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The Graham Foundation of Ct Inc
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RALLY FOR PAWS | $4,000 |
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 (FY18–22, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 +131% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- WCWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC3× · 2018–2020 · $73k · revenue +8%
- PAPINK AID INC2× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +131%
- TTTHE TOMMY FUND INC2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- SVSt Vincent's Medical Centerone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
- CCCHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +12%
- SHSTERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $1k · revenue +35%
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 funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
The mission of calvary hospital is to care for the medical, emotional and spiritual needs of our adult patients with advanced cancer and other life-limiting illnesses. it is the only fully accredited acute care hospital in the u.s. devoted…
The sam day foundation advances research for childhood and young adult cancers and facilitates wellness-centered support and experiences so kids with cancer can survive and live well.
Provide monetary or financial aid exclusively for charitable, religious, scientific, literary or educational purposes and to solicit, receive, maintain and disburse funds for these purposes and for the betterment of children.
Raise money to support families and children suffering from childhood cancer.
Bright pink's mission is to accelerate, deepen, and expand the impact of life-saving breast and ovarian health interventions.
To support and encourage those whose lives have been impacted by cancer.
To improve the lives and health of people with hiv/aids, cancer, and other serious illnesses by preparing and delivering (free of charge) specialized meals and groceries, providing nutritional counseling, and reducing social isolation.
To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.
To fund various initiatives,including research for pediatric germ cell tumors, assistance for families going through cancer treatment, and providing holiday gifts for pediatric cancer patients at boston children's hospital and jimmy fund.
To prevail over cancer, marshaling heart and mind in bold scientific discovery, pioneering prevention and compassionate care.
To ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Filling in the Blanks Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rally for Paws. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 14 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 WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield Rotary Club FoundationIn ↗
- Who funds PINK AID INC ↗
- Who funds RALLY FOR PAWS ↗
- Who funds THE TOMMY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NUDAY ↗
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 Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 The Graham Foundation of Ct 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.
- Sterling House Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% 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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