· Private foundation
Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SE CT COMMUNITY CENTER OF THE BLIND | $13,000 |
| FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD STUDIOS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $10,000 |
| CT RADIO INFORMATION SYSTEM | $9,500 |
| COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK | $9,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $7,000 |
| HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER INC | $6,300 |
| HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY | $6,000 |
| LIGHTHOUSE GUILD | $5,000 |
| CT INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND - OAK HIL | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND | $4,200 |
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.
17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 1 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- AFARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT8× · 2017–2025 · $72k · revenue +90%
- FGFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +79%
- CACOMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP7× · 2018–2025 · $64k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- YRYALE REPERTORY THEATREone grant, 2019 · $5k
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $5k
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 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.
Fine Arts Radio, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to supporting classical and classic music in Connecticut and New York
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
To promote and enhance the city of hartford by providing uniformed guides who provide information and assistance to the public in the downtown and other areas of hartford.
To provide quality services to meet selected needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the greater new haven region.
Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…
All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…
We exist to be a catalyst for the arts and promote an equitable arts ecosystem in Greater Hartford.
West Windsor Arts cultivates the artist within us all, while inspiring a creative community that is engaged, inclusive and equitable.
Encourage art appreciation
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Arts for Learning Connecticut and the most unlike its peers is National Federation of the Blind of Connecticut. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 20 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 ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNICATION ADVOCACY NETWORK CORP ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FEDERATION OF THE BLIND OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RADIO INFORMATION SYSTEM 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: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 Blackford M M Cotr Ua Art I B 4 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.
- Communication Advocacy Network Corp — 45% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc — 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.
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