· Private foundation
The James and Wendy Agah Family Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| THE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
29 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 2 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +23%
GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $57k · revenue +40%- AAALS ANGELS INC6× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- UFUWM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $20k
- ROREGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGANone grant, 2020 · $10k
- MFMUSICIANS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · 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.
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
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…
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
Wnet is a multi-media public service non-profit that delivers lifelong learning and meaningful experiences to our communities. our content inspires curiosity, encourages action and nurtures dreams.
Founded in 1915, webster is a private non-profit and global university that is committed to delivering high-quality learning experiences that transform students for global citizenship and individual excellence.
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
See schedule oustelecom exists to ensure members can compete, grow and thrive to build a world where families, enterprises and communities are connected through the power of broadband.our member companies have committed a considerable…
Wmf is the leading independent organization devoted to safeguarding the world's most treasured places to enrich people's lives and build mutual understanding across cultures and communities. the organization is headquartered in new york…
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wake Forest University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
40 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. 40 of the 51 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 WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds ALS ANGELS INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUZUKI MUSIC SCHOOL OF WESTPORT INC ↗
- Who funds THE UWM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ricks Place Inc ↗
- Who funds HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Child Advocates of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM SPEAKS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE HOPE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIVIDED SKY FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Creative Arts Workshops for Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds ROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATER MISSIONS INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CAMPING UNLIMITED FOR THE DEVELOPMENTALLY DISABLED ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITAS NORTH AMERICA ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Endowment Foundation · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Jpmorgan Chase 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 James and Wendy Agah Family 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.
- Ricks Place Inc — 30% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
- Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Suzuki Music School of Westport Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association — 0% 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.