· Private foundation
Bassler Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k10 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $34,600 |
| LIBERATION PROGRAMS INC | $11,000 |
| CROHNS & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA | $10,000 |
| THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN | $3,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC | $3,000 |
| NEXTGEN FACE | $3,000 |
| PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $1,000 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| DARIEN LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| THE CIRI FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| DARIEN EMS POST 53 | $500 |
| AT HOME IN DARIEN | $300 |
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, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
14 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- LPLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC6× · 2018–2024 · $82k · revenue +131%
- CCCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC6× · 2018–2024 · $68k · revenue +15%
- NFNEXTGEN FACE INC5× · 2018–2024 · $15k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- KCKHARKIV CINCINNATI SISTER CITY - CINCINNATI SISTER CITY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $10k
- EFENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +1%
- NUNATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue +86%
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 mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
The darien foundation's mission is to provide grant funding for technology and capital projects that create opportunity for darien's youth, support town safety and security services, enhance the overall quality of life in darien, and…
The council on foreign relations (cfr) is an independent, nonpartisan membership organization, think tank, and publisher dedicated to being a resource for its members, government officials, business executives, journalists, educators and…
The purpose and activities of dana-farber, inc. are to promote and support the exempt missions of dana-farber cancer institute and to provide investment management services.
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…
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The cris radio mission is to enrich the lives of adults and children who are blind or print-challenged by providing human-narrated recordings of printed materials that serve to increase inclusion and accessibility by enhancing knowledge,…
The mission of the organization is to foster the development of creative individuals as writers and artists and to promote public appreciation of excellence in the literary and graphic arts by publishing a magazine containing fiction,…
To cure cf and provide all people with cf the opportunity to lead long, fulfilling lives by funding research and drug development, partnering with the cf community, and advancing high-quality, specialized care.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Ciri Foundation. 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 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 LIBERATION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEXTGEN FACE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds AVON THEATRE FILM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds ENDOMETRIOSIS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds The CIRI Foundation ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT GUN VIOLENCE ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALKSTAMFORD GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD CENTER OF NY INC ↗
- Who funds Darien Book Aid Plan Inc ↗
- Who funds AT HOME IN DARIENINC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds THE SCHOLARSHIP FUND OF CONCORD AND CARLISLE ↗
- Who funds DARIEN POLICE ASSOCIATION 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 · The Goodnow Fund · 522 Foundation Inc · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · The Orenstein Family Foundation · Alexandra Foundation · The Jack and Tricia Ryan Family Foundation · The Darrell Harvey Family Foundation Inc · The Rogers Family Foundation · Grune Family Foundation Inc · The Sosnow 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 Bassler 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.
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Community Fund of Darien — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% 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.