How much did THE JAMES & MARY ELLEN MARPE FAMILY grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of THE JAMES & MARY ELLEN MARPE FAMILY’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

nyucancerresearchfairfieldfdtn

2020

violenceborders

2021

violence

2022

animalcancer

2023

educationguncanceraid

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k38 grants · $41k
$10k–50k2 grants · $51k

$525

Median grant

States reached

$201k

Total assets

Largest grants

WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE$27,286
ORCHESTRA LUMOS$23,500
GREENS FARMS CHURCH$8,000
COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE (BOTTOMS UP)$5,550
WESTPORT PARKS & RECREATIONWAKEMAN TOWN FARM$3,625
WESTPORT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION$3,036
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY$2,500
WESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION$2,000
HOMES WITH HOPE$1,530
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$1,160
CATCH-A-LIFT FUND$1,120
EARTHPLACE NATURE CENTER$1,050
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL$1,000
OUR COMPANIONS ANIMAL RESCUE$1,000
LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND$1,000

02The need

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 (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 87% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in 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, United Way ALICE — 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$553k · 52 repeat orgs$48k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

52 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$553k

$44k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+29%

Still filing today

35%

36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthCommunity ImprovementYouth DevelopmentOther

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

SS
STAMFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA
6× · 2019–2024 · $39k · revenue +20%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY
2× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +26%
WR
WESTPORT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2024 · $7k · revenue +646%

Funded once

GF
GREENS FARM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH
one grant, 2019 · $7k
NY
NEW YORK BOARD OF RABBIS
one grant, 2021 · $5k
NF
NEAR FAR AID
one grant, 2020 · $5k

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.

The Westport Woman's Club Incorporated

The club is a philanthropic organization dedicated to volunteerism and the raising of funds in support of the charitable, educational, cultural and public health services in westport, connecticut and surrounding towns.

Environment

Western Connecticut Area Agency

The western connecticut area agency on aging, inc. (wcaaa) develops, manages and provides comprehensive services through person centered planning for seniors, caregivers and individuals with disabilities in order to maintain their…

Human Services

Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

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

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Westport Police Association

To promote safety to the westport (ma) community.

Public Safety & Disaster

Waterbury Hospital Foundation

Facilitate equitable access to healthcare services for the greater waterbury community.

Health

Wilton Land Conservation Trust

PROTECTING, ENHANCING AND CONSERVING open spaces encompassing MEADOWS, WOODLANDS, AND WATERWAYS IN THE town of Wilton CT.

Environment

Westport Cinema Initiative

Promote cinemas for education

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Westford Community Access

To promote and encourage the use of public access resources to enhance a free and diverse exchange of ideas and interests that foster commuity participation and education.

Arts & Culture

Windham Hospital Foundation Inc

To generate resources that assist Windham Community Memorial Hospital in meeting health needs of the community.

Health

Friends of Westport Council On Aging Inc

Provide funding for programs and services to the elderly in westport, massachusetts.

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Western Connecticut State University

The purpose of the association is to establish & maintain a mutually beneficial relationship with western conn. state university

Education

Westbury Arts Inc

The organization was founded to deliver arts and cultural programs that connect, educate, and inspire the greater westbury, ny community. activities include concerts, shows, exhibits, lectures, etc.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is A Better Chance of Westport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Orchestra Lumos Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/45

the rest of the field

3,022/33,162

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

41/42

Grantees still filing

31/42

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$281,945Arts & Culture$267,743Education$23,017Community Improvement$17,754Human Services$3,852Youth Development$3,594Food & Nutrition$3,455

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.

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.

Fairfield County's Community FoundationCT37.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · CORA Ventures Foundation aka CORA Foundation · Westport Rotary Club Foundation Inc · Elizabeth and Joseph Massoud Family · Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation · Ge Foundation · The Stewart & Constance Greenfield · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · Smilow Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Gendell Family Foundation Inc

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 organisation THE JAMES & MARY ELLEN MARPE FAMILY 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

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

17get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: RIEDEL AND CODY FUND.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

high risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, no recent filing.

Legal standing

medium risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 272632175 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on RIEDEL AND CODY FUND, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
FlagSustained operations— No recent filing on record.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 4% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family?

Find your warmest path to The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE JAMES & MARY ELLEN MARPE FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family?

More from the funding graph

THE JAMES & MARY ELLEN MARPE FAMILY

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

42 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family?

More from the funding graph