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The Stewart B McKinney Foundation Inc

Its FY2023 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
4
States reached
$1.4M
Largest
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 FY20172023.

Philanthropy$1.4MHousing & Shelter$135kHuman Services$116kArts & Culture$61kEducation$56kHealth$47kAnimals$28kFood & Nutrition$24kOther$0
02FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under $10k9 grants · $41k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
  • $250k+1 grant · $1.4M
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT 1279463$1,431,652
UNBRIDLED THOROUGHBRED FOUNDATION$12,500
PINE ISLAND BEACON OF HOPE INC$10,000
ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY$10,000
MAKE A WISH WESTERN NEW YORK$9,600
FRIENDS OF CARLY$6,400
THE SILO AND HUNT HILL FARM$5,000
CROW (CLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE)$5,000
WESTPORT WESTON FAMILY YMCA$5,000
BUFFALO SABRES FOUNDATION$3,500
NORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$2,500
TEAM MOOSE RESCUE$2,500
DELAWARE SOCCER CLUB$1,500
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 (FY22–23, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%WESTPORT WESTON FAMILY YMCA: $21k → 9%WESTPORT WESTON FAMILY YMCA: $5k → 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.

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 63% of The Stewart B McKinney Foundation Inc’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 Stewart B McKinney Foundation Inclessmore 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.

20%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$381k · 12 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$381k
$62k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+30%

Still filing today

50%
40%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 2% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
Arts & CultureHealthYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHousing & ShelterEducationOther

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

  • AJ
    ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC
    5× · 2019–2023 · $46k · revenue +166%
  • TC
    The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc
    3× · 2018–2020 · $31k · revenue +25%
  • YM
    YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC
    2× · 2022–2023 · $26k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • NH
    Norwalk Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2019 · $25k · revenue -47%
  • AJ
    ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY PRESCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $10k
  • JD
    JUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +71%

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
Bridgeport Hospital

To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.

Health
2
Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc

To raise funds, reinvest and administer these funds and make distributions to danbury and new milford hospitals and other not-for profit health care affiliates.

Health
3
Long Island Community Hospital At Nyu Langone Health

The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…

4
Nuvance Health Medical Practice Ct Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

5
The Norwalk Hospital Association

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
6
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc

To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.

Health
7
Northeast Medical Group Inc

To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.

8
Wsnchs North Inc

We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.

Health
9
The Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
10
Newark-Wayne Community Hospital Foundation

To provide funds to or for the benefit of newark wayne community hospital, inc. by (a) soliciting, accepting, holding, investing, reinvesting and administering gifts, grants, bequests, contributions, devises, benefits of trusts, endowments…

Health
11
Western Connecticut Health Network Affiliates Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

12
Wmc-New York Inc

Wmc new york, inc. shall at all times be operated exclusively for charitable, scientific, and educational purposes within the meaning of section 170(c)(2)(b) and 501(c)(3) of the code, and for the purpose of engaging in various activities…

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of America and the most unlike its peers is Clinic for the Rehabilitation of Wildlife Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

15 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 15 of the 29 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
10/15
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT 1279463 — $1,431,652 · OtherFIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT 1279463PINE ISLAND BEACON OF HOPE INC — $60,000 · Other+18 more — $151,100 · Other+18 moreOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC — $121,000 · Housing & ShelterADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $45,500 · EducationNorwalk Hospital Foundation — $25,000 · HealthFRIENDS OF CARLY INC — $6,400 · HealthYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC — $25,500 · Human ServicesNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC — $23,500 · ReligionUNBRIDLED THOROUGHBRED FOUNDATION — $12,500 · Arts & CultureJUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $1,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$1,642,752Housing & Shelter$121,000Education$45,500Health$31,400Human Services$25,500Religion$23,500Arts & Culture$23,500

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 budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC — $121,000 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC — $45,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc — $30,800 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTPORT/WESTON CT INC — $25,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC — $23,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetUNBRIDLED THOROUGHBRED FOUNDATION — $12,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCLINIC FOR THE REHABILITATION OF WILDLIFE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNORTHERN CHAUTAUQUA COMMUNITY FOUND — $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBUFFALO SABRES FOUNDATION — $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF AMERICA — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDELAWARE SOCCER CLUB INC — $1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

The Near and Far Association IncCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Near and Far Association Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Stewart B McKinney Foundation 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 15%
  • Nourish Bridgeport Inc19% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc15% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc5% of income from government
  • Justice Dance Performance Project Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Stewart B McKinney Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Stewart B McKinney Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 29 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 2023, released 2023. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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