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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k26 grants · $98k
- $10k–50k16 grants · $273k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| PRIME COALITION INC | $100,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY | $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 |
| NUVANCE HEALTH | $25,000 |
| FOST FOR GOOD INC | $25,000 |
| JACKSON HOLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL | $18,000 |
| GOVERN FOR AMERICA INC | $15,000 |
| UNITARIAN CHURCH IN WESTPORT | $15,000 |
| SWEET FARM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| US SOCCER FEDERATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RIVERS INC | $10,000 |
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 (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. 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 +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k 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
- NFNATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $245k · revenue +130%
- RIRIVERKEEPER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $235k · revenue +5%
- CICONNECTICUT INVENTION CONVENTION5× · 2021–2025 · $151k · revenue +89%
Funded once
INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +172%- TFTHE FILM COLLABORATIVE INCone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +18%
- SLSTEW LEONARD III WATER SAFETY FD INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
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.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Grist is an independent, non profit media organization dedicated to reporting on climate change.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To improve the efficacy, speed, cost, sustainability, and scaling of conservation solutions through harnessing exponential technology, innovation, and entrepreneurship to prevent human-induced extinction.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Prime Coalition Inc and 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.
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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
61 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. 61 of the 83 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds PRIME COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOREST FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds RIVERKEEPER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INVENTION CONVENTION ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF OFANIM INC ↗
- Who funds FOST FOR GOOD INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND PRESS ↗
- Who funds GOVERN FOR AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds INNER-CITY COMPUTER STARS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRO PUBLICA INC ↗
- Who funds MOCA CT INC ↗
- Who funds RISING STARR HORSE RESCUE CORP ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds BLUE WATER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds MARK TWAIN LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Nuvance Health ↗
- Who funds THE FILM COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds ETHOS FARM PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BRONX CHILDREN'S MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds CODEART INC ↗
- Who funds POUND RIDGE LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds STEW LEONARD III WATER SAFETY FD INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED STATES SOCCER FEDERATION ↗
- Who funds KAELI KRAMER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JACKSON HOLE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Dartmouth College ↗
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: 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
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 Dale & Laura Kutnick 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.
- 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
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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