· Private foundation
Carlson 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $51k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MITCHELL COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY | $11,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| ESSEX LAND TRUST | $3,000 |
| THE CONN FDN FOR DENTAL OUTREACH | $3,000 |
| IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE | $754 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $754 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
Vanderbilt University8× · 2018–2025 · $49k · revenue +65%- CACHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC5× · 2017–2021 · $33k · revenue +50%
- CACONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +107%
Funded once
- EHESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2024 · $5k · revenue -17%
- MHMIDDLESEX HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $5k
- OPOUTSIDE PERSPECTIVES INCone grant, 2024 · $4k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
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 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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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…
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
To maintain middlesex county's historical integrity and to educate and provide programs to the public to increase their understanding of the area's past.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Middlesex Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Outside Perspectives 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 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 MITCHELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds OUTSIDE PERSPECTIVES INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN PLACEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION 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: Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc · Parkinson Family Foundation Inc · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · Kitchings Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · S & H Foundation Inc · The Foxboro Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · Peach Pit Foundation · The Bauman Family 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 Carlson 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.
- Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 55% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc — 47% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- New Horizons Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mitchell College — 2% of income from government
- The Community Music School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 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.