· Private foundation
Bauer Erwin C Char Tuw
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE MADISON FOUNDATION INC | $25,000 |
| TOWN OF MADISON | $8,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT | $5,000 |
| VIBE SHOW CHOIR SUPPORTERS | $5,000 |
| MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC | $4,000 |
| WOMEN AND FAMILY LIFE CENTER OF GUILFORD | $2,000 |
| DEACON JOHNGRAVE FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| E C SCRANTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $2,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
- TOTOWN OF MADISON6× · 2020–2025 · $39k
- AFARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT5× · 2021–2025 · $38k · revenue +94%
- MHMADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC5× · 2021–2025 · $37k · revenue -43%
Funded once
- DHDANIEL HAND HIGH SCHOOL ECO CLUBone grant, 2023 · $2k
- FCFIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF MADISONone grant, 2020 · $1k
- SSSHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS PANTRIESone grant, 2024 · $1k
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 manchester historical society educates the public about the history of manchester, connecticut; collects, preserves, interprets, and exhibits information and artifacts about the town and its diverse population, and advocates for the…
To preserve, collect, promote and exhibit the history of Madison County and it's 15 towns and one 15 towns and one city
Historical preservation of places buildings parks and other middletown artifacts for the enjoyment of middletown citizens and other visitors to the town
Preserve New London WI Heritage and History
To maintain middlesex county's historical integrity and to educate and provide programs to the public to increase their understanding of the area's past.
Promote modern, contemporary art through exhibitions, educational programs, and collecting.
To administer investments and receive support for the exclusive benefit of the madison museum of contemporary art, inc.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Madison Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is Deacon John Grave Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 16 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 THE MADISON FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds MADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds EC SCRANTON MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds DEACON JOHN GRAVE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON'S NITE IN HAND ↗
- Who funds VIBE SHOW CHOIR SUPPORTERS IN ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE L EVARTS MEMORIAL ARCHIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
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: Lucy Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Bauer Erwin C Char Tuw 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.
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 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.