· Private foundation
Estate of Benjamin B Lewis
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 $10k15 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC | $18,000 |
| YMCA - CAMP HI-ROCK | $11,000 |
| SUMMERFIELD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,100 |
| BRIDGEPORT CITADEL CORP SALVATION A | $10,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| JAMES J CURIALE SCHOOL | $7,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER | $6,000 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE | $5,100 |
| BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION | $4,000 |
| LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES (FSW | $4,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIET | $4,000 |
| WAKEMAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $3,000 |
| HARTFORD HEALTH CARE AT HOME (VNS) | $2,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 100% of Estate of Benjamin B Lewis’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.
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.
24 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- NBNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC7× · 2018–2024 · $109k · revenue +768%
- BCBURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +38%
- BHBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC5× · 2020–2024 · $45k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- NFNORMA F PFRIEM URBAN OUTREACH INITIone grant, 2017 · $15k
- HNHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +83%
- BCBRIDGEPORT CHILD ADVOCACY COALITIONone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
Provide religious,educational,and community services for the muslim community in the greater bridgeport area in connecticut. particpate in interfaith and all other community activties in the greater bridgeport area.
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
Founded in 1986, building neighborhoods together's (bnt) mission is to end housing insecurity, income inequality, and homelessness by creating safe, affordable housing, and providing comprehensive housing and financial counseling services…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
The university promotes academic excellence, personal responsibility and commitment to service. distinctive curricula in an international, culturally diverse supportive learning environment prepare graduates for life and leadership in an…
To increase opportunities for the people of the bridgeport region by acting to create an environment for business expansion, retention and recruitment that will result in jobs and tax base growth.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
Bridgeport Generation Now Votes is on a mission to increase voter turnout in Bridgeport elections. Key to that work is educating the public about political candidates public officials and what their public service record actually is not…
Bridges healthcare has provided a comprehensive range of mental health/substance abuse treatment (including serious mental illness, emotional disturbance, and co-occurring mental/substance use disorders) to children and adults in new haven…
I care outreach, inc. was founded in 2004 to identify and address the urgent needs of low-income, disadvantaged and at risk individuals and families within the brigeport, connecticut area and surrounding local communities. the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS INC ↗
- Who funds HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD 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 · Peoples United Community Foundation · Tauck Family Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Paloian Family Foundation Inc · The Demattia Charitable Foundation Inc · Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee
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 Estate of Benjamin B Lewis 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.
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp — 11% of income from government
- Bridgeport 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.
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