· Private foundation
Fromson Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY | $5,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–22, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 20 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
- RAREAL ART WAYS INC6× · 2017–2022 · $247k · revenue +86%
- HPHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY5× · 2017–2022 · $216k · revenue +48%
- HHHartford Hospital4× · 2017–2021 · $30k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- GHGreater Hartford Arts Council Incone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -52%
- HHHAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $4k · revenue +16%
- HYHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +34%
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 purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Hartford Preservation Alliance's primary mission is to preserve and revitalize Hartford's unique architectural heritage and neighborhood character.
Museum
The Avery-Copp Museum celebrates, preserves, and documents the historic home, its collection, and the grounds belonging to the Avery and Copp families in Groton, Connecticut. Our purpose is to engage the public in learning about history of…
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 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…
To preserve historically significant properties in the hartford community, purchasing same, if possible, and maintaining them as historical landmarks.
The Noah Webster House Inc. preserves, interprets, and champions Noah Websters legacy and birthplace, as well as the evolving history of West Hartford, the town that nurtured him.
To make art enjoyable, inspirational and accessible to the people of new london, new england and beyond. the lyman allyn art museum preserves, enhances, displays and illuminates a collection of fine and decorative arts, held in trust for…
Hill-stead museum (hsm), a nat'l historic landmark, serves diverse audiences in ct and beyond as a welcoming place for learning, reflection and enjoyment.
To educate a diverse public about the significance of New Hampshire's past and its relationship to our lives today. To this end, the Society collects, preserves, and interprets material pertaining to New Hampshire history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Public Library and the most unlike its peers is Berkeley Public Schools Fund. 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 45 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 37 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 REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE MAURICE C LA GRUA CENTER ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds THE STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc ↗
- Who funds AVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERFRONT RECAPTURE INC ↗
- Who funds Salt Marsh Opera Company ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds RELIEF INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STONINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNTAIN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Early Music Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Berkeley Public Schools Fund ↗
- Who funds JAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Noank Historical Society 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: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Doogood Foundation Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family 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 Fromson 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.
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Riverfront Recapture Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- The Stonington Free Library Inc — 2% of income from government
- Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc — 2% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 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.