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Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc at a glance

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Harriet & M Fred Cartoun 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.

$38k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
6
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$66kFood & Nutrition$57kReligion$43kPhilanthropy$30kArts & Culture$26kHealth$8kYouth Development$6kEnvironment$5kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$2,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$682k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MARK TWAIN LIBRARY$7,500
THE NEWTOWN FUND$5,000
THE FAITH FOOD PANTRY$5,000
CONGREGATION EMANUEL OF WESTCHESTER$3,000
NEWPOND FARM$2,600
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF REDDING$2,500
ETOWN$2,000
WY'EAST ZEN CENTER$2,000
DEATH OF CLASSICAL INC$2,000
LIVING TRADITIONS INC$2,000
REDDING LAND TRUST$1,500
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION$1,000
MILE IN MY SHOES$1,000
THE CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT & EDU$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%AT HOME ON THE SOUND: $500 → 9%STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE: $2k → 10%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
MN
NY
MA
OR
CT
CO
TN
TX
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$227k · 13 repeat orgs$22k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +63% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

13 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
18

Total granted

$227k
$18k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+3%

Still filing today

54%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureFood & NutritionHealthEducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • FF
    FAITH FOOD PANTRY
    7× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +111%
  • ET
    E TOWN
    5× · 2021–2025 · $10k · revenue +63%
  • DO
    DEATH OF CLASSICAL INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $8k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • NC
    NEWTOWN CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +25%
  • ST
    STEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue +253%
  • NY
    NEW YORK HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2021 · $2k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
New York Public Radio

To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.

Arts & Culture
2
Wmht Educational Telecommunications Inc

Wmht enriches communities and elevates diverse perspectives by providing content, connection, and conversation that advance education, culture, and civic engagement.

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3
Bang On a Can

Presenting, commissioning, performing, recording and teaching contemporary music. bang on a can believes in exposing exciting new music as broadly and accessibly as possible. through it's summer institute, bang on a can hopes to bring this…

Arts & Culture
4
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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5
The Connecticut River Foundation At Steamboat Dock Inc

The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
6
American Museum of the Moving Image

See schedule omuseum of the moving image (momi) is the only museum in the u.s. that explores the central technology of the present moment.screens are all around us. we use them to educate, entertain, and communicate. the moving…

Arts & Culture
7
Block Island Film Festival
Arts & Culture
8
Kestrel Land Trust

Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land

Environment
9
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment
10
Westchester Philharmonic Inc

The westchester philharmonic provides innovative performances, and educational programs,showcasing new musicians, composers and conductors,and is committed to being an inclusive organization that invites and attracts people of diverse…

Arts & Culture
11
American Museum of Natural History

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."

Arts & Culture
12
The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre

Long wharf theatre is dedicated to producing boundary-breaking theatre with and for its many, kaleidoscopic communities. our vision is theatre for everyone.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jazz At Lincoln Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fracture Service Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

23 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 23 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
14/23
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MARK TWAIN LIBRARY: $62,850 · OtherMARK TWAIN LIBRARYNEWTOWN FUND INC: $29,974 · OtherNEWTOWN FUND INCCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF WESTCHESTER: $29,300 · OtherCONGREGATION EMANU-EL OF WESTCHESTERNEW POND FARM: $22,600 · OtherNEW POND FARMWY'EAST ZEN CENTER: $14,000 · OtherWY'EAST ZEN CENTERE TOWN: $9,700 · OtherE TOWN+12 more: $11,220 · Other+12 moreFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $32,700 · Food & NutritionFAITH FOOD PANT…REAL FOOD CT: $2,000 · Food & NutritionREAL FOOD CTDEATH OF CLASSICAL INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureNEWTOWN CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureLIVING TRADITIONS INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,000 · Arts & CultureMuseum of Modern Art: $1,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $250 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF REDDING EASTON INC: $5,500 · Youth DevelopmentAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,000 · HealthMILE IN MY SHOES: $1,000 · HealthRedding Land Trust Inc: $3,500 · EnvironmentHOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 · EnvironmentMONROE MANDOLIN CAMP: $3,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · Education
Other$179,644Food & Nutrition$34,700Arts & Culture$16,250Youth Development$5,500Health$5,000Environment$4,500Education$3,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetFAITH FOOD PANTRY: $32,700 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetE TOWN: $9,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetDEATH OF CLASSICAL INC: $8,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF REDDING EASTON INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $4,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRedding Land Trust Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMONROE MANDOLIN CAMP: $3,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetNEWTOWN CHILDRENS MUSEUM INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIVING TRADITIONS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPS TO END DOMESTIC VIOLENCE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetREAL FOOD CT: $2,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMuseum of Modern Art: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCT CYCLING ADVANCEMENT PROGRAMINC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT PRECIOUS RESCUE INC: $550 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAT HOME ON THE SOUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFRACTURE SERVICE FUND INC: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFILM FORUM INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Newtown Savings Bank …Union Savings Bank Fo…Fairfield County's Co…Synchrony FoundationGe Aerospace Foundati…The Blackbaud Giving …Vanguard Charitable E…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
Newtown Savings Bank Foundation IncCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 38%
  • Steps to End Domestic Violence Inc: 71% of income from government
  • Housatonic Valley Association Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Real Food Ct: 17% of income from government
  • The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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