How much did ESTATE OF BENJAMIN B LEWIS grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 58% of ESTATE OF BENJAMIN B LEWIS’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

03FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k15 grants · $58k
$10k–50k4 grants · $49k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$2.4M

Total assets

Largest grants

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
BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER$6,000
BRIDGEPORT YMCA$6,000
CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE$5,100
BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND$5,000
LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES (FSW$4,000
BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIET$4,000
BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION$4,000
WAKEMAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB$3,000
COUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF GREATER BRID$2,000

02The need

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 cost of living 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, United Way ALICE — 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 84% 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.

ESTATE OF BENJAMIN B LEWISlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$931k · 25 repeat orgs$30k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$931k

$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%

+83%

Still filing today

36%

17%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

Human ServicesHealthReligionRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyYouth DevelopmentOther

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

NB
NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC
7× · 2018–2024 · $109k · revenue +1398%
BC
BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +134%
CF
CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE
8× · 2017–2024 · $43k · revenue +114%

Funded once

NF
NORMA F PFRIEM URBAN OUTREACH INITI
one grant, 2017 · $15k
HN
HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSEgraduated
one grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +83%
BC
BRIDGEPORT CHILD ADVOCACY COALITION
one grant, 2017 · $4k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Bridgeport Volunteer Fire Department Inc

Public Safety & Disaster

Bridgeport Islamic Community Center

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.

Religion

Bridgewater College

Bridgewater college is a private, coeducational, residential, liberal arts college of approximately 1,500 students

Education

The University of Bridgeport Inc

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…

Education

First Baptist Housing of Bridgeport

Provide housing for elderly and disabled low income individuals.

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Bridgeport Regional Business Council

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.

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Brookville Hospital

Brookville hospital is a 35 bed critical access hospital that provides quality (see schedule o)

Health

Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health

Bridgeport Ladies Charitable Society

To grant assistance to indigent persons in the greater bridgeport area.

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Greater Bridgeport Community Enterprises Inc

To assist low-income families in disadvantaged neighborhoods achieve self-sufficiency and financial stability through jobs and the expansion of business opportunities in the growing green economy.

Environment

Bridgeport International Academy Inc

To provide a diversity of academic programs for secondary education in a university setting, and a positive learning environment for domestic and international students.

Education

The Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Public Education Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bridgeport Hospital. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

06the grantee network

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

10/10

Grantees still filing

8/10

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$554,100Religion$109,000Human Services$82,800Health$80,000Recreation & Sports$50,000Philanthropy$45,000Youth Development$37,000Education$3,000

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.

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.

Fairfield County's Community FoundationCT20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation · Tauck Family Foundation · The Demattia Charitable Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & · The Near and Far Association Inc · Klein Family Foundation Inc · Russo Family Foundation Inc · Quidditch Foundation Inc · Elizabeth M Pfriem Foundation · The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inc · Impact 100 Fairfield County · Ernest and Joan Trefz 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 organisation 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.

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⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: WAKEMAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

medium risk

~5 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 4 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

4 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 23.2× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 271709201 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on WAKEMAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

WatchFinancial stability— Roughly 5 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 9% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Estate of Benjamin B Lewis?

Find your warmest path to Estate of Benjamin B Lewis through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

ESTATE OF BENJAMIN B LEWIS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Estate of Benjamin B Lewis?

More from the funding graph

ESTATE OF BENJAMIN B LEWIS

What you funded, over time

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

10 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Estate of Benjamin B Lewis?

More from the funding graph