How much does William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd give?

William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd reported 33 grants totaling $136,050 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 33 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Education (28%), Human Services (8%).

Who are William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Hospital For Special Care ($117k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($78k), The Hospital of Central Connecticut ($51k).

Does William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.

Which funders back the same organizations as William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, American Savings Foundation Inc, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.

Where is William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd based?

William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd is based in CT.

William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd

William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd at a glance

· Private foundation

William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$136k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$11k

Largest

01What it funds

0192% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$345kEducation$296kHuman Services$84kFood & Nutrition$63kArts & Culture$55kAnimals$46kInternational$36kRecreation & Sports$29kOther$0

02FY2025 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k31 grants · $115k
$10k–50k2 grants · $21k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$957k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
DANA FARBER CANCER INST	$11,000
TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION	$10,000
Individual grant recipient	$9,100
Individual grant recipient	$7,000
STOP & SHOP FOOD SHARE	$7,000
FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION	$6,000
SUSAN G KOMEN	$5,500
Individual grant recipient	$5,000
SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN	$5,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS	$5,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION	$5,000
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART	$5,000
FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDAT	$4,000
VETERANS BASE CAMP	$4,000
Individual grant recipient	$4,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$1.0M · 46 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +38% for those funded once.

46 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 17 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.0M

$43k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%

+38%

Still filing today

50%

31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalRecreation & SportsArts & CultureOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc
9× · 2017–2025 · $78k · revenue +162%
TH
The Hospital of Central Connecticut
6× · 2017–2022 · $51k · revenue +109%
NB
NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +99%

Funded once

CI
CCARC INCgraduated
one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +40%
TO
TOWN OF GLASTONBURY
one grant, 2021 · $5k
CC
CAMP COURANT INCgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +54%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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

Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health

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

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

University Hospital & Clinics Inc

The organization provides medical care to improve, maintain, and restore the health of the people in the communities we serve.

Health

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

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education

President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

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

Health

Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health

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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Veterans Base Camp Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

31 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 31 of the 66 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

31/31

Grantees still filing

25/31

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$466,460Health$289,500Education$148,175Human Services$65,575Arts & Culture$43,500International$35,800Recreation & Sports$4,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Aetna Foundation IncCT22.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Petit Family Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater New Britain · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Robert C Vance Char Fdn · The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd. Bigger dots raise more.

2024

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

8get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home