· Private foundation
The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k19 grants · $225k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $1.2M
- $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION | $613,144 |
| FOUNDATION OF NUVANCE HEALTH | $503,979 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $250,706 |
| YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL | $250,140 |
| CURE ALZHEIMER'S FUND | $247,050 |
| PEGASUS THERAPUTIC RIDING | $201,668 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $152,207 |
| THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL | $150,516 |
| DARIEN TECH COMM FOUNDATION | $150,000 |
| WESTERLY HOSPITAL | $150,000 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| DUKE UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| THE UNITED THEATER | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $15,000 |
| ST LUKE'S CHURCH | $15,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $170k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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 +34% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
55 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $526k 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
- THTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +57%
- ADALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +147%
- YNYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +34%
Funded once
The Madeira Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +157%- TDTHE DARIEN FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2020 · $233k · revenue +3% · 35% of their budget
- AAAMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -31%
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.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
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…
Darrow school is dedicated to serving students with diverse backgrounds and abilities, building on each student's talents and interests to inspire enduring confidence for success in college and life. this mission is accomplished through…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
Open space preservation in darien, connecticut
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated 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 41 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 73 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 THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Madeira School ↗
- Who funds THE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DUKE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds East Beach Association ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRITUAL FINANCE INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Darien Community Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATCH HILL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds DARIEN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE 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: 522 Foundation Inc · The Goodnow Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Pieter and Yvette Eenkema Van Dijk Foundation · The Rogers Family Foundation · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · The Darien Foundation Inc · The Weil Foundation · Robert & Diana Borman Family Charitable Foundation · Alexandra Foundation · The Catherine Jefferson Foundation Inc · Grune 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 organization The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc 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.
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- The Community Fund of Darien — 9% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Darien Nature Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 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.