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Hobbs Family Charitable Trust
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 $10k30 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAVENY LIFE CARE NETWORK | $100,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD THEATER BARN | $10,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| GATEWAY CENTER | $2,500 |
| THE GA JUSTICE PROJECT INC | $2,500 |
| AMERICARES | $2,000 |
| MD ANDERSON CENTER | $2,000 |
| THE GLASS HOUSE | $1,500 |
| CONG CHURCH OF NEW CANAAN | $1,500 |
| MARYVILLE COLLEGE | $1,000 |
| NEW CANAAN CARES | $1,000 |
| NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +27% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
51 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 28 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +27%
- WCWAVENY CARE CENTER INC6× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +18%
- FCFAMILY CENTERS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- SMST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $65k
- JHJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- TFTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue -14%
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 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…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To improve the health of the region and to provide healthcare services.
The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
To support its member healthcare organizations further innovation and excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is The National World War Ii Museum Inc. 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 48 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 116 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 THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAVENY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD WORKSHOP FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds PEAR TREE POINT SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARYVILLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN EMS INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN CARES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN 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: New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · The Morris Family Foundation · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · Half Moon Foundation · The Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio · Hilltop Foundation Inc · Corbet Family Foundation · The Queenan Fdn Acct · MLE 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 Hobbs Family Charitable Trust 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
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital — 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.
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