· Private foundation
Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation
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
- $10k–50k26 grants · $362k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY | $60,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO | $40,000 |
| M Oza | $13,000 |
| D Irving | $13,000 |
| R Tagliola | $13,000 |
| R Roberts | $13,000 |
| K Schberlein | $13,000 |
| J Heerema | $13,000 |
| A Stuhlbarg | $13,000 |
| M LADYGA | $13,000 |
| Q Davie | $13,000 |
| K Putman | $13,000 |
| A Bar-Evan | $13,000 |
| L Maiorino | $13,000 |
| T Daniels | $13,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $770k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 27% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 31% of Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 0% for the ones you funded once.
96 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 77 since wound down; 8 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- NYNew York University9× · 2017–2025 · $502k · revenue +76%
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER7× · 2017–2024 · $340k · revenue +53%
- NDNATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE4× · 2020–2024 · $315k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- NCNew Canaan Public Access Incone grant, 2020 · $29k · revenue -50% · 28% of their budget
- BHB Hermanone grant, 2017 · $15k
- RKR Krausone grant, 2017 · $15k
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…
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.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The organization promotes high professional standards and provides governance education to boards of directors and senior corporate management.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
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.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
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 Life Skills Internships. 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 41 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 137 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 LIFE SKILLS INTERNSHIPS ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL DOMESTIC VIOLENCE HOTLINE ↗
- Who funds WAVENY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago ↗
- Who funds STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC ↗
- Who funds GETABOUT INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds LEGAL MOMENTUM ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S FORUM OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds GROOVE WITH ME 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 · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · The Seelert Foundation Inc · The Morris Family Foundation · Jeniam Foundation · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · Corbet Family Foundation · MLE Foundation Inc · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Half Moon Foundation · Squier Family Foundation · The Queenan Fdn Acct
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 Jim and Dede Bartlett 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.
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Summer Theatre of New Canaan Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America 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.
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