· Private foundation
Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k63 grants · $91k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $30,000 |
| ALLIANCE OF RESIDENT THEATRESNY | $25,000 |
| QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| MY FRIEND ABBY | $20,000 |
| FUND FOR LACHAT TOWN FARM | $20,000 |
| SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY | $17,000 |
| NYU TISCH SCHOOL OF THE ARTS | $15,750 |
| HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY | $15,000 |
| CASTLE OF OUR SKINS | $12,500 |
| KEREM SHALOM | $10,000 |
| RADIUS ENSEMBLE | $10,000 |
| METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK | $9,000 |
| WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | $7,500 |
| COMMUNITY THERAPEUTIC DAY SCHOOL | $7,500 |
| PERSON TO PERSON | $7,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY18–24, $39k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 69% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
117 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 46 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- PPPOLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL7× · 2018–2024 · $130k · revenue +60%
- MFMY FRIEND ABBY INC6× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +52%
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY6× · 2019–2024 · $80k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- MCMOCA CT INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $20k · revenue +57%
THE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue -16%- MGMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITALone grant, 2021 · $10k
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…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…
Wamc is chartered by the new york state board of regents to "furnish, prepare and present non-profit and non-commercial educational, instructional and cultural radio programs and also non-profit and non-commercial programs (wamc's mission…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Weston Warm-Up 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.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
84 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. 84 of the 143 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 POLY PREP COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds FUND FOR LACHAT TOWN FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MY FRIEND ABBY INC ↗
- Who funds SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BOSTON MODERN ORCHESTRA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY THERAPEUTIC DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds RADIUS ENSEMBLE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Music for Youth Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY ACCESS TO THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CASTLE OF OUR SKINS INC ↗
- Who funds MOCA CT INC ↗
- Who funds CONCORD SCOUT HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN COLLEGE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW GALLERY CONCERT SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds ACTORS' SHAKESPEARE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds UNCORNERED INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JORDAN PORCO FOUNDATION ↗
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 · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · The Lundberg Family Foundation · The Shack Sackler Foundation · The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Mutual of America Foundation · Smilow Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven 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 Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation 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.
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Cultural Alliance of Fairfield County Inc — 41% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
- Uncornered Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Actors' Shakespeare Project — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Radius Ensemble Incorporated — 5% of income from government
- Musiconnects Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
- Boston Modern Orchestra Project Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% of income from government
- Community Access to the Arts Inc — 2% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
- Boston Youth Symphony Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Wgbh Educational Foundation — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Silver Hill Hospital 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.