· Private foundation
Brian and Marilyn Lindsay 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $69k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW HORIZONS INC | $16,975 |
| TALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCI CTR & ACAD | $16,500 |
| OAK HILL | $16,000 |
| THE STEPHEN SILLLER TUNNEL TO | $10,000 |
| FOODSHARECT FOOD BANK | $10,000 |
| GIFTS OF LOVE | $5,000 |
| HOUSE OF HEROES CONNECTICUT | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY - CT | $5,000 |
| SHRINERS HOSPITAL FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| WEST AVON CEMETERY ASSOC | $3,000 |
| THE FREINDS OFAVON LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| AVON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $97k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 55% of Brian and Marilyn Lindsay Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 88% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 43%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNEW HORIZONS INC6× · 2019–2024 · $75k · revenue +8%
- WCWHEELER CLINIC INC4× · 2019–2022 · $39k · revenue +37%
- BHBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC5× · 2019–2023 · $24k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- LVLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +119%
- FGFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $2k · revenue +44%
- NFNBHS FOOTBALL ABC INCone grant, 2023 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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.
VNA of South Central Connecticut, Inc. is dedicated to enhancing the health, well being and quality of life at home and in the community is serves.
To promote literacy by performing tutoring services for adults who are not able to read, write and communicate in english.
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 veterans legal center's mission is to empower, support, and improve the lives of connecticut veterans by providing free legal assistance to help them overcome legal barriers to housing, healthcare, income, and recovery.
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.
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
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…
Habitat for humanity of greater centre county works in partnership with god and our communities to build simple, decent, affordable houses for qualified families in need of adequate shelter.
We work to ensure that individuals with disabilities can live independently as equal members of society.
None
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
How this is measured
8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 21 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds House of Heroes Connecticut Chapter Inc ↗
- Who funds AVON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Brian and Marilyn Lindsay Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Brian and Marilyn Lindsay Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Wheeler Clinic Inc: 47% of income from government
- New Horizons Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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