· Private foundation
The Queenan Fdn Acct
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 $10k48 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $16k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEES N TREES CHARITIES | $16,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| MEGAN BUTZ LEGACY OF HOPE | $7,000 |
| ST MARKS CHURCH | $6,000 |
| SAIL BEYOND CANCER ANNAPOLIS INC | $6,000 |
| WIDESPOT PERFORMING ARTS CENTER AND COMM | $4,500 |
| NEW CANAAN LIBRARY | $4,000 |
| JONES FDN FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE | $3,000 |
| WAMC NORTHEAST PUBLIC RADIO | $3,000 |
| SKIDMORE COLLEGE | $3,000 |
| ST ALOYSIUS PARISH | $3,000 |
| THE PEOPLE'S PANTRY | $2,500 |
| GETABOUT INC | $2,500 |
| VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE BERKSHIRES | $2,500 |
| JAMES B NACHMAN PEDIATRIC CANCER FUND | $2,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
59 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 6 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $12k 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
- SCSKIDMORE COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $18k · revenue +27%
- FFFOUNDATION FOR SMFM2× · 2021–2022 · $13k · revenue +59%
WHYY INC2× · 2022–2023 · $13k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- PFPREGNANCY FOUNDATION - QUEENAN FOUNDATIOone grant, 2020 · $10k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ADVANCEMENT CENTone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SMSAINT MARKS CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $6k
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…
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The nber conducts unbiased, non-partisan economic research and communicates the findings of that research to academic researchers, policy-makers, and business professionals. (continued on schedule o)
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waveny Lifecare Network 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 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
52 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. 52 of the 93 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 SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds MEGAN BUTZ LEGACY OF HOPE ↗
- Who funds SAIL BEYOND CANCER ANNAPOLIS INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR SMFM ↗
- Who funds WHYY INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT BARRINGTON LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BELLARMINE JESUIT RETREAT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC ↗
- Who funds TWIN CITIES PUBLIC TELEVISION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE PEOPLES PANTRY ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR REPRODUCTIVE MEDICINE ↗
- Who funds CONSTRUCT INC ↗
- Who funds BALLET WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ASPEN CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES ↗
- Who funds GETABOUT INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN WATER FOR CHILDREN 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: New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Half Moon Foundation · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · Squier Family Foundation · Jeniam Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · The Seelert Foundation Inc · The Morris Family Foundation · The Buchwald Family Foundation · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · MLE 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 Queenan Fdn Acct 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.
- Chesapeake Bay Trust — 100% of income from government
- Railroad Street Youth Project Inc — 45% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Glen Echo Park Partnership for Arts and Culture Inc — 5% of income from government
- Construct Inc — 4% of income from government
- Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College — 1% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc — 1% 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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