· Private foundation
Colon Family Education Foundation Inc
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 |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| FAIRFIELD PREPATORY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| HOOPS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT POLICE HISPANIC SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS | $1,400 |
| MILFORD KIWANIS FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| BUKAROOS OF 302 | $500 |
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 (FY19–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 2 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, 67% 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
- BCBRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC5× · 2018–2025 · $17k · revenue +315%
- HAHOOPS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $11k · revenue +340%
- SCST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC2× · 2019–2020 · $6k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- BSBTX SEA FREIGHT (PUERTO RICO RELIEF)one grant, 2018 · $15k
- SFSHIPMAN'S FIRE EQUIPMENT COMPANY INCone grant, 2020 · $9k
- HHHISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL INCone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +19%
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.
Community health center (chc) is building a world class primary care organization, improving health outcomes and building healthier communities through clinical excellence, research and innovation, and training the next generation. chc is…
Connecticut children's medical center is dedicated to improving the physical and emotional health of children through family-centered care, research, education and advocacy. we embrace discovery, teamwork, integrity and excellence in all…
CUC's primary mission is to offer amateur sports competition for members in the state of Connecticut. The organization achieves this by organizing and operating ultimate frisbee leagues and programs that benefit the community including…
Community guidance clinic for central connecticut, an established and trusted community resource, provides comprehensive evidence-based behavioral health services that promote wellness and resilience. our collaborative, family-focused,…
Through advocacy, education, and networking, the ct association of school based health centers positions sbhcs as leaders in the broader healthcare system for ct's children and adolescents.
To enrich lives through learning by enhancing the educational, social, and recreational opportunities for low and moderate income youth. to provide athletic, recreational, educational, and social activities to inner-city youth as a means…
The corporation is organized and shall be operated exclusively for the benefit of, to perform the functions of, to carry out the purposes of, and to uphold, promote, and further the welfare and activities of community health center,…
The non-profit Connecticut Health Investigative Team, C-HIT, is dedicated to producing original, responsible, in-depth journalism on issues of health and safety in Connecticut and the surrounding region.
The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.
The connecticut catholic public affairs conference, inc. is established by the bishops of the roman catholic dioceses, both of the latin rite and the ukrainian rite, which have their see cities in connecticut, to provide positions…
Non-profit organization which was founded by the state of ct general assembly as a model for employer - sponsored childcare programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rf Youth Boxing Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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 63 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 HEDGEYE CARES INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds HOOPS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC HEALTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Future Stars Children's Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds RF Youth Boxing Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY ↗
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: Peoples United Community Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Colon Family Education Foundation Inc 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Rf Youth Boxing Inc — 38% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley — 19% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mcgivney Community Center Inc — 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.
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