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Ansonia Foundation Advisory Ac

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$41k
Granted FY2025still arriving
12
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202025.

Education$133kEnvironment$20kReligion$15kHealth$14kArts & Culture$4kAnimals$2kCivil Rights$2kInternational$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
$2,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$553k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL$10,000
TRINITY COLLEGE$10,000
TABOR ACADEMY$5,000
ST MARK'S PARISH$5,000
MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN$2,500
VASSAR COLLEGE$2,000
YALE CANCER CENTER$2,000
SAVE THE SOUND$1,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$1,000
NEW CANAAN LIBRARY$1,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$600
INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST$500
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.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 18% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%TABOR ACADEMY: $10k → 8%VASSAR COLLEGE: $2k → 9%MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $3k → 12%TRINITY COLLEGE: $11k → 11%YALE CANCER CENTER: $2k → 12%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $10k → 17%NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1k → 7%TABOR ACADEMY: $5k → 8%VASSAR COLLEGE: $2k → 9%MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2k → 12%TRINITY COLLEGE: $11k → 11%YALE CANCER CENTER: $2k → 12%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $5k → 17%TABOR ACADEMY: $5k → 8%VASSAR COLLEGE: $1k → 9%MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2k → 12%TRINITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%YALE CANCER CENTER: $1k → 12%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $5k → 17%TABOR ACADEMY: $5k → 8%VASSAR COLLEGE: $1k → 9%MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN: $2k → 12%TRINITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%YALE CANCER CENTER: $1k → 12%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $5k → 17%TABOR ACADEMY: $5k → 8%VASSAR COLLEGE: $1k → 9%INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST: $1k → 12%ST MARK'S CHURCH: $5k → 9%TRINITY COLLEGE: $10k → 11%YALE CANCER CENTER: $1k → 12%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $1k → 17%TABOR ACADEMY: $5k → 8%ST MARK'S CHURCH: $5k → 9%TRINITY COLLEGE: $7k → 11%YALE CANCER CENTER: $1k → 12%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $1k → 17%ACLU FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%ST MARK'S PARISH: $5k → 9%SAVE THE SOUND: $1k → 12%ACLU FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%NEW CANAAN LAND TRUST: $2k → 9%NEW CANAAN LIBRARY: $1k → 9%SAVE THE SOUND: $1k → 12%NEW CANAAN LIBRARY: $1k → 9%NEW CANAAN EMS: $1k → 9%SAVE THE SOUND: $1k → 12%NEW CANAAN LIBRARY: $1k → 9%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.

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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$181k · 18 repeat orgs$8k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
5

Total granted

$181k
$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+57%

Still filing today

78%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalCivil RightsOther

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

  • TRINITY COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +34%
  • TA
    TABOR ACADEMY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +54%
  • VC
    VASSAR COLLEGE
    5× · 2020–2025 · $7k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEW CANAAN EMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +61%
  • MM
    METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
    one grant, 2020 · $600
  • AM
    American Museum of Natural History
    one grant, 2020 · $575 · revenue +25%

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
Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden Inc

We harness the power of plants for humankind and share the joy and beauty of tropical gardening with everyone. fairchild tropical botanic garden is a museum of tropical plants within a world famous, 83-acre designed landscape. it was…

Environment
2
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
3
The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia

The mission is "to understand the natural world and inspire everyone to care for it." the academy implements its mission through understanding the diversity of life; developing and applying science to protect the environment; and informing…

Science & Tech
4
Lowell Observatory

The mission of lowell observatory is to pursue the study of astronomy, especially the study of our solar system and its evolution; to conduct pure research in astronomical phenomena; and to maintain quality public education and outreach…

Science & Tech
5
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
6
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
7
Science Museum of Minnesota

The museum's mission statement is "turn on the science: inspire learning. inform policy. improve lives."

Arts & Culture
8
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
9
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
10
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc

Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…

Arts & Culture
11
National Audubon Society Inc

We work towards a future where birds thrive across the americas because audubon is a powerful, diverse, and ever-growing force for conservation. (continued on schedule o).

Environment
12
Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc

To protect the nature of massachusetts for people and for wildlife through education, land conservation, advocacy, scientific research, and habitat stewardship/restoration.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. 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

19 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 19 of the 26 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)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

TRINITY COLLEGE — $59,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGETABOR ACADEMY — $35,000 · EducationTABOR ACADEMYHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL — $27,000 · EducationHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOLTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC — $5,000 · EducationST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $10,000 · OtherST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHYALE CANCER CENTER — $8,000 · OtherYALE CANCER CENTERVASSAR COLLEGE — $7,000 · OtherVASSAR COLLEGEST MARK'S PARISH — $5,000 · OtherST MARK'S PARISHNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $4,000 · OtherNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVAT…PLANNED PARENTHOOD — $3,000 · OtherPLANNED PARENTHOODPLANNED PARENTHOOD SNE — $2,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,500 · Other+3 more — $2,100 · OtherMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $7,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND — $4,000 · EnvironmentINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC — $1,500 · EnvironmentNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc — $1,500 · EnvironmentMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $2,400 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museum of Natural History — $575 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 · Civil RightsWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC — $1,500 · AnimalsWildlife Conservation Society — $500 · AnimalsAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 · InternationalNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $500 · Philanthropy
Education$126,000Other$42,600Environment$14,000Arts & Culture$2,975Civil Rights$2,000Animals$2,000International$1,000Philanthropy$500

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 budgetTRINITY COLLEGE — $59,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTABOR ACADEMY — $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL — $27,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC — $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC — $5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $4,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND — $4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $2,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc — $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC — $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY — $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN EMS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $500 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.

The Morris Family FoundationTN17.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Morris Family Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Debard Johnson Foundation Inc · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · The Schwedel Foundation · Half Moon Foundation · Corbet Family Foundation · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · O'Connor Family Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · 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 Ansonia Foundation Advisory Ac 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.

2025
202122232425
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    6get no government money at all
    6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
    typical government reliance, FY2025

    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.

    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 26 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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