· Private foundation
Donna and Stuart Farber Family 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: 40% of DONNA AND STUART FARBER FAMILY 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 $10k34 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FDN FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH | $15,682 |
| THE FRIENDS OF LEVITT PAVILLION | $10,000 |
| OPEN DOOR SHELTER | $5,181 |
| WESTPORT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER | $3,050 |
| HOMES WITH HOPE | $2,500 |
| CHICAGO SURVIVORS | $2,500 |
| VERA INSTITUE OF JUSTICE | $2,500 |
| FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE | $2,000 |
| WESTPORT LIBRARY | $1,635 |
| CORNELL UNIVERSITY | $1,500 |
| MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $1,500 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS | $1,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 50% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- FFFOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC9× · 2017–2025 · $103k · revenue +92%
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC6× · 2019–2025 · $29k · revenue +62%
- HWHOMES WITH HOPE7× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- WCWESTPORT CINEMA INITIATIVEone grant, 2022 · $9k
- HIHAND IN HAND HURRICANE RELIEFone grant, 2017 · $5k
- TSTHE SEAL FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue +890%
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.
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…
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…
To provide healthcare services.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
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…
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
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…
To prevent the spread of hiv/aids and sexually transmitted diseases, and to reduce the associated morbidity and mortality in the developed and developing worlds through treatment, education, patient advocacy and assistance.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Weston Warm-Up Fund 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 74 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 FOUNDATION FOR PRADER-WILLI RESEARCH INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ABILITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds THE FIBROLAMELLAR CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT ROTARY CLUB FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT CINEMA INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds Cornell University ↗
- Who funds CHICAGO SURVIVORS INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds Weston Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds PINK AID INC ↗
- Who funds THE SEAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VERA INSTITUTE OF JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ACT OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds SILVERMINE GUILD OF ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Synchrony Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Fernwood Foundation · The Shack Sackler Foundation · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Viking Global Foundation 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 Donna and Stuart Farber Family 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.
- Community Renewal Team Inc — 77% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 36% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Positive Directions-the Center for Prevention & Counseling Inc — 11% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- Act of Connecticut — 1% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 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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