· Private foundation
H & L Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k21 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $76k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| KENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION | $40,600 |
| BARD COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| JUDY BLACK MEMORIAL PARK AND GARDENS | $10,000 |
| THE FRICK COLLECTION | $9,650 |
| NEW YORK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $7,500 |
| CENTRAL SYNAGOGUE | $5,000 |
| METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART | $2,500 |
| WASHINGTON MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| KENT LAND TRUST | $2,000 |
| CARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY | $1,500 |
| ENTERTAINMENT COMMUNITY FUND | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| THE FARMER'S TABLE | $1,000 |
| HOLLISTER HOUSE GARDEN | $1,000 |
| CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 33% of your 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 +69% since the first grant, against +39% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 9 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, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
- KLKENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC6× · 2017–2025 · $105k · revenue +457%
- NYNew York Historical Society8× · 2018–2025 · $96k · revenue +8%
- COCONVERSATIONS ON THE GREENINC5× · 2019–2024 · $43k · revenue +312%
Funded once
- NMNEW MILFORD HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TVThe Versailles Foundation Incone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +9%
- NYNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +40%
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 Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
Organization's mission statement true to the ambitious vision of its founder and her spirit of creative risk-taking, the mission of the isabella stewart gardner museum is: - to bring to life and preserve the rich historic collection; - to…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
See schedule o for the organization's mission statement.please see description for part i, line 1, above.
The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The new york society library was founded in 1754 by the new york society, a civic-minded group formed in the belief that the availability of books would help the city of new york to prosper.
The huntington library, art museum, and botanical gardens shares its world-renowned collections to support scholarship, foster learning, inspire creativity, and offer transformative experiences for diverse audiences.
The Museum of Modern Art is a private, non-profit institution chartered by the State of New York Department of Education in 1929 to foster public awareness of modern and contemporary art. (Continued in Schedule O)
Situated on the banks of the hudson river in yonkers, new york, the hudson river museum's mission is to engage, inspire, and connect diverse communities through the power of the arts, sciences, and history.
The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hollister House Garden Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 55 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 KENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds New York Historical Society ↗
- Who funds CONVERSATIONS ON THE GREENINC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BARD COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds KENT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Frick Collection ↗
- Who funds GREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC ↗
- Who funds CARL SCHURZ PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTORS' FUND OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds The Versailles Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds KENT PRESENTS INC ↗
- Who funds KENT HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE DOE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERS FOR SUSTAINABLE HEALTHY COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds KENT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds KENT SCHOOL ↗
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: The Kestrel Foundation · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Charles & Jane Klein Family Fund · The Littman Family Foundation Inc · The Anne Hendricks Bass Foundation · The Wenden Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Dungannon Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Weingarten Family 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 H & L Family 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.
- Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities Inc — 68% of income from government
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
- Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc — 7% of income from government
- Sherman Chamber Ensemble Inc — 6% of income from government
- Washington Art Association Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- After School Arts Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bantam Cinema & Arts Center Inc — 1% 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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