· Private foundation
Cyrus W & Amy F Jones & Bessie D Phelps 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of CYRUS W & AMY F JONES & BESSIE D PHELPS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k16 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY | $34,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GREATER CONNECTICUT YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $14,000 |
| THE KLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATION (KTA) | $12,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WESTERN CT | $12,000 |
| HOMES FOR THE BRAVE | $12,000 |
| MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| OLIVET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $10,000 |
| Samuel P Senior Memorial Park Inc | $8,000 |
| THE CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS HOUSATONIC COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| WILDFILE IN CRISIS | $5,000 |
| THE BARNUM FESTIVAL LLC | $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 (FY17–25, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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.
37 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 13 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- GCGREATER CONNECTICUT YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +112%
- KMKLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC8× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +126%
- ABAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- TCThe Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +38%
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.
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.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
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.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
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…
Whitney center's mission, excellence in senior living, is grounded in the principal that all elders, regardless of physical or cognitive limitation, have the right to engage in life and seek fulfillment. our ideals of self-determination,…
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.
None
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
The mission of the center is as follows:(a) to operate, oversee, administer, manage and supervise the assets and activities of saint catherine center for special needs, inc. and, including but not limited to, the assets and activities of…
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
Retirement housing
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Easton Senior Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 38 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 — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 GREATER CONNECTICUT YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds KLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
- Who funds MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTON SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EASTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Downtown Cabaret Theatre of Bridgeport ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BRADYS SMILE ↗
- Who funds SQUARE ONE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT AREA YOUTH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Charlotte Helen Bacon 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: Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · The Near and Far Association 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 Cyrus W & Amy F Jones & Bessie D Phelps 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.
- Bridge House Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Kennedy Collective Inc — 79% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Emerge Inc — 30% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% of income from government
- Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 1% 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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