· Private foundation
George Hc Ensworth Memfund Tr
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| LAYAVINYASA COMPANY | $5,000 |
| NUTMEG BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | $5,000 |
| OAK HILL | $5,000 |
| CONCORA | $5,000 |
| OPERATION FUEL INC | $5,000 |
| GLENBROOKE OUTDOOR SPORTS CENTER | $3,600 |
| COVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC | $3,000 |
| WOMAN SURVIVAL INC | $2,500 |
| LITTLE THEATRE OF MANCHESTER INC | $1,500 |
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.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 6 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, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- CCCONNECTICUT CHORAL ARTISTS INC5× · 2020–2025 · $22k · revenue +1%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC4× · 2020–2025 · $19k · revenue +101%
- THTHE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC3× · 2022–2024 · $15k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- LILIVFREE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +36%
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.
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.
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…
Connecticut Land Conservation Council, Inc.s mission is to elevate and strengthen land conservation in Connecticut.
To help connecticut manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques to become more competitive, supporting the growth of connecticut economy.
CT Votes for Animals (CVA) is a state-wide, grass-roots animal advocacy organization dedicated to improving the lives of CTs animals by championing legislative change. CVA effects policy change by mobilizing animal supporters in…
Classical Ballet Instruction and Performance
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woman Survival Inc. 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 22 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 OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHORAL ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAYAVINYASA COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN PLACEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds CUATRO PUNTOS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds LIVFREE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds GLENBROOKE OUTDOOR SPORTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE THEATRE OF MANCHESTER 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Foulds Wm Cotr Uw W F Fam Fd · American Savings Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Connecticut Community 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 George Hc Ensworth Memfund Tr 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.
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc — 47% of income from government
- Covenant to Care for Children Inc — 35% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Layavinyasa Company — 3% of income from government
- Cuatro Puntos Inc — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% 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.