How much did FRED R & HAZEL W CARSTENSEN MEMORIAL grant in FY2025?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 70% of FRED R & HAZEL W CARSTENSEN MEMORIAL’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.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

campcongregational churchmusic

2020

campmusiccongregational church

2021

scholarshipcampcongregational churchmusic

2022

campscholarshipcongregational churchmusic

2023

campscholarshipmusiccongregational church

2024

congregational church

2025

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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k20 grants · $60k
$10k–50k5 grants · $72k

$4,000

Median grant

States reached

$5.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

Greater Bridgeport Symphony$32,000
Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestra$10,000
Mikey's Way Foundation$10,000
Homes for the Brave$10,000
The Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundation$10,000
Brady's Smile$5,000
Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation$5,000
The Connecticut Zoological Society$5,000
Bridgeport Rescue Mission$4,000
American Red Cross Connecticut Chapter$4,000
Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County$4,000
Wakeman Boys and Girls$4,000
Easton Senior Citizen's Center Inc$4,000
Life Bridge Community Services$3,000
Junior Achievement of Western Connecticut Inc$3,000

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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.

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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 44 repeat orgs$13k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$7k

Still filing today

34%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

PhilanthropyHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsAnimalsArts & CultureYouth 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

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The Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundation
8× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +126%
TC
The Connecticut Zoological Society
8× · 2018–2025 · $35k · revenue +50%
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Easton Senior Center
7× · 2018–2024 · $28k · revenue +102%

Funded once

EC
Easton Community
one grant, 2020 · $4k
RY
Regional YouthAdult Substance Abuse
one grant, 2023 · $2k
CH
Camp Hi-Rock - YMCA
one grant, 2023 · $1k

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.

The Connecticut Community Foundation

Foster equitable & inclusive community by inspiring generosity, supporting organizations & cultivating effective leaders.

Philanthropy

Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

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Branford Festival Corporation

Annual summer festival held in Branford, CT.

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Connecticut Science Center Inc

To inspire life-long learning through the operation of a state-wide science center.

Arts & Culture

New Haven Center for Performing

The mission of the new haven center for performing arts is to promote and foster an appreciation for the performing arts through the ownership and operation of indoor and outdoor performing arts facilities; to serve the local community by…

Arts & Culture

Connecticut News Project Inc

The mission is to produce original, in-depth, nonpartisan journalism that informs connecticut residents about the impact of public policy, holds governments accountable, and amplifies diverse voices and perspectives.

Arts & Culture

The Connecticut Democracy Center Inc

To educate connecticut audiences of all ages about civics, civic engagement and state government

Arts & Culture

Fine Arts Radio Inc

Fine Arts Radio, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to supporting classical and classic music in Connecticut and New York

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Chamber of Commerce of Eastern

The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut, Inc. is a collaborative of business and community leaders dedicated to securing and enhancing the economic vitality of eastern Connecticut.

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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

Connect Us Inc

The mission is to bring together suburban and urban neighbors in partnership to improve the quality of outcomes for young people living in communities of concentrated poverty. Connect-Us youth programs are designed to compliment formal…

Youth Development

The Connecticut Center for Nursing

To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.

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 Christian Camps & Conference Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

05the grantee network

17 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)

15/17

Grantees still filing

12/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$799,500Philanthropy$172,250Human Services$46,000Animals$34,500Recreation & Sports$27,000Arts & Culture$24,000Youth Development$23,000

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 FoundationCT23.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation · Cyrus W & Amy F Jones & · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association Of · The Near and Far Association Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · The Pfizer 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 organisation FRED R & HAZEL W CARSTENSEN MEMORIAL 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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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: Easton Senior Center.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 060958099 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 Easton Senior Center, 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

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 10% 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.

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How do I get to Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial?

Find your warmest path to Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial 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.

FRED R & HAZEL W CARSTENSEN MEMORIAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial?

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FRED R & HAZEL W CARSTENSEN MEMORIAL

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial?

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