· Private foundation
Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $41k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $10,000 |
| OPERATION FUEL | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF LITCHFIELD | $10,000 |
| LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY SERVICES FUND | $10,000 |
| CHORE SERVICE OF NORTHWESTERN CT | $7,000 |
| MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTICUT | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER IN LITCHFIELD | $5,000 |
| END HUNGER CONNECTICUT | $5,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT FOR WOMEN INC | $5,000 |
| COVENANT TO CARE INC | $4,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $133k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 4% 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $86k · revenue +46%
- OFOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED8× · 2017–2025 · $81k · revenue +29%
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +153%
Funded once
- TATHE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +30%
- CSCHORE SERVICE INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue +26%
- TDTHE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +26%
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 connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
To advance excellence in community-based nonprofits in connecticut.
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rebuilding Together Litchfield County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 24 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 REBUILDING TOGETHER LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CHORE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD RESCUE US INC ↗
- Who funds MENTAL HEALTH CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds END HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT 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: The Connecticut Community Foundation · American Savings Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Olga Sipolin Children's Fund · Northwest Ct Community Foundation Trust · Torrington Savings Foundation · Connecticut Health 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 Benas Lsbenas Memorial Fund 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.
- The Arc of Litchfield County Inc — 97% of income from government
- Mental Health Connecticut Inc — 82% of income from government
- New Opportunities Inc — 70% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Covenant to Care for Children Inc — 35% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project 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.