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Dale & Laura Kutnick 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.

$706k
Granted FY2025still arriving
46
Grants FY2025still arriving
16
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0195% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Environment$1.2MPhilanthropy$660kEducation$517kArts & Culture$266kScience & Tech$152kHealth$145kInternational$131kAnimals$108kOther$0
02FY2025 · 46 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k26 grants · $98k
  • $10k–50k16 grants · $273k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $334k
$7,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YALE UNIVERSITY$100,000
PRIME COALITION INC$100,000
NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION$80,000
COMMUNITY FDN OF NEW JERSEY$54,464
CONNECTICUT INVENTION CONVENTION INC$40,000
FRIENDS OF OFANIM$30,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$25,000
FOST FOR GOOD INC$25,000
NUVANCE HEALTH$25,000
JACKSON HOLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL$18,000
UNITARIAN CHURCH IN WESTPORT$15,000
GOVERN FOR AMERICA INC$15,000
US SOCCER FEDERATION$10,000
BLUE WATER FILM FESTIVAL INC$10,000
SWEET FARM FOUNDATION$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $707k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PRIME COALITION INC: $220k → 8%FOST FOR GOOD INC: $27k → 17%ETHOS FARM PROJECT: $10k → 4%PRIME COALITION INC: $100k → 8%FOST FOR GOOD INC: $25k → 17%ETHOS FARM PROJECT: $10k → 4%PRIME COALITION INC: $100k → 8%FOST FOR GOOD INC: $25k → 17%ETHOS FARM PROJECT: $5k → 4%PRIME COALITION INC: $100k → 8%FOST FOR GOOD INC: $25k → 17%PRIME COALITION INC: $60k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
MT
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
SD
IA
PA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
CO
MO
VA
NC
DC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 52 repeat orgs$240k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

52 repeat relationships: 29 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

52
12

Total granted

$2.7M
$132k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

69%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
Arts & CultureEnvironmentAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NF
    NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $245k · revenue +291%
  • RI
    RIVERKEEPER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $235k · revenue +5%
  • CI
    CONNECTICUT INVENTION CONVENTION
    5× · 2021–2025 · $151k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +172%
  • TF
    THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC
    one grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +18%
  • SL
    STEW LEONARD III WATER SAFETY FD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
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
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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4
World Resources Institute

Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…

International
5
Cdp North America Inc

Cdp north america, inc. 's ("cdp-na") vision for the future is a thriving economy that works for people and planet in the long term. we focus investors and companies on taking urgent action to build a truly sustainable economy by measuring…

Environment
6
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
7
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
8
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
9
Grist Magazine Inc

Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.

Environment
10
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
11
Conservation X Labs Inc

To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.

Animals
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Coalition Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wildlife Conservation Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

61 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 61 of the 83 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
61/61
Grantees still filing
37/61
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

PRIME COALITION INC: $580,000 · Human ServicesPRIME COALITION INCFOST FOR GOOD INC: $102,000 · Human ServicesFOST FOR GOOD INCETHOS FARM PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $18,000 · Human ServicesYALE UNIVERSITY: $260,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITYUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION IN WESTPORT INC: $97,000 · OtherUNITARIAN UNIVERSALIST CONGREGATION IN …GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $75,000 · OtherGREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL I…CONNECTICUT INVENTION CONVENTION: $151,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT INVENTION CONVENTIONFRIENDS OF OFANIM INC: $130,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF OFANIM INCGOVERN FOR AMERICA INC: $55,000 · OtherINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · Other+41 more: $477,200 · Other+41 moreCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $652,553 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION…+1 more: $7,000 · PhilanthropyRIVERKEEPER INC: $235,000 · EnvironmentRIVERKEEPE…ISLAND PRESS: $64,500 · EnvironmentISLAND PRE…+6 more: $38,500 · Environment+6 moreNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $245,000 · Recreation & SportsHORIZONS INC: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION: $20,000 · Recreation & Sports+1 more: $2,500 · Recreation & SportsYale University: $135,000 · EducationSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $30,000 · EducationMARK TWAIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,600 · EducationCornell University: $17,500 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College: $15,000 · Education+3 more: $4,650 · EducationPRO PUBLICA INC: $37,500 · Arts & CultureMOCA CT INC: $35,500 · Arts & CultureBLUE WATER INSTITUTE: $30,000 · Arts & CultureTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $25,000 · Arts & CultureBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $23,500 · Arts & CultureWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $12,500 · Arts & CultureTHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC: $6,000 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $3,300 · Arts & Culture
Human Services$725,000Other$1,295,200Philanthropy$659,553Environment$338,000Recreation & Sports$287,500Education$227,750Arts & Culture$173,300

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY: $652,553 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetPRIME COALITION INC: $580,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION: $245,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRIVERKEEPER INC: $235,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT INVENTION CONVENTION: $151,000 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetYale University: $135,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF OFANIM INC: $130,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetFOST FOR GOOD INC: $102,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetGREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC: $75,000 over 3y, 6.3% of budgetISLAND PRESS: $64,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetGOVERN FOR AMERICA INC: $55,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetINNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetPRO PUBLICA INC: $37,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOCA CT INC: $35,500 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetRISING STARR HORSE RESCUE CORP: $32,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetWildlife Conservation Society: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE WATER INSTITUTE: $30,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetMARK TWAIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $25,600 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetETHOS FARM PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNuvance Health: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM: $23,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCODEART INC: $22,500 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetHORIZONS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSTEW LEONARD III WATER SAFETY FD INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPOUND RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY INC: $20,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetKAELI KRAMER FOUNDATION: $18,500 over 5y, 4.1% of budgetJACKSON HOLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: $18,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetCornell University: $17,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTrustees of Dartmouth College: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC: $12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetK9S FOR WARRIORS INC: $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN RIVERS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHPLACE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ASPEN INSTITUTE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetREDDING VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY NO 1 INC: $7,500 over 5y, 26% of budgetFFWD: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIVERSIDE PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Common Ground: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWestern Connecticut Health Network Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…Silicon Valley Commun…Howard & Katherine Ai…Chelsea Groton Founda…William Caspar Graust…Grace Jones Richardso…Newman's Own Foundati…California Community …Select Equity Group F…Connecticut Humanitie…ImpactassetsincIbm International Fou…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT22.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation · Chelsea Groton Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Newman's Own Foundation · California Community Foundation · Select Equity Group Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Impactassetsinc · Ibm International Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dale & Laura Kutnick Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dale & Laura Kutnick Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 2%
  • Horizons Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Connecticut Forest & Park Association: 16% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Ethos Farm Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • K9S for Warriors Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to Dale & Laura Kutnick Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Dale & Laura Kutnick Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 83 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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