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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.

$4k
Granted FY2025still arriving
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Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$4k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$73kHealth$17kHuman Services$11kPublic Benefit$4kAnimals$4kReligion$2kFood & Nutrition$2kPublic Safety & Disaster$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$4,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$343k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RALLY FOR PAWS$4,000
02The need
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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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $2k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $500 → 9%STERLING HOUSE: $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.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$89k · 6 repeat orgs$28k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +131% since the first grant, against +12% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
7

Total granted

$89k
$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+131%
+12%

Still filing today

83%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’22’23’24’25
Public BenefitHealthHuman ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
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

  • WC
    WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC
    3× · 2018–2020 · $73k · revenue +8%
  • PA
    PINK AID INC
    2× · 2020–2023 · $4k · revenue +131%
  • TT
    THE TOMMY FUND INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $3k · revenue +181%

Funded once

  • SV
    St Vincent's Medical Center
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue 0%
  • CC
    CHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC
    one grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +12%
  • CB
    CANEEL BAY EMPLOYEE FUND
    one grant, 2018 · $1k
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
Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

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2
Calvary Hospital Inc

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…

Health
3
Sam Day Foundation

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.

Food & Nutrition
4
The Curetivity Foundation

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.

Health
5
Children's Cancer Family Foundation of Ne Wi Inc

Raise money to support families and children suffering from childhood cancer.

Health
6
Bright Pink Nfp

Bright pink's mission is to accelerate, deepen, and expand the impact of life-saving breast and ovarian health interventions.

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7
Radiant Hope

To support and encourage those whose lives have been impacted by cancer.

Health
8
Food & Friends Inc

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.

Health
9
Children's Hospital Medical Center of Akron

To improve the health of children, teenagers and young adults through excellence in patient care, education, research, advocacy and community partnerships.

Health
10
Nick Strong Foundation Inc

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.

Health
11
Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation

To prevail over cancer, marshaling heart and mind in bold scientific discovery, pioneering prevention and compassionate care.

Health
12
Gilda's Club Chicago

To ensure that all people impacted by cancer are empowered by knowledge, strengthened by action, and sustained by community.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Filling in the Blanks Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

10 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. 10 of the 14 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)
10/10
Grantees still filing
6/10
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $73,484 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INCCHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC: $10,000 · Public BenefitCHRISTOPHER C…Fairfield Rotary Club FoundationIn: $4,310 · Public BenefitFairfield Rot…St Vincent's Medical Center: $10,000 · HealthSt Vincent's…THE TOMMY FUND INC: $3,000 · HealthTHE TOMMY FU…RALLY FOR PAWS: $4,000 · OtherCHRIST AND HOLY TRINITY CHURCH: $2,300 · OtherCANEEL BAY EMPLOYEE FUND: $1,000 · OtherTEST YOUR BEST LLC: $1,000 · OtherNUDAY: $500 · Other+1 more: $80 · OtherPINK AID INC: $4,000 · PhilanthropyFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesSTERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Arts & Culture$73,484Public Benefit$14,310Health$13,000Other$8,880Philanthropy$4,000Human Services$3,000

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 budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $73,484 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSt Vincent's Medical Center: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetPINK AID INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRALLY FOR PAWS: $4,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetTHE TOMMY FUND INC: $3,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNUDAY: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY10.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Graham Foundation of Ct Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Graham Foundation of Ct Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%3%5%8%10%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Sterling House Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
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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Find your warmest path to The Graham Foundation of Ct Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

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 14 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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