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The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney

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.

$22k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
7
Grants FY2025
3
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$500
Largest grant, FY2025
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
3 to 12
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
2
Total assets, FY2025
$473k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePublic BenefitHealthOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving7$22k14%
FY20243$21k0%
FY20233$21k0%
FY20228$24k13%
FY20217$11k14%
FY20204$14k0%
FY201912$18k33%
FY20186$9k17%
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

International$109kEducation$28kArts & Culture$14kCivil Rights$1kPublic Benefit$350Health$200Environment$137Community Improvement$100Other$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

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Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($550), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetChild Aid: $109,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetThe Hewitt School: $28,370 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $4,200 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $3,960 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSolomon R Guggenheim Foundation: $2,080 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPro Publica Inc: $1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Citizen Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSmithsonian Institution: $625 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of the City of New York: $450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Look Institute Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $280 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Immigration Law Center: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $140 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of Reservations: $137 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Asia Society: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences: $125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPublic Citizen Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTransportation Alternatives Inc: $100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Wildlife Federation: $15 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 20.

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.

American Online Giving Foundation IncDE7.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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.

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About The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney

How much does The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney give?
The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney reported 7 grants totaling $22,225 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 12 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are International (71%), Education (19%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Child Aid ($109k), The Hewitt School ($28k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($4k).
Does The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
Where is The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney based?
The Somerset East Foundation Inc Co Michael Romney is based in CT.

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 23 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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