· Private foundation
Anne S Richardson Fund Xxxxx3004
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $290k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $390k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE | $75,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD | $75,000 |
| ST STEPHENS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $70,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN | $70,000 |
| VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION OF RIDGEFIELD | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC | $50,000 |
| TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND | $45,000 |
| WOMENS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC | $40,000 |
| THE RIDGEFIELD LIBRARY AND HISTORIC | $40,000 |
| Ridgefield Historical Society | $30,000 |
| MAMANASCO LAKE IMPROVEMENT FUND INC | $25,000 |
| TRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| MS PRESIDENT US INC | $15,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $15,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $15,000 |
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 (FY18–24, $325k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 28% 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.
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.
45 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 26 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 FY2025, 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
- RIRVNAHEALTH INC6× · 2018–2025 · $225k · revenue +197%
- WBWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC5× · 2018–2025 · $190k · revenue ×11
- TATHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC4× · 2019–2024 · $180k · revenue +84%
Funded once
- KTKEELER TAVERN MUSEUM RIDGEFIELDone grant, 2024 · $50k
- MRMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +86%
- TCThe Center For Empowerment And Education Incgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $35k · revenue +38%
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.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
To promote a sense of community by providing recreational, athletic, educational and social programs.
Ridgefield library is a public library, incorporated in 1901 as a private 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization and governed by a sixteen member board of directors. the library serves as a cultural and intellectual center and a community…
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
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…
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
To provide preschool education for children ages 2-5.
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
To maintain a clubhouse and golf grounds to cultivate a social spirit among its members to provide them with lawful recreation to do generally whatever may serve for the advancement, benefit, diversion or pleasure of the members.
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mill River Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Aging in America. 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 46 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 — 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.
33 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. 33 of the 54 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD ↗
- Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds KEELER TAVERN ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND ↗
- Who funds Founders Hall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AGING IN AMERICA ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds TRIANGLE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds MS PRESIDENT US INC ↗
- Who funds The Norwalk Hospital Association ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD GUILD OF ARTISTS ↗
- Who funds Ridgefield Garden Club Inc ↗
- Who funds MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE 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 · Synchrony Foundation · The Goldstone Family Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Philip H and Christine Lodewick Foundation Inc · Pf & Rj Morganti Foundation · Taylor-Zemo Foundation Inc · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP
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 Anne S Richardson Fund Xxxxx3004 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.
- Mill River Collaborative Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
- Gbapp Inc — 25% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Ridgefield Historical Society Inc — 7% of income from government
- Triangle Community Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Norwalk Hospital Association — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 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.