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Corbet 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.

$458k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$201k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0190% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.

Religion$474kHealth$257kScience & Tech$247kEducation$74kHuman Services$51kArts & Culture$29kPhilanthropy$13kEnvironment$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k19 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $48k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $379k
$1,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST MARK'S CHURCH$200,500
WAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK - KMFRUIN NURSING SCHOOL$178,177
ST ALOYSIUS CHURCH$37,500
THE NEW CANAAN LAND TRUST$10,000
WWWDONORSCHOOSEORG$9,793
YALE CAMPAIGN SCHOOL$5,033
WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY$5,000
NEW CANAAN ROTARY FNDN$3,320
THE MARITIME AQUARIUM$2,500
NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$1,288
MALTA HOUSE INC$1,036
Individual grant recipient$1,000
Individual grant recipient$750
Individual grant recipient$518
BREAKTHROUGHT1D JDRF JDRFORG NY$260
02The need
03

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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 95% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE: $50k → 7%THE ALS ASSOCIATION - MASSACHUSSETTS CHAPTER: $250 → 11%BETH ISRAEL MED CNTR - JIM O'BRIEN PHILANTHROPY: $250 → 16%NEPM FOUNDATION: $311 → 7%GIVERGY CHARITY EVENT TOURETTE ASSOCIATION: $1k → 13%WWWDONORSCHOOSEORG: $10k → 17%ELSBERRY HS: $6k → 10%KIDS EMPOWERED: $518 → 9%THE JACKSON LABORATORY: $77k → 11%NAROPA UNIVERSITY 303-5463553 CO: $250 → 12%SPRINGBOARD ENTERPRISE: $500 → 6%WWWDONORSCHOOSEORG: $7k → 17%ELSBERRY HS: $1k → 10%YALE UNIVERSITY: $1k → 12%WWWDONORSCHOOSEORG: $5k → 17%MALTA HOUSE INC: $1k → 9%CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE - WALK AGAINST HUNGER: $2k → 12%ST MARK'S CHURCH: $201k → 9%CT FOODSHARE: $2k → 12%WAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK - KMFRUIN NURSING SCHOOL: $178k → 9%CT FOODSHARE: $2k → 12%ST MARK'S CHURCH: $175k → 9%WAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK - KMFRUIN NURSING SCHOOL: $75k → 9%THE FRESH AIR FUND: $1k → 17%ST MARK'S CHURCH: $60k → 9%ST ALOYSIUS CHURCH: $38k → 9%WAVENY CARE CENTER: $36k → 9%TOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN: $25k → 9%WAVENY CARE CENTER: $15k → 9%THE NEW CANAAN LAND TRUST: $10k → 9%NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $8k → 9%YALE CAMPAIGN SCHOOL: $5k → 9%WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY: $5k → 9%NEW CANAAN ROTARY FNDN: $3k → 9%NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $1k → 9%NEW CANAAN LIBRARY - CHAIR FUNDRAISER: $1k → 9%NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $1k → 9%WAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK: $1k → 9%REV ELIZABETH GARNSEY: $750 → 9%NEW CANAAN VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE SERVICES: $500 → 9%NEW CANAAN ROTARY FNDN: $500 → 9%GETABOUT INC: $288 → 9%GOFUNDME JANET LEUNG FONSS - HUSBAND'S DEATH: $275 → 9%ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $259 → 9%UNITED METHODIST CHURCH OF NEW C UMCOFNEWCANAA CT: $258 → 9%THE MARITIME AQUARIUM: $3k → 9%AMERICARES: $1k → 9%NUVANCE - NORWALK HOSPITAL: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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NY
MA
CT
CO
MO
VA
DC

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.0M · 12 repeat orgs$154k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
33

Total granted

$1.0M
$93k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+12%

Still filing today

50%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureRecreation & SportsInternationalEmploymentEducationOther

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

  • TJ
    THE JACKSON LABORATORY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $247k · revenue +18%
  • NC
    NEW CANAAN EMS INC
    2× · 2021–2023 · $750 · revenue +61%
  • BH
    Blossom Hill Foundation Inc
    2× · 2023–2025 · $353 · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE
    one grant, 2024 · $50k · revenue +12%
  • TP
    TOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +54%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Northeast Medical Group Inc

To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.

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4
Bridgeport Hospital

To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.

Health
5
Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

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6
Norwalk Hospital Foundation

The mission of norwalk hospital foundation is to raise funds, reinvest and administer these funds and make distributions to norwalk hospital and other not-for-profit norwalk hospital affiliates.

Health
7
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc

To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.

Health
8
New York Blood Center Inc

As one of the most preeminent and comprehensive blood centers in theworld, nybc operates under a four-part mission. for more information,see sch. o and part iii, 4a-c.

Health
9
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
10
Nuvance Health Medical Practice Ct Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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11
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
12
National Public Radio Inc

National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Waveny Lifecare Network 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 43 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr13%7%5–10yr21%10%10–20yr21%20%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr14%30%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr13%0%5–10yr21%1%10–20yr21%2%20–35yr13%14%35–55yr14%83%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/33
the rest of the field
11%
2,796/26,603

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.

04the grantee network

28 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. 28 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
13/28
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCH — $435,500 · OtherST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHWAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK - KMFRUIN NURSING SCHOOL — $253,177 · OtherWAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK - KMFRUIN NURSING SCHOOLST ALOYSIUS CHURCH CORP — $37,500 · Other+43 more — $96,418 · Other+43 moreTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $247,000 · HealthTHE JACKSON LABORATORYWAVENY CARE CENTER INC — $51,103 · HealthWAVENY CARE CENTER INC+5 more — $2,026 · HealthTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $50,000 · EducationNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 · Philanthropy+1 more — $100 · PhilanthropyWAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $5,000 · EnvironmentTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $2,500 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,288 · Arts & CultureBlossom Hill Foundation Inc — $353 · Arts & CultureNew Canaan Preservation Alliance — $250 · Arts & CultureFRESH AIR FUND — $1,000 · Recreation & SportsNew Canaan Athletic Foundation Inc — $250 · Recreation & Sports
Other$822,595Health$300,129Education$50,000Philanthropy$8,600Environment$5,000Arts & Culture$4,391Recreation & Sports$1,250

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE JACKSON LABORATORY — $247,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWAVENY CARE CENTER INC — $51,103 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOWN PLAYERS OF NEW CANAAN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CAMPAIGN SCHOOL INC — $5,280 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $1,288 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC — $1,036 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN EMS INC — $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSPRINGBOARD 2000 ENTERPRISES INC — $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBlossom Hill Foundation Inc — $353 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOOD CANCER UNITED INC — $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEPM FOUNDATION INC — $311 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGETABOUT INC — $288 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Canaan Preservation Alliance — $250 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Canaan Athletic Foundation Inc — $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAREER RESOURCES INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FOUNDATION FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

New Canaan Community …Jim and Dede Bartlett…The Seelert Foundatio…Hobbs Family Charitab…Alexander Family Foun…The Morris Family Fou…Jeniam FoundationThe a James Bach and …Squier Family Foundat…Fairfield County's Co…Half Moon FoundationThe Lebovitz Fund
New Canaan Community Foundation IncCT30.4× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · The Morris Family Foundation · Jeniam Foundation · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · Squier Family Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Half Moon Foundation · The Lebovitz Fund

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 Corbet 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
  • Town Players of New Canaan Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 63 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines