· Private foundation
Carol L Sirot Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BATEMAN HORNE CENTER | $50,000 |
| WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH AT YALE | $20,000 |
| LEAP | $15,000 |
| GOODSPEED MUSICAL INC | $5,000 |
| GOODSPEED MUSICAL INC | $5,000 |
| ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $3,200 |
| WOMEN'S HEALTH RESEARCH AT YALE | $3,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $1,800 |
| ANIMAL HAVEN | $1,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS | $1,000 |
| YUWO | $1,000 |
| SHORELINE VILLAGE | $1,000 |
| THEATRE WORKS | $1,000 |
| HARTFORD STAGE | $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 (FY17–24, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 93% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- BHBATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE6× · 2018–2024 · $138k · revenue +105%
- ALANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE8× · 2017–2024 · $73k · revenue +78%
- OMOPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION3× · 2019–2021 · $63k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- TBTEMPLE BETH TIKVAHone grant, 2022 · $30k
- GOGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $16k · revenue +29%
- NHNEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +34%
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…
Music theatre of connecticut, inc., was formed to foster and promote the growth and appreciation of theatre to the general public and to teach the appreciation of cultural and artistic values and benefits of theatre through production and…
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…
Artists repertory theatre's mission is to produce intimate, provacative theatre and provide a home for a diverse community of artists and audiences to take creative risks.
The association brings the world to our legendary stage, enriches lives, and creates community through our mission to: (1) preserve the legacy of the historic shubert theatre in new haven as an icon of the american theatre by operating and…
Worcester center for performing arts promotes and/or hosts more than 250 performances and welcomes more than 150,000 attendees each year. the hanover theatre conservatory reaches more than 700 students in theatre, technical theatre and…
The mission of the als united connecticut is to provide comprehensive support to improve quality of life for people with als and their families, while advocating for increased support and advancing innovative research for new treatments…
The oregon shakespeare festival creates world-class theater, revealing our collective humanity through illuminating interpretations of new and classic plays, and inspiring a love of our art form for current and future generations.
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 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…
The milford arts council shall support and foster artistic, cultural and educational opportunities for the benefit of the greater milford community through the creation of environments and programs for artists to work and present; as well…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Gay and Lesbian Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hearing Loss Association of America. 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 35 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 58 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 BATEMAN HORNE CENTER OF EXCELLENCE ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds OPEN MEDICINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THEATERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE VILLAGE CT ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Hollycroft Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN GAY AND LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOLVE ME CFS INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANIMAL HAVEN 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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Louis F & Mary a Tagliatela Family Foundation · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · The Guilford Foundation Inc · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
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 Carol L Sirot 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Theaterworks 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
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation 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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