,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT$2,000
Individual grant recipient$1,000
THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%BRADY'S SMILE INC: $3k → 9%BRADY'S SMILE INC: $3k → 9%BRADY'S SMILE INC: $3k → 9%BRADY'S SMILE INC: $2k → 9%BRADY'S SMILE INC: $2k → 9%BRADY'S SMILE INC: $1k → 9%BRADY'S SMILE: $1k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$302k · 24 repeat orgs$4k to everyone else

24 repeat relationships: 17 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
1

Total granted

$302k
$3k

Still filing today

50%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthEducationHuman ServicesPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • SH
    SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED
    9× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +84%
  • Fairfield University
    9× · 2017–2025 · $23k · revenue +63%
  • BR
    BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $18k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • SV
    ST VINCENTS COLLEGE AT SHU
    one grant, 2021 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
2
Mercy Health

Mercy Health will provide assistance, support and direction to all of the health care institutions and activities operated and maintained by its Subsidiaries. The mission of Mercy Health in performing these activities shall be to provide a…

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3
Bridgeport Hospital

To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.

Health
4
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc

To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.

Health
5
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
6
Bradley Home for the Aged

To provide a compassionate community where loving care enables aged and indigent individuals from meriden and connecticut to live with dignity in a secure, homelike environment.

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7
Bristol Hospital Inc

Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…

Health
8
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
9
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Inc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
10
Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return

Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.

Health
11
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
12
St Vincent's College Inc

Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Blood Cancer United Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

15 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 26 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT: $23,000 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORTGREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $19,000 · OtherGREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY SOCIETY INCHOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE: $19,000 · OtherHOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGESALVATION ARMY: $15,000 · OtherSALVATION ARMYAMERICAN RED CROSS CT CHAPTER: $14,000 · OtherAMERICAN RED CROSS CT CHAPTERCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $12,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCDAUGHTERS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT INC: $10,000 · OtherDAUGHTERS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT INCHOME FOR THE BRAVE: $7,000 · OtherGOODWILL OF WESTERN & NORTHERN CT INC: $7,000 · OtherAHLBIN CENTERS: $6,000 · OtherST VINCENTS SPECIAL NEEDS SERVICE: $6,000 · Other+3 more: $6,000 · OtherSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $29,000 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY…Fairfield University: $23,000 · EducationFairfield UniversityMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $10,500 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CENTER O…St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,500 · HealthSt Vincent's …THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 · HealthTHE TINY MIRA…APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT: $9,000 · HealthAPPLIED BEHAV…BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,000 · HealthBLOOD CANCER …BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $17,500 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT R…BRADYS SMILE: $13,500 · Human ServicesBRADYS SMILEFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 · Human ServicesFIDELCO GUID…MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 · PhilanthropyThe Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation Inc: $11,500 · Youth Development
Other$144,500Education$62,500Health$36,000Human Services$34,000Philanthropy$17,000Youth Development$11,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $29,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $23,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC: $19,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $17,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC: $17,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetBRADYS SMILE: $13,500 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetSt Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $10,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC: $10,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHEALTHY EYES ALLIANCE: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield University ↗
  • Who funds GREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
  • Who funds MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BRADYS SMILE ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds The Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
  • Who funds BLOOD CANCER UNITED INC ↗
  • Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HEALTHY EYES ALLIANCE ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Cyrus W & Amy F Jones & Bessie D Phelps Foundation Inc · Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 59% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Greater Bridgeport Symphony Society Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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