· Private foundation
The James & Mary Ellen Marpe 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE JAMES & MARY ELLEN MARPE FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k34 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $23k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | $11,711 |
| ORCHESTRA LUMOS | $11,000 |
| GREENS FARMS CHURCH | $8,200 |
| COLORECTAL CANCER ALLIANCE (BOTTOMS UP) | $5,000 |
| NEAR AND FAR AID ASSOCIATION | $4,500 |
| FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY | $3,000 |
| WESTPORT PARKS & RECREATIONWAKEMAN TOWN FARM | $2,500 |
| WESTPORT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $2,250 |
| WESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| OUR COMPANIONS ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
| CATCH-A-LIFT FUND | $699 |
| EARTHPLACE NATURE CENTER | $600 |
| CLASP HOMES | $600 |
| CT CHALLENGE | $525 |
| PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY | $515 |
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 (FY19–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 94% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 30 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 6 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $690 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
- OLORCHESTRA LUMOS INC7× · 2019–2025 · $50k · revenue +20%
- WLWESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +19%
CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2024 · $10k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- GFGREENS FARM CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHone grant, 2019 · $7k
- NYNEW YORK BOARD OF RABBIS INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
- NFNEAR FAR AIDone grant, 2020 · $5k
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 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…
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…
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
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…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The business council of westchester's mission is to work hard to grow the economy, create jobs and build a strong business community in westchester county.
The mission of the als united connecticut is to provide comprehensive support to improve quality of life for people with als and their families, while advocating for increased support and advancing innovative research for new treatments…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearing Loss Association of America. 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 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 120 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 ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER COFFLAND MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Riedel and Cody Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds OUR COMPANIONS DOMESTIC ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds MOCA CT INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE OF WESTPORT INC ↗
- Who funds CLASP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds STAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT UNIFORMED FIREFIGHTERS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PIVOT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTCHESTER GOLF ASSOCIATION CADDIE SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC ↗
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 · CORA Ventures Foundation aka CORA Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Westport Rotary Club Foundation Inc · Smilow Foundation · The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation · Elizabeth and Ihab Massoud Family Foundation · Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation · The Gendell Family Foundation Inc · The Rhimes Foundation · The Driesman Charitable Trust
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 & Mary Ellen Marpe 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.
- Clasp Homes Inc — 91% of income from government
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp — 11% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Orchestra Lumos Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 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.
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