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Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$4.7M
Granted FY2026still arriving
29
Grants FY2026still arriving
7
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$8.1MCommunity Improvement$4.9MHealth$2.4MEducation$2.1MReligion$1.4MPhilanthropy$1.3MYouth Development$1.0MHuman Services$969kOther$0
02FY2026 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2026

  • Under $10k7 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $205k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $370k
  • $250k+9 grants · $4.1M
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS$1,507,825
KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL$500,000
AMERICANS FOR OXFORD$400,000
GREEN & BLUE FOUNDATION$350,000
HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS$300,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD$275,000
CT SCIENCE CENTER$255,000
CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER$251,000
CCMC FOUNDATION$250,000
BABSON COLLEGE$160,000
BABSON VENTURING OUT PROGRAM$160,000
HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY$50,000
ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$30,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARTFORD$30,000
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY24–26, $1.3M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%SHE ANGELS FOUNDATION: $50k → 14%SHE ANGELS FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%DIGNITY GROWS: $250k → 11%DIGNITY GROWS: $90k → 11%GREEN & BLUE FOUNDATION: $350k → 11%GREEN & BLUE FOUNDATION: $301k → 11%GREEN AND BLUE FOUNDATION: $300k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
GA
FL
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$26M · 32 repeat orgs$1.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2026, 13 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
37

Total granted

$26M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+12%

Still filing today

78%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $604k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25’26
EducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyHealthHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • From The Heart Productions
    6× · 2021–2026 · $7.9M · revenue +114%
  • BABSON COLLEGE
    6× · 2021–2026 · $5.0M · revenue +18%
  • HY
    HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC
    6× · 2021–2026 · $1.5M · revenue +62% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • US
    USC SHOAH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • TN
    THE NAGEN PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • HH
    HEBREW HEALTH CARE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -94%
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.

1
Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Inc

The jewish foundation of greater new haven's mission is to solicit and properly manage current and new charitable endowments and planned gifts for organizations in greater new haven so that there will be permanent and ongoing funding for…

Religion
2
The Jewish High School of Connecticut

The jewish high school of connecticut is dedicated to educate jewish youth for whom jewish values and traditions shape and guide their lives and for whom learning and responsible actions are foundational for achievement.

—
3
Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Inc

The Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford unlocks the transformative power of individuals and collective philanthropy to address problems, strengthen community organizations,and provide permanent support for the Jewish Community…

Philanthropy
4
University of Hartford

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.

Education
5
Hebrew Health Care Foundation Inc

Managing endowment funds for hebrew health care and affiliates.

—
6
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
7
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
8
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
9
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
10
University of Judaism Foundation
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11
The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc

The jewish federation of greater new haven, inc. is the central planning, fund-raising and coordinating body of the jewish community in new haven county,connecticut. the jewish federation funds a variety of constituent and beneficiary…

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12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving; the most unlike its peers is Green and Blue Foundation. 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

49 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 49 of the 81 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/49
Grantees still filing
33/49
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

From The Heart Productions: $7,899,677 · Arts & CultureFrom The Heart ProductionsCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER: $1,687,015 · Arts & CultureCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A…CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $1,140,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC+5 more: $247,900 · Arts & CultureBABSON COLLEGE: $5,013,420 · EducationBABSON COLLEGEHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC: $1,501,074 · EducationHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INCKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $1,000,000 · EducationKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INCAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC: $400,000 · Education+9 more: $339,867 · EducationCCMC FOUNDATION: $2,250,000 · OtherCCMC FOUNDATIONST FRANCIS FOUNDATION: $1,103,250 · OtherST FRANCIS FOUNDATIONTHE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $889,519 · OtherTHE JOYCE D & ANDREW J…USC SHOAH FOUNDATION: $250,000 · Other+41 more: $1,205,447 · Other+41 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD: $1,312,018 · PhilanthropyGREEN AND BLUE FOUNDATION: $575,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $175,000 · Philanthropy+6 more: $134,000 · PhilanthropyGREEN AND BLUE FOUNDATION INC: $951,000 · Human ServicesDIGNITY GROWS INC: $340,000 · Human ServicesShe Angels Foundation: $51,500 · Human ServicesTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $405,000 · Youth DevelopmentMICHAEL E SIMMONS FOUNDATION INC FRIENDS OF MICHAEL: $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC: $250,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$10,974,592Education$8,254,361Other$5,698,216Philanthropy$2,196,018Human Services$1,342,500Youth Development$435,000Civil Rights$250,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFrom The Heart Productions: $7,899,677 over 6y, 23% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $5,013,420 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER: $1,687,015 over 6y, 42% of budgetHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC: $1,501,074 over 6y, 27% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD: $1,312,018 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $1,140,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $1,000,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetGREEN AND BLUE FOUNDATION INC: $951,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $889,519 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetGREEN AND BLUE FOUNDATION: $575,000 over 3y, 89% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $405,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetDIGNITY GROWS INC: $340,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC: $250,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $200,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC: $175,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART: $155,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetHEBREW HEALTH CARE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetShe Angels Foundation: $51,500 over 2y, 29% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetTHE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC: $36,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL: $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMICHAEL E SIMMONS FOUNDATION INC FRIENDS OF MICHAEL: $30,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetVOICES OF HOPE INC: $27,900 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION ASSOCIATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetJFACT FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $5,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES OF HOPE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetiQuilt Partnership Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetMY SISTERS' PLACE INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID M HERSKOVITS FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budget
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.

Sandra & Arnold Chase…Cheryl Chase & Stuart…Burton & Phyllis Hoff…Aetna Foundation IncThe Zachs Family Foun…The William and Alice…Hartford Foundation f…Eric & Jessica Zachs …Edgemer Foundation IncThe Robert & Margaret…Travelers FoundationJ Walton Bissell Foun…
Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation IncCT34.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Eric & Jessica Zachs Family Foundation · Edgemer Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Travelers Foundation · J Walton Bissell 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 Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • IQuilt Partnership Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Jewish Federation Association of Connecticut Inc: 69% of income from government
  • My Sisters' Place Inc: 26% of income from government
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford: 20% of income from government
  • Connecticut Science Center Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Voices of Hope Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
  • Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Babson College: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Riverfront Recapture Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Kingswood Oxford School Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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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Find your warmest path to Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 81 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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