· Private foundation
Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k65 grants · $268k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $9,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,747 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,683 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,078 |
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, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 0% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 82% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
126 repeat relationships — 48 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 22 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k 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
- PTPERSON TO PERSON INC7× · 2017–2025 · $64k · revenue +19%
- WYWILTON YOUTH COUNCIL INC8× · 2018–2025 · $53k · revenue +208%
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER8× · 2017–2025 · $48k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- WLWILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +9%
- CHCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +21%
- UOUniversity of Botswanaone grant, 2023 · $18k
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.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.
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,…
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the connecticut foster care system.
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…
United way of connecticut is proud to be a trusted and vital resource for help and information about what the people of connecticut need. we respond to requests for food, housing, health care, child care, child development resources,…
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
To improve the health and well-being of our community by providing high quality, coordinated health and support services, accessible to all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is People 1ST 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 37 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
80 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 80 of the 256 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON YOUTH COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds KEYSTONE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds The Community Nursery School Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL AIDS INTERFAITH ALLIANCE (GAIA) ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE 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 · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Bauer Family Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Ge Aerospace 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 Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust 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
- Keystone House Inc — 66% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Covenant to Care for Children Inc — 35% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Community Resources for Justice Inc — 34% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Human Services Council Inc — 27% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
- Steps Inc — 18% of income from government
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Discovery Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
- Thrown Stone Theatre Company — 13% of income from government
- The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc — 12% of income from government
- Positive Directions-the Center for Prevention & Counseling Inc — 11% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc — 5% of income from government
- Higher Edge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% 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
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Norwalk Youth Symphony Inc — 2% of income from government
- Danbury Music Centre — 1% of income from government
- Wilton Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Orchestra Lumos Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wilton Library Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital — 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.