· Private foundation
Claudia Hearn & Edward Stern 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUDSON VALLEY LGBTQ & CC | $5,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 11 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 FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TCTHE CARTER CENTER INC6× · 2018–2024 · $57k · revenue +25%
- HIHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC5× · 2018–2023 · $22k · revenue +22%
WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE3× · 2021–2024 · $16k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- NRNEW REACH INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -35%
- DDDAVE'S DREAM FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $5k
- YCYNHH COVID-19 SUPPORT FUNDone grant, 2020 · $5k
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The primary exempt purpose of ct legal rights project, inc. is to provide legal representation and advocacy for low income adults with psychiatric disabilities.
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
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…
Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide a compassionate community where loving care enables aged and indigent individuals from meriden and connecticut to live with dignity in a secure, homelike environment.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
To promote, for the benefit of the general public, the conservation of land and water natural resources principally in, but not limited to, the town of kent, connecticut.
The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the most unlike its peers is Jj's Toys for Friends Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 23 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 THE CARTER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR MUSICAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW REACH INC ↗
- Who funds BALL & SOCKET ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SMILE TRAIN INC ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Stephen J Wampler Foundation Camp WAMP ↗
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds JJ'S TOYS FOR FRIENDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD LAND TRUST 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: Jms Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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 Claudia Hearn & Edward Stern 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.
- Fellowship Place Inc — 66% of income from government
- New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
- Ball & Socket Arts Inc — 26% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Branford Early Learning Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% 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.