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Ansonia Foundation Advisory Ac at a glance

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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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

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
NEW CANAAN LIBRARY$1,000
ACLU FOUNDATION$1,000
SAVE THE SOUND$1,000
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART$600
INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST$500
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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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 18% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its 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 PARISH: $5k → 9%TRINITY COLLEGE: $7k → 11%YALE CANCER CENTER: $1k → 12%HATHAWAY BROWN SCHOOL: $1k → 17%ACLU FOUNDATION: $1k → 17%ST MARK'S CHURCH: $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 LIBRARY: $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
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.
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has 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

+39%
+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
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

  • TRINITY COLLEGE
    6× · 2020–2025 · $59k · revenue +34%
  • TA
    TABOR ACADEMY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $35k · revenue +54%
  • MB
    MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $7k · revenue +63%

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%
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc; 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 grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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 · EnvironmentNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc: $1,500 · EnvironmentINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST 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 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 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 budgetMCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC: $7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% 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 budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.1% 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
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.

The Morris Family Fou…New Canaan Community …The Debard Johnson Fo…Hobbs Family Charitab…The a James Bach and …The Schwedel Foundati…Half Moon FoundationCorbet Family Foundat…Jim and Dede Bartlett…O'Connor Family Found…The Seelert Foundatio…The John and Ethel Ka…
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

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 Ansonia Foundation Advisory Ac funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ansonia Foundation Advisory Ac. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's 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, 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.

    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 26 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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