· Public charity
Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc
The westport weston family ymca enriches the community by developing and nurturing youth, promoting healthy living for all and fostering social responsibility.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 24 grants below total $277,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $315,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $37,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $193k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY | $20,000 |
| STAPLES TUITION GRANTS | $20,000 |
| MERCY LEARNING CENTER | $19,000 |
| PROJECT MORRY | $19,000 |
| CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK | $15,000 |
| HORIZONS GFA | $15,000 |
| HORIZONS AT NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOLSACRED HEART | $15,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA | $15,000 |
| WAKEMAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $12,500 |
| NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY | $12,500 |
| MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER | $10,000 |
| SHEPHERDS INC | $10,000 |
| HCC FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
| NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION | $8,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $520k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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.
35 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- AJADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $172k · revenue ×24
- MLMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC8× · 2017–2024 · $171k · revenue +37%
- MCMORRY'S CAMP INC8× · 2017–2024 · $170k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- COCOUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF GREATER BRIDGEPORT INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CYCONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -18%
- HSHUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +10%
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.
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The university promotes academic excellence, personal responsibility and commitment to service. distinctive curricula in an international, culturally diverse supportive learning environment prepare graduates for life and leadership in an…
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Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
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The Avery Coonley School elevates high-achieving and gifted learners through immersion in a mutually talented community where intellect, curiosity, and creativity are enhanced by optimal challenge.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cardinal Shehan Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridgeport Caribe Youth Leaders 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 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
41 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. 41 of the 45 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 ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MORRY'S CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds STAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc ↗
- Who funds URBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE OF WESTPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST BRIDGEPORT ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMART KIDS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECT US INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds THE RIVERBROOK REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SILVERMINE GUILD OF ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MOCA CT INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALKSTAMFORD GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION 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 · The Near and Far Association Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inc · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · The John and Ethel Kashulon 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 Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct 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.
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
- Human Services Council Inc — 27% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% of income from government
- Mcgivney Community Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 1% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association — 0% of income from government
- The Riverbrook Regional Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc — 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.
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