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The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$3.0M
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
8
States reached
$613k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$7.3MHealth$5.5MScience & Tech$900kArts & Culture$670kEnvironment$172kHuman Services$140kReligion$123kPublic Safety & Disaster$121kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k18 grants · $50k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $225k
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $1.2M
  • $250k+4 grants · $1.6M
$10,000
Median grant
8
States reached
$56M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
WESTERLY HOSPITAL$150,000
DARIEN TECH COMM FOUNDATION$150,000
DUKE UNIVERSITY$50,000
WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY$50,000
THE UNITED THEATER$20,000
DARIEN LIBRARY$15,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$15,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%SPIRITUAL FINANCE INITIATIVE: $12k → 11%SPIRITUAL FINANCE INITIATIVE: $11k → 11%BRADYSSMILE: $1k → 9%SPIRITUAL FINANCE INITIATIVE: $9k → 11%SPIRITUAL FINANCE INITIATIVE: $9k → 11%SPIRITUAL FINANCE INITIATIVE: $8k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $20k → 14%SPIRITUAL FINANCE INITIATIVE: $7k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $10k → 14%DARIEN YMCA: $10k → 9%DARIEN YMCA: $10k → 9%DARIEN YMCA: $5k → 9%DARIEN YMCA: $5k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $2k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $2k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $2k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $2k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $2k → 9%AT HOME IN DARIEN: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
OH
CT
RI
VA
MD
NM
NC
DC
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$14M · 55 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +3% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
11

Total granted

$14M
$762k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+3%

Still filing today

67%
64%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $526k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TH
    THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.7M · revenue +57%
  • AD
    ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +147%
  • YN
    YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL
    6× · 2020–2025 · $1.5M · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • The Madeira Schoolgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $500k · revenue +157%
  • TD
    THE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $233k · revenue +3% · 35% of their budget
  • AA
    AMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -31%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Trustees of Dartmouth College

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.

Education
2
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
3
Darrow School

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…

Education
4
Dean College

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,…

Education
5
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

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).

Health
6
Daemen University

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…

Education
7
Land Trust of Darien Inc

Open space preservation in darien, connecticut

Environment
8
Fordham University

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.

Education
9
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

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…

Education
10
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
11
Rhode Island School of Design

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…

Education
12
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated; 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.
04the grantee network

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2026, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $1,650,706 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOLWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,302,896 · EducationWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITYCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,113,144 · EducationCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATEDTRINITY COLLEGE: $510,403 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGEThe Madeira School: $500,000 · EducationThe Madeira SchoolDUKE UNIVERSITY: $300,000 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $250,000 · EducationTHE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC: $232,694 · Education+3 more: $146,500 · EducationALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,511,480 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH F…YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $1,509,169 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITALNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $600,000 · HealthNorwalk Hospital FoundationTHE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $356,044 · HealthTHE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATI…+4 more: $140,500 · HealthTRINITY COLLEGE ANNUAL FUND: $1,140,375 · OtherTRINITY COLLEGE ANNUAL FUNDDARIEN TECH COMM FOUNDATION: $900,000 · OtherDARIEN TECH COMM FOUNDATIONFOUNDATION OF NUVANCE HEALTH: $503,979 · OtherFOUNDATION OF NUVANCE HEALTHWESTERLY HOSPITAL: $393,956 · OtherWESTERLY HOSPITALSTAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $350,706 · OtherSTAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION+36 more: $759,018 · Other+36 moreTHE OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATRE INC: $533,683 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $16,500 · Arts & CulturePEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $251,668 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 · Human ServicesSPIRITUAL FINANCE INITIATIVE INC: $55,275 · Human ServicesDARIEN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesAT HOME IN DARIENINC: $9,000 · Human Services+1 more: $1,000 · Human ServicesTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $70,000 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON INC: $40,000 · Philanthropy
Education$6,006,343Health$4,117,193Other$4,048,034Arts & Culture$550,183Recreation & Sports$256,668Human Services$170,275Philanthropy$110,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $1,650,706 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION: $1,511,480 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $1,509,169 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY: $1,302,896 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $1,113,144 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $600,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetTHE OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATRE INC: $533,683 over 3y, 13% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $510,403 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Madeira School: $500,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $356,044 over 2y, 14% of budgetDUKE UNIVERSITY: $300,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetPEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC: $251,668 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $250,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC: $232,694 over 1y, 35% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $75,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDARIEN LIBRARY INC: $75,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $70,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetEast Beach Association: $70,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $70,000 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetHANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC: $60,000 over 6y, 3.2% of budgetSPIRITUAL FINANCE INITIATIVE INC: $55,275 over 6y, 31% of budgetDarien Community Association Inc: $43,200 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDARIEN EMS POST 53 INC: $40,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetDARIEN NATURE CENTER INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WATCH HILL CONSERVANCY: $31,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetDARIEN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetASCENT SOCCER USA: $25,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTuxedo Park School: $25,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN AUSTRALIAN ASSOCIATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetA BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN INC: $10,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetAT HOME IN DARIENINC: $9,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetWatch Hill Memorial Library and Improvement Society: $6,500 over 5y, 13% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetDARIEN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $6,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetNEW MEXICO FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDARIEN ARTS CENTER INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDARIEN POLICE ASSOCIATION INC: $3,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY INITIATIVE CORPORATION: $1,200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRADYS SMILE: $1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTREKKING FOR KIDS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds East Beach Association ↗
  • 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 PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 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 ↗
  • Who funds ASCENT SOCCER USA ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

522 Foundation IncThe Goodnow FundFairfield County's Co…Pieter and Yvette Een…The Rogers Family Fou…The Edward E Hood Jr …The Darien Foundation…The Weil FoundationRobert & Diana Borman…Alexandra FoundationThe Catherine Jeffers…Grune Family Foundati…
522 Foundation IncCT24.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home