· Private foundation
The Velaj Foundation
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $6k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $170k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAMFORD MUSEUM AND NATURE CENTER | $60,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| EDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT | $50,000 |
| FAMILY CENTERS INC | $25,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC | $25,000 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTY LITERACY COALITION | $15,000 |
| FILLING IN THE BLANKS | $15,000 |
| KANSAS UNIVERSITY ENDOWMENT ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| GREENWICH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,200 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,100 |
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 (FY17–25, $35k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% 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 +53% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 4 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k 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
- SMStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $150k · revenue +56%
- MRMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $143k · revenue +68%
- PTPERSON TO PERSON INC5× · 2018–2022 · $90k · revenue +30%
Funded once
- KIKIDS IN CRISIS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $11k · revenue +32%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $5k
- SSSIMPLY SMILES INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -59%
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…
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
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…
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.
Greenwood's mission is to create career pathways in the financial services industry for black and latino college students. we partner with companies to find equitable and inclusive solutions for recruitment, retention, and advancement. our…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Global greengrants fund seeds grassroots environmental action and social justice through small grants. we support change from the ground up by channeling donations to local projects and grassroots campaigns for environmental justice around…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Convoy of Hope and the most unlike its peers is Cool Earth Action Usa 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 31 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 — 0.0% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 72 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 EDUCATION FOR EMPLOYMENT ↗
- Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds ROUND HILL NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH SCHOLARSHIP ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Literacy Coalition Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET BOOK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY SMILES INC ↗
- Who funds FINAL VICTORY ANIMAL RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds Mary's Meals USA Inc ↗
- Who funds Friends of Greenwich Crew Inc ↗
- Who funds The Kansas University Endowment Association ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds BEN JACKSON FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LOGGERHEAD MARINELIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ABILIS 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 · Peoples United Community Foundation · Claire L Helsing Foundation · Howard and Amy Finkelstein Foundation Inc · Rich Foundation Inc · Simmons Family Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Schwartz Family Foundation · Malkin Fund Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Synchrony 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 Velaj 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.
- Mill River Collaborative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Child Rescue Coalition Inc — 20% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich — 7% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc — 3% of income from government
- Nantucket Book Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association — 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.