· Private foundation
Edgemer Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k11 grants · $33k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $277k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $380k
- $250k+3 grants · $1.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIFT FUND | $500,000 |
| JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD | $273,250 |
| NAGEN PROJECT | $250,000 |
| LAFAYETTE COLLEGE | $75,000 |
| BUSHNELL CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS | $55,000 |
| LEAGUE OF AMERICAN ORCHESTRAS | $50,000 |
| HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $50,000 |
| CT MIRROR | $50,000 |
| HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING | $50,000 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE OF GREATER HARTFORD | $40,000 |
| ROB THE DRUMMER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC | $25,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $25,000 |
| SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP | $25,000 |
| JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 6% of your 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 +48% since the first grant, against +37% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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
- BCBowdoin College5× · 2017–2024 · $1.6M · revenue +94%
- HHHartford Hospital3× · 2017–2020 · $1.4M · revenue +92%
- LCLAFAYETTE COLLEGE6× · 2017–2024 · $1.1M · revenue +28%
Funded once
- LCLOOMIS CHAFEE SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $125k
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLANDone grant, 2017 · $100k
- TETHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITYone grant, 2021 · $50k · revenue +20%
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 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…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
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…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
Hartford HealthCare's mission is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities it serves.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the most unlike its peers is Rob the Drummer Educational Programs 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 53 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 24% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 15% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 57 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 FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds LAFAYETTE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds RENBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NAGEN PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds ROB THE DRUMMER EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF THE PHI KAPPA PSI FRATERNITY ↗
- Who funds HEBREW HOME & HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Pine Island Camp ↗
- Who funds SPERTUS INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH LEARNING AND LEADERSHIP ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Hospitality Educational Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CaringBridge ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
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: Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Memorial Charitable Trust · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman 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 Edgemer 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.
- IQuilt Partnership Inc — 100% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra 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.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to Edgemer Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Edgemer 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.