· Private foundation
Brzezicki Family Foundation
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Times Fool Company Inc | $4,000 |
| Grants Way Foundation | $4,000 |
| CT Cat Connection | $4,000 |
| Town of Wethersfield | $2,000 |
| Church of Christ Congregational | $1,500 |
| Church of Christ Congregational | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| CT Burns Care Foundation | $1,000 |
| National Coast Guard Museum | $1,000 |
| The Diaper Bank of CT | $1,000 |
| Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod | $1,000 |
| New England Public Media | $1,000 |
| CT Rivers Council BSA | $1,000 |
| 4-H Education Center at Auer Farm | $1,000 |
| Hartfords Camp Courant | $1,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $16k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 25% 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 +22% since the first grant, against -12% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- HCHartford County 4-H Camp Inc4× · 2022–2025 · $14k · revenue +23%
- NCNATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +239%
AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $7k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- CRCT River Council BSAone grant, 2022 · $2k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $2k
- CRCT Rivers Counsil BSAone grant, 2021 · $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 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 public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
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…
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…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
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 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.
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 Times Fool Company. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 20. 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 — 4% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 54 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 Hartford County 4-H Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds TIMES FOOL COMPANY ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds LOWER CAPE OUTREACH COUNCILINC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE ABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD CHILDREN'S PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURANT INC ↗
- Who funds CAPE COD TIMES NEIGHBORS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Cat Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD COUNTY 4-H FAIR ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds 4-H EDUCATION CENTER AT AUERFARM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA 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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Cape and Islands United Way Inc · Cape Cod Healthcare Inc & Affiliates · Cape & Coast Bank Foundation · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · Bilezikian Family Foundation Inc · Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank 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 Brzezicki Family Foundation 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.
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- Cape Cod Children's Place Inc — 47% of income from government
- Hartford County 4-H Fair Assoc Inc — 32% of income from government
- Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown Inc — 27% of income from government
- 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm Inc — 25% of income from government
- Lower Cape Outreach Councilinc — 6% of income from government
- National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- New England Public Media 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.