· Private foundation
Albert and Helen Meserve Mem Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $130k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $85k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD | $20,000 |
| REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF | $12,500 |
| ANNS PLACE INC | $12,500 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF WESTERN CT I | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $10,000 |
| HILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC | $10,000 |
| FILLING IN THE BLANKS | $8,000 |
| FAMILY CHILDRENS AID INC | $7,500 |
| DANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| DANBURY YOUTH SERVICES INC | $5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNEC | $5,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD | $5,000 |
| LAUNDRY LOVE OF GREATER DANBURY | $4,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS FOR RIDGEFIELD | $4,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $144k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 12% 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.
48 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 11 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- APANNS PLACE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $70k · revenue +75%
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +46%
- FAFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- WCWESTERN CONNECTICUT ST UNIV FBOone grant, 2023 · $10k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +22%
- RYREGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2022 · $6k · revenue +14%
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.
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.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
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…
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sacred Heart University Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Ridgefield Historical Society 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 54 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.
62 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. 62 of the 154 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 ANNS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds HILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds DANBURY YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds DANBURY POLICE ACTIVITIES LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds RIDES FOR RIDGEFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds Founders Hall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Danbury Music Centre ↗
- Who funds LITTLE BRITCHES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds DANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds DANBURY SCHOOL & BUSINESS COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds EMBRY-RIDDLE AERONAUTICAL UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds THE WHEELS PROGRAM OF GREATER NEW MILFORD INC ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL REHABILITATION CENTER OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds BROOKFIELD CRAFT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut 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: Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Robert G and Marguerite M Derx Foundation · The Ellen Knowles Harcourt 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 Albert and Helen Meserve Mem Fund 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.
- The Wheels Program of Greater New Milford Inc — 65% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Rides for Ridgefield Inc — 39% of income from government
- Newtown Youth & Family Services Inc — 37% of income from government
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% of income from government
- Danbury Youth Services — 29% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College — 13% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Northeastern University — 7% of income from government
- Ridgefield Historical Society Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Children's Center of New Milford Inc — 7% of income from government
- Association of Religious Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Inc — 3% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- American International College — 1% of income from government
- Danbury Music Centre — 1% of income from government
- Act of Connecticut — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Barry University Inc — 1% of income from government
- Gordon College — 1% of income from government
- Assumption University — 0% of income from government
- Little Britches Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Stonehill College 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.