How much did THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 54% of THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

educational childrenhealthadult educationeducation jobjob trainingriskhomeless

2021

parentingeducational childrenriskfairfieldhealthhomelessadult education

2022

educational childrenadult educationeducation jobjob traininghealthhomelessrisk

2023

educational childrenriskhomelessadult educationeducation jobjob traininghealth

2024

educational childrenriskhomelesshealthadult educationeducation jobjob training

2025

children education

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 87 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k26 grants · $197k
$10k–50k61 grants · $855k

$10,000

Median grant

States reached

$1.8M

Total assets

Largest grants

PERSON-TO-PERSON INC$25,000
LIBERATION PROGRAMS INC$25,000
STERLING COMMUNITY CENTER INC$25,000
OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC$25,000
HORIZONS GREENS FARMS ACADEMY$25,000
BOYS & GIRLS VILLAGE INC$25,000
EMERGE INC$25,000
BRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC$25,000
HORIZONS BRIDGEPORT$25,000
HORIZONS AT SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$25,000
THE CARVER INC$22,500
MALTA HOUSE INC$20,000
HEALING TREE$15,000
KIDS IN CRISIS$15,000
DANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY INC$15,000

02The need

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.

None of your grants could be placed against cost of living need for this view.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$6.2M · 122 repeat orgs$745k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

122 repeat relationships — 47 still active in FY2025, 75 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

122

Total granted

$6.2M

$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%

+18%

Still filing today

59%

23%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $447k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentArts & CultureOther

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

PI
PERSON-TO-PERSON INC
7× · 2018–2025 · $160k · revenue +19%
TC
THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC
6× · 2018–2024 · $147k · revenue +114%
BR
BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC
6× · 2018–2024 · $120k · revenue +55%

Funded once

FC
FAIRFIELD COUNTY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2021 · $50k
TM
THOMAS MERTON
one grant, 2023 · $25k
CF
CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK
one grant, 2024 · $15k

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

04Your field

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.

Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services

United Way of Connecticut Inc

The mission of united way of connecticut is to help the people of connecticut to thrive through trusted partnerships and innovative solutions.

Philanthropy

New Haven Works Inc

New haven works connects new haven residents to good jobs and employers to qualified pre-screened candidates.

Education

Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

To develop and advocate public policies to allow for decent and affordable housing in ct.

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Connecticut Court Appointed Special

Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.

Crime & Legal

Burroughs Community Center Inc

To provide residents of bridgeport, ct with program opportunities and facility resources to promote individual growth and community cohesiveness.

Recreation & Sports

Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health

The Children's Community Programs of Ct

The children's community programs of ct is a private, nonprofit, multi-service agency. we are committed to providing diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut to ensure that "every child counts."

Health

New Neighborhoods Inc

New neighborhoods, inc.'s purpose is to develop, redevelop, own and manage quality housing for low and moderate income persons and families and to work to assist in the planning, re-planning, development and improvement of low and moderate…

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Connecticut Association for

The connecticut association for community action and its member agencies are a statewide network that strengthens communities, empowers families, promotes public policy, develops leaders and implements strategies that address the causes…

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Community Action Agency of

Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.

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Child Advocates of Connecticut Inc

Recruit/train/supervise volunteers that ensure abused & neglected children have a safe home.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Future 5 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 37 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/102

the rest of the field

595/6,351

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.

05the grantee network

101 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

98/101

Grantees still filing

78/101

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$4,047,500Human Services$1,162,500Housing & Shelter$583,000Education$512,000Philanthropy$262,500Youth Development$217,500Health$180,000

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.

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.

Fairfield County's Community FoundationCT151.3× affinity79 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Impact 100 Fairfield County · Peoples United Community Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association Of · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund

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 organisation THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: HEALING TREE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 061477660 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on HEALING TREE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 41% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

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How do I get to The Near and Far Association Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Near and Far Association Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

101 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Near and Far Association Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

101 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Near and Far Association Inc?

More from the funding graph