· Private foundation
The Mhg Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $38k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOSTON COLLEGE | $62,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL TRUST | $60,000 |
| FCA (FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY) | $27,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION | $5,000 |
| REACH PREP | $5,000 |
| WATERSIDE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| SOUNDWATERS | $2,000 |
| THE PROSPECTOR THEATER | $1,500 |
| IMPACT FAIRFIELD | $1,100 |
| ABILIS | $1,000 |
| GREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
| COFFEE FOR GOOD - CAF | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD | $1,000 |
| PACS1 FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, 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 +35% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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
TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $524k · revenue +70%- GCGREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2023 · $222k · revenue +182%
- CHChildren's Hospital Corporation3× · 2022–2024 · $180k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +27%
- TMTHE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTERone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -92%
DWIGHT HALL AT YALEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +168%
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
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…
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of south shore charter school is to cultivate students the tenacity, integrity, and curiosity needed to become innovative and socially responsible leaders, ready to face and solve the ever-changing challenges facing our…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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 Greenwich Point Conservancy Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 49 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 TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MOUNT SINAI MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds REACH PREP INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH POINT CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ABILIS INC ↗
- Who funds THE GLADNEY CENTER FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SEA EDUCATION ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL FOR FIELD STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY ↗
- Who funds COFFEE FOR GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds LEARNINGSPRING SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DWIGHT HALL AT YALE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds Child Advocates of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN 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 · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Half Moon Foundation · The O'Herron Family Foundation · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · The Queenan Fdn Acct · The Bauer Family Foundation Inc · MLE Foundation Inc · Jeniam Foundation · The Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio
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 Mhg 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.
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- Sea Education Association Inc — 12% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% 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.