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The Neag Foundation at a glance

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The Neag Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$7.3M
Granted FY2021
25
Grants FY2021
2
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0175% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Education$4.5MFood & Nutrition$700kArts & Culture$535kHealth$375kYouth Development$300kHousing & Shelter$245kPhilanthropy$50kReligion$14kOther$0
02FY2021 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 25 grants below total $6,776,888, the rows itemized in this filing. The $7,333,053 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $556,165 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2021

  • $10k–50k7 grants · $162k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+7 grants · $5.5M
$90,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$93M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc$3,500,000
GoggleWorks$500,000
University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc$400,000
Boys and Girls Club of Hartford$300,000
Reading Area Community College$300,000
Connecticut Foodbank$300,000
Connecticut Institue for the Blind$250,000
Opportunity House$200,000
Connecticut Foodbank$150,000
Foodshare, Inc$150,000
Caron Foundation$125,000
Reading Science Center$100,000
University of Connecticut Foundation, Inc$90,000
Community Kitchen of Torrington$50,000
FISH/ Friends in Service to Humanity of Northwestern Connecticut$50,000
02Its 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
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
2
Reading Hospital

Website: www.towerhealth.org/locations/reading-hospital the mission of reading hospital is to provide compassionate, accessible, high-quality, cost-effective healthcare to the community; to promote health; to education healthcare…

Health
3
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
4
Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania

The trustees of the university of pennsylvania (the "university") sees itself as having a public service mission. in such regard, the university aims to provide a rich and diverse educational environment for its students; to pioneer…

Education
5
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
6
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
7
Bentley University

Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…

Education
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
The Connecticut Community Empowerment Foundation Inc

The connecticut community empowerment foundation inc.which operates as rereads books & more, a used bookseller, raises awareness and acceptance of individuals with intellectual, developmental and physical disabilities. the foundation…

Human Services
10
Connecticut College

Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.

Education
11
The Food Trust

The food trust (tft), a nonprofit founded in philadelphia in 1992, strives to make healthy food available to all.continued on schedule otft is a regional and national leader in developing new strategies to prevent childhood obesity and…

Food & Nutrition
12
Helping Harvest Fresh Food Bank

Since its inception in 1983, the mission of helping harvest fresh food bank (hh) is to provide nutritious food to people facing hunger in our communities. in 2024, hh distributed more than 10.5 million pounds of food to low income…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Foodshare Inc; the most unlike its peers is Alvernia University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 18 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
12/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $3,990,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $450,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCReading Area Community College: $322,148 · OtherReading Area Community Col…Boys and Girls Club of Hartford: $300,000 · OtherBoys and Girls Club of Har…Connecticut Institue for the Blind: $250,000 · OtherConnecticut Institue for t…FOODSHARE INC: $150,000 · OtherFOODSHARE INC+3 more: $109,328 · Other+3 moreGOGGLE WORKS: $500,000 · Arts & CultureGOGGLE WOR…READING SCIENCE CENTER: $100,000 · Arts & CultureREADING SC…+2 more: $35,000 · Arts & Culture+2 moreOPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $245,412 · Housing & ShelterFISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF: $100,000 · Housing & ShelterRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $125,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC: $50,000 · Human ServicesUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy
Education$3,990,000Other$1,581,476Arts & Culture$635,000Housing & Shelter$345,412Health$125,000Human Services$50,000Philanthropy$50,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $3,990,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetGOGGLE WORKS: $500,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $450,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITY HOUSE: $245,412 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $150,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRICHARD J CARON FOUNDATION: $125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF: $100,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetREADING SCIENCE CENTER: $100,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetALVERNIA UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC: $50,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BERKS COUNTY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBERKS YOUTH CHORUS INC: $20,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetREADING MUSICAL FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 1.0% 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.

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.

The Wyomissing Founda…Berks County Communit…The Breidegam Family …Henry Janssen Foundat…Penn Entertainment Fo…Firstenergy FoundationThe Cynthia and Jim B…Hammel Family Foundat…Marlin Miller Jr Fami…Berkshire Charitable …The Pfizer Foundation…Vanguard Charitable E…
The Wyomissing Foundation IncPA20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Wyomissing Foundation Inc · Berks County Community Foundation Inc · The Breidegam Family Foundation · Henry Janssen Foundation · Penn Entertainment Foundation · Firstenergy Foundation · The Cynthia and Jim Boscov Family Foundation · Hammel Family Foundation · Marlin Miller Jr Family Foundation · Berkshire Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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 18 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 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $4.9M of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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