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The Harold W McGraw Jr Family Foundation Inc c/o Cummings & Lockwood

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.

$7.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$3.3M
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY20202024.

Education$13MHealth$6.5MArts & Culture$3.0MHuman Services$2.9MCommunity Improvement$1.1MOther$4.8M
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k1 grant · $37k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $455k
  • $250k+5 grants · $6.7M
$404,436
Median grant
4
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania$3,261,331
Norwalk Hospital Association and Norwalk Hospital Foundation Inc$2,007,077
Family Centers Inc$581,410
Carver Foundation of Norwalk Inc$454,925
Carnegie Hall Corp$404,436
New York Public Radio$227,463
Filling in the Blanks Inc$177,466
Hartley House Inc$50,489
Juilliard School$37,477
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $2.9M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%Hartley House Inc: $50k → 18%Filling in the Blanks Inc: $177k → 9%Hartley House Inc: $50k → 18%Filling in the Blanks: $152k → 9%Filling in the Blanks Inc: $150k → 9%Filling in the Blanks Inc: $150k → 9%Carver Foundation of Norwalk Inc: $455k → 9%Carver Foundation of Norwalk Inc: $408k → 9%Carver Foundation of Norwalk Inc: $404k → 9%Carver Foundation of Norwalk Inc: $400k → 9%Carver Foundation of Norwalk Inc: $400k → 9%Hartley House: $51k → 17%Hartley House: $50k → 17%Hartley House Inc: $50k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$18M · 11 repeat orgs$401k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +57% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

$18M
$401k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+57%
+26%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • FC
    FAMILY CENTERS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.7M · revenue +101%
  • TC
    THE CARVER INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.1M · revenue +89%
  • TC
    THE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.0M · revenue +51%

Funded once

  • DL
    DARIEN LIBRARY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $350k · revenue +26%
  • NT
    NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC
    one grant, 2020 · $51k · revenue -9%

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

04Your field

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.

1
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

2
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
3
The Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
4
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
5
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
6
The Graduate Center Foundation Inc

The graduate center foundation is committed to promoting and safe-guarding the success of the graduate center by raising funds and managing and investing donations for use by the graduate center. the board of trustees of the foundation…

7
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
8
Nuvance Health Medical Practice Ct Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

9
University of New Haven

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…

Education
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Drexel University

Drexel university fulfills its founder's vision of preparing each new generation of students for productive professional and civic lives while also focusing its collective expertise on solving society's greatest problems. drexel is an…

Education
12
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbor to Neighbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania. 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

13 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $12,104,895 · EducationTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA+2 more — $444,763 · EducationNorwalk Hospital Foundation — $6,516,941 · HealthNorwalk Hospital Founda…FAMILY CENTERS INC — $2,735,249 · OtherFAMILY CENTERS IN…New York Eye and Ear Infirmary of Mount Sinai — $1,999,367 · OtherNew York Eye and …+1 more — $50,592 · OtherTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $2,004,274 · Arts & CultureTHE CARNEGI…NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $1,028,076 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK PU…THE CARVER INC — $2,067,163 · Human ServicesTHE CARVER…FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $629,405 · Human ServicesFILLING IN…HARTLEY HOUSE INC — $151,235 · Human ServicesTHE HARTLEY HOUSE — $100,868 · Human ServicesNORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC — $1,050,731 · Community Improvement
Education$12,549,658Health$6,516,941Other$4,785,208Arts & Culture$3,032,350Human Services$2,948,671Community Improvement$1,050,731

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUSTEES OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA — $12,104,895 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation — $6,516,941 over 4y, 18% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $2,735,249 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetTHE CARVER INC — $2,067,163 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetTHE CARNEGIE HALL CORPORATION — $2,004,274 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetNORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC — $1,050,731 over 2y, 13% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO — $1,028,076 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $629,405 over 4y, 6.3% of budgetDARIEN LIBRARY INC — $350,076 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetHARTLEY HOUSE INC — $151,235 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE HARTLEY HOUSE — $100,868 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetJUILLIARD SCHOOL — $94,687 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC — $50,592 over 1y, 1.4% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

Amazonsmile FoundationWA3.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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 Harold W McGraw Jr Family Foundation Inc c/o Cummings & Lockwood 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 20%
  • Family Centers Inc20% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc16% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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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How do I get to The Harold W McGraw Jr Family Foundation Inc c/o Cummings & Lockwood?

Find your warmest path to The Harold W McGraw Jr Family Foundation Inc c/o Cummings & Lockwood 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 14 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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