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Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family Foundation Inc

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.

$6.4M
Granted FY2025still arriving
30
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$1.8M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0180% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2021–2025.

Arts & Culture$9.0MEducation$6.8MPhilanthropy$1.9MHuman Services$993kYouth Development$405kCivil Rights$250kHealth$205kRecreation & Sports$100kCommunity Improvement$3kOther$4.9M
02FY2025 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k6 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $204k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $503k
  • $250k+8 grants · $5.7M
$33,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$6.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BABSON COLLEGE$1,840,855
FROM THE HEART PRODUCTIONS$1,789,525
CCMC FOUNDATION$500,000
KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL$500,000
GREEN & BLUE FOUNDATION$301,000
CT SCIENCE CENTER$255,000
DIGNITY GROWS$250,000
HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS$250,000
CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER$207,515
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD$140,500
WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART$55,000
HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY$50,000
CCSU FOUNDATION - ANNUAL TECH SCHOLARSHIPS$50,000
THE MANDELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$36,000
ST FRANCIS FOUNDATION$33,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $993k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 5% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your 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: $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

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

IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MD
GA
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$22M · 30 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
33

Total granted

$22M
$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+11%

Still filing today

80%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $588k went to new ones.

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

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

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

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

  • From The Heart Productions
    5× · 2021–2025 · $6.4M · revenue +114%
  • BABSON COLLEGE
    5× · 2021–2025 · $4.9M · revenue +18%
  • HY
    HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $1.2M · revenue +62% · 27% of their budget

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NAGEN PROJECT INC
    one grant, 2024 · $250k · revenue 0%
  • US
    USC SHOAH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
  • HH
    HEBREW HEALTH CARE INC
    one grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue -96%

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

04Your field

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.

1
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
2
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
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 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
5
Hillel Foundation of Cambridge Inc
Religion
6
Hebrew Health Care Foundation Inc

Managing endowment funds for hebrew health care and affiliates.

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7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

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

Education
8
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.

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9
Harvard Club of Ny Historical Foundation
Environment
10
The Hartford Family Foundation
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11
Hebrew Home & Hospital

The mission of hebrew home and hospital aligns with the mission of its parent organization, hebrew health care, to provide quality services to senior adults. (see schedule o)as part of an integrated system to assist seniors in the…

Health
12
Harvard Club of Boston Foundation
Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and 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.

Your grantees are a median of 40 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%16%5–10yr20%9%10–20yr18%21%20–35yr12%21%35–55yr14%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%6%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr18%45%20–35yr12%10%35–55yr14%40%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/45
the rest of the field
13%
3,072/23,283

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 73 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
42/44
Grantees still filing
29/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

From The Heart Productions — $6,391,852 · Arts & CultureFrom The Heart ProductionsCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER — $1,436,015 · Arts & CultureCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/…CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC — $885,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC+5 more — $237,900 · Arts & CultureBABSON COLLEGE — $4,853,420 · EducationBABSON COLLEGEHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC — $1,201,074 · EducationHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INCKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC — $500,000 · EducationKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC+6 more — $276,000 · EducationCCMC FOUNDATION — $2,000,000 · OtherCCMC FOUNDATIONST FRANCIS FOUNDATION — $1,073,250 · 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+38 more — $958,947 · Other+38 moreJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD — $1,037,018 · PhilanthropyGREEN AND BLUE FOUNDATION — $575,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $150,000 · Philanthropy+5 more — $99,500 · PhilanthropyGREEN AND BLUE FOUNDATION INC — $601,000 · Human ServicesDIGNITY GROWS INC — $340,000 · Human ServicesShe Angels Foundation — $51,500 · Human ServicesTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD — $375,000 · Youth DevelopmentMICHAEL E SIMMONS FOUNDATION INC FRIENDS OF MICHAEL — $30,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC — $250,000 · Civil Rights
Arts & Culture$8,950,767Education$6,830,494Other$5,171,716Philanthropy$1,861,518Human Services$992,500Youth Development$405,000Civil Rights$250,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFrom The Heart Productions — $6,391,852 over 5y, 23% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE — $4,853,420 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHARTER OAK TEMPLE RESTORATION ASSOC D/B/A CHARTER OAK CULTURAL CENTER — $1,436,015 over 5y, 42% of budgetHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC — $1,201,074 over 5y, 27% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD — $1,037,018 over 5y, 4.6% of budgetTHE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $889,519 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC — $885,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetGREEN AND BLUE FOUNDATION INC — $601,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetGREEN AND BLUE FOUNDATION — $575,000 over 3y, 89% of budgetKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC — $500,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD — $375,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetDIGNITY GROWS INC — $340,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE NAGEN PROJECT INC — $250,000 over 1y, 8.2% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART — $155,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY — $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $150,000 over 3y, 6.7% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF SOUTH PALM BEACH COUNTY INC — $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHEBREW HEALTH CARE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetRIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC — $100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetShe Angels Foundation — $51,500 over 2y, 29% of budgetARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC — $50,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL — $35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC — $33,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMICHAEL E SIMMONS FOUNDATION INC FRIENDS OF MICHAEL — $30,000 over 2y, 7.7% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetVOICES OF HOPE INC — $17,900 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE KOBY MANDELL FOUNDATION INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJFACT FUND INC — $10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetBOSTON ARTS ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVOICES OF HOPE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBOCA RIO FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetiQuilt Partnership Inc — $3,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetDAVID M HERSKOVITS FOUNDATION — $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMY SISTERS' PLACE INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

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

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 Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%your 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

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Andrew J & Joyce D Mandell Family Foundation Inc?

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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 73 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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