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The Giving Bee 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 FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $188k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC | $40,000 |
| THE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC | $25,000 |
| CHABAD LUBAVITCH OF GREENWICH INC | $25,000 |
| ROUND HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INCORPORATED | $15,000 |
| MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CT INC | $13,000 |
| STECHER AND HOROWITZ FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| LONG NOW FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ROUND HILL ASSOCIATION INC | $10,000 |
| GREENWICH VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC | $10,000 |
| TALIESIN PRESERVATION INC | $10,000 |
| NATIONAL CHILDRENS BOOK AND LITERACY ALLIANCE INC | $7,000 |
| COFFEE FOR GOOD INC | $5,000 |
| STAMFORD MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTER INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| NYCXD INC | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 9 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- GRGREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC3× · 2021–2024 · $52k · revenue +118%
- TPTALIESIN PRESERVATION INC4× · 2020–2024 · $31k · revenue +154%
- GEGREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC2× · 2023–2024 · $23k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- RHROUND HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +28%
- MFMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2024 · $13k · revenue -3%
- TLTHE LONG NOW FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
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.
To provide free library services and computer access to the community.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The greenwich tree conservancy is open to all interested citizens, governed by a board and advised by an advisory board. it was created to preserve and enhance the tree and forest resources of greenwich, ct to benefit the community, its…
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
The Newtown Forest Association is the oldest private land trust organization in Connecticut. It has been dedicated for one hundred years to securing for the residents of Newtown and for posterity generally the benefits derived from open…
Greenwich house responds to the urgent, ongoing, and diverse needs of our community by offering health, human services, education, and arts programs that foster wellness, creativity, and connection.
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.
Greenwich historical society, inc. preserves and interprets greenwich history to strengthen the community's connection to our past, to each other and to our future.
The primary mission of the Westchester Land Trust is to conserve, maintain and enhance the natural environment and resources of Westchester County and eastern Putnam County. The Trust acquires interests in land exhibiting important natural…
Grounds For Sculpture combines art and beckoning spaces to welcome, surprise, and engage all visitors in the artists act of invention.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The greenwich village society for historic preservation ("village preservation") preserves the architectural heritage and cultural history of greenwich village, the east village, and noho.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Riding & Trails Association Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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 GREENWICH RIDING & TRAILS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE STECHER AND HOROWITZ FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds TALIESIN PRESERVATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds ROUND HILL VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds Greenwich Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE LONG NOW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Greenwich Forward INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CHILDREN'S BOOK AND LITERACY ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds COFFEE FOR GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds NYCXD INC ↗
- Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center 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: The Giving Bee Family Foundation · MacKenzie Ryan Brumberg Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The John L and Sue Ann Weinberg Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 The Giving Bee 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.
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% 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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