· Private foundation
Blum Shapiro Foundation Inc
Its FY2020 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 FY2019–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $8,000 |
| FOODSHARE | $8,000 |
| MSCPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC | $2,400 |
| MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT | $2,400 |
| MADONNA PLACE | $2,400 |
| CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC | $2,400 |
| INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES INC | $2,400 |
| CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC | $2,400 |
| GATEWAYS TO CHANGE INC | $2,400 |
| CAMBRIDGE YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION | $2,400 |
| HANDS ON HARTFORD | $2,400 |
| REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC | $2,400 |
| UNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICES INC | $2,400 |
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 (FY19–20, $40k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 53% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2020, 0 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +104%
- QUQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +25%
- BUBRYANT UNIVERSITY2× · 2019–2020 · $2k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- MDMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $3k
- KFKLINGBERG FAMILY CENTERSone grant, 2019 · $3k
- RTREAD TO GROW INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -8%
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 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…
Children's services
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Through support, challenge and opportunity, triangle empowers people with disabilities and their families to enjoy rich, fulfilling lives. we are committed to helping the world recognize that we are all people with ability.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
United way of connecticut is proud to be a trusted and vital resource for help and information about what the people of connecticut need. we respond to requests for food, housing, health care, child care, child development resources,…
Fca is a community-based behavioral health center that offers innovation, responsive and traditional mental health care and services for children, adolescents, adults and their families.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
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…
Lifestream, inc. (the organization") provides community-based services that support individuals in attaining greater independence, promising opportunities, and lives that are meaningful and fulfilling on their own terms.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bentley University. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
69 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. 69 of the 100 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 GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FATHER BILL'S & MAINSPRING INC ↗
- Who funds REACH BEYOND DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAYS TO CHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds END HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds PATHWAYS FOR CHILDRENINC ↗
- Who funds MAKING OPPORTUNITY COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMBRIDGE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY SERVICES OF THE MERRIMACK VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds ENGLISH FOR NEW BOSTONIANS INC ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds CASA MYRNA VAZQUEZ INC ↗
- Who funds Madonna Place Inc ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOMMY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOGARTY CENTER ↗
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: Peoples United Community Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Aetna 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 Blum Shapiro 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.
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Pathways for Childreninc — 86% of income from government
- Jewish Association for Community Living Inc — 84% of income from government
- Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
- The Kennedy Collective Inc — 79% of income from government
- Lumibility Inc — 76% of income from government
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- United Services Inc — 74% of income from government
- Friendship Home Inc — 66% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 55% of income from government
- Artreach Inc — 54% of income from government
- Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc — 53% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- New Britain Roots Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc — 38% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
- South Park Inn Inc — 29% of income from government
- United Community and Family Servicesinc — 29% of income from government
- Making Opportunity Count Inc — 28% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc — 24% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Housing Families Inc — 12% of income from government
- English for New Bostonians Inc — 11% of income from government
- Family Services of the Merrimack Valley Inc — 11% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cambridge Young Women's Christian Association — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Justice Dance Performance Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Rosie's Place 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.
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