· Private foundation
The Oaklawn Foundationinc
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 placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k35 grants · $914k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $166k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE HILL SCHOOL | $65,500 |
| WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY | $50,000 |
| COLBY COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| KIDS IN CRISIS | $45,000 |
| MOUNT DORA CHRISTIAN ACADEMY & CHILDREN'S HOME | $45,000 |
| UNC WILMINGTON | $40,000 |
| SCSU FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| STAMFORD MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTER | $37,750 |
| SOUNDWATERS | $35,000 |
| DOMUS KIDS INC | $35,000 |
| WATERSIDE SCHOOL | $35,000 |
| CHOATE-ROSEMARY HALL | $35,000 |
| ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY | $32,500 |
| BRUNSWICK SCHOOL | $32,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB GREENWICH | $31,500 |
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, $123k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +27% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 8 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $49k 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 HILL SCHOOL6× · 2020–2025 · $360k · revenue +17%
- KIKIDS IN CRISIS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $265k · revenue +67%
The President and Trustees of Colby College6× · 2020–2025 · $246k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- WLWILTON LITTLE LEAGUE INCone grant, 2022 · $5k
- MIMEALS-ON-WHEELS INCone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -4%
- MPMANLIUS PEBBLE HILL SCHOOL INCone grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +21%
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…
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.
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…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…
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…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
South kent school is an independent, college-preparatory school for boys. since its founding, south kent has maintained ties with the episcopal church. three principles define the school: simplicity of life, self-reliance, and directness…
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greenwich Academy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stamford Little League. 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 52 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
58 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 58 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 HILL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds The President and Trustees of Colby College ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH ↗
- Who funds INNER CITY SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE CUMBERLANDS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HILLSDALE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE WORKPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER ON THE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds WOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WAKE FOREST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Center for Educational Innovation Inc ↗
- Who funds BETSYS PARK ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Northwestern University ↗
- Who funds STARK MOUNTAIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc ↗
- Who funds MANHATTAN INSTITUTE FOR POLICY RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD 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 · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community 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 Oaklawn Foundationinc 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.
- The Workplace Inc — 100% of income from government
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Laurel House Inc — 68% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Pathways Inc — 45% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc — 12% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Friends of Ambler Farm Inc — 7% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc — 3% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Wilton Library Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 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.
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