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The Orchard Farm Foundation

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.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$766k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$994kHousing & Shelter$392kHuman Services$243kEducation$236kPhilanthropy$232kArts & Culture$216kYouth Development$161kRecreation & Sports$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $432k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $710k
  • $250k+1 grant · $766k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUTISM SPEAKS$766,225
DOUG COOMBS FOUNDATION$150,000
LOUIS J CAPANO JRIII FAMILY FOUNDATION$150,000
MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC$125,000
WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION$100,000
VINCEREMOS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$70,000
FUTURE FIVE$65,000
STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER$50,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
GROUP FOR THE EAST END$35,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL$25,000
UNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY$25,000
ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER$25,000
GODDARD COLLEGE$25,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $5k → 17%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $20k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $15k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $13k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DE
SC
DC
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 10% of The Orchard Farm Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Orchard Farm Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 29 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
22

Total granted

$1.9M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+72%

Still filing today

69%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $909k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’21’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther

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

  • PH
    PACIFIC HOUSE INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +68%
  • TO
    THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $113k · revenue +8%
  • F5
    FUTURE 5 INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +268%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE INNER-CITY FOUNDATION FOR CHARITY & EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -100%
  • AI
    ABC INC OF NEW CANAANgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +247%
  • SF
    SERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED
    one grant, 2017 · $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.

1
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
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Connecticut Police Chiefs Association Inc

The connecticut police chiefs association is an organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life of the residents of the state of connecticut; to aiding other government bodies within and external to the state of connecticut in the…

—
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
7
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
8
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy

Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.

Philanthropy
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Digital Harbor Foundation

Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Harbor Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Louis J Capano Jriii Family Foundation. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Local History MuseumsCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesCommunity Arts CentersVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Military Veterans SupportChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Independent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…
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 40 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%16%10–20yr16%22%20–35yr13%45%35–55yr16%14%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%0%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%10%20–35yr13%59%35–55yr16%9%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
2%1/55
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,510

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

55 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. 55 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/55
Grantees still filing
37/55
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

AUTISM SPEAKS — $781,225 · OtherAUTISM SPEAKSCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $75,000 · OtherINSPIRICA INC — $73,000 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $65,000 · OtherWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION — $100,000 · OtherWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATIONTHE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC — $72,000 · Other+42 more — $654,502 · Other+42 morePACIFIC HOUSE INC — $132,000 · Housing & ShelterPACIFIC HO…THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC — $112,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE OPEN D…BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterBUILDING H…+1 more — $7,500 · Housing & ShelterThe Doug Coombs Foundation — $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUTURE 5 INC — $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $125,000 · Arts & CultureStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — $50,000 · Arts & CultureROWAYTON ARTS CENTER — $27,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more — $12,300 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUIS J CAPANO JRIII FAMILY FOUNDATION — $150,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $16,504 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON INC — $15,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $7,500 · PhilanthropyVinceremos Riding Center Inc — $70,000 · HealthCerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation — $10,000 · HealthCORPORATE ANGEL NETWORK INC — $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC — $5,000 · HealthTeach for America Inc — $32,500 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL — $25,000 · EducationGODDARD COLLEGE — $25,000 · EducationABC INC OF NEW CANAAN — $15,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC — $5,000 · Education+1 more — $500 · Education
Other$1,820,727Housing & Shelter$267,000Youth Development$225,000Arts & Culture$214,300Philanthropy$189,004Health$105,000Education$103,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation — $150,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE LOUIS J CAPANO JRIII FAMILY FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC — $132,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $125,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC — $112,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION — $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC — $75,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINSPIRICA INC — $73,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC — $72,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetVinceremos Riding Center Inc — $70,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $65,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC — $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE — $37,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC — $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION — $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROWAYTON ARTS CENTER — $27,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTHE INNER-CITY FOUNDATION FOR CHARITY & EDUCATION INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGODDARD COLLEGE — $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCAN-HARBOR INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION — $16,504 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABC INC OF NEW CANAAN — $15,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorwalk Police Fund Incorporated — $12,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetDARIEN POLICE ASSOCIATION INC — $12,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT STATE POLICE UNION INC — $12,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCORPORATE ANGEL NETWORK INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION INC — $7,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCongressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS HARBOR INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEXPECT MIRACLES FOUNDATION — $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
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 Co…New Canaan Community …The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundAlexander Family Foun…Connecticut Humanitie…FjcLeon N Lapine Residua…Rich Foundation IncThe Herbert & Nell Si…The Near and Far Asso…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Fjc · Leon N Lapine Residuary Trust · Rich Foundation Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association 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 Orchard Farm Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%5%19%42%75%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Rowayton Arts Center — 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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: 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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