· Private foundation
Kermit and Patricia Adler Foundation Inc
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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIDGEFIELD VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION | $2,000 |
| MERWINSVILLE HOTEL RESTORATION INC | $2,000 |
| UCONN FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| MEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD CT | $2,000 |
| HUNT HILL FARM TRUST INC | $2,000 |
| CARMELLA'S CUPBOARD | $2,000 |
| LOAVES & FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC | $2,000 |
| ABILITY BEYOND | $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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 -5% since the first grant, against -36% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- RAROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +7%
- HHHUNT HILL FARM TRUST4× · 2021–2024 · $8k · revenue +268%
- RIRVNAHEALTH INC3× · 2022–2024 · $6k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- AWANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INCone grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue -36%
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.
Our mission is to ensure that every potential client identified by the town of new canaan or the southwestern connecticut commission on aging, or referred to us by family, friends, medical personnel, or church group will be serviced for as…
Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.
To provide meals for the homebound, needy residents of wilton, ct on a temporary or long term basis.
The Noroton Heights Fire Department, Incorporated provides fire and other emergency response services to its district within the Town of Darien, Connecticut, as well as providing mutual aid coverage to the other fire departments in town…
Supplement and support professional fire fighters and emergency ambulance services in ridgefield, ct
Volunteer fire department that responds to active structure fires, auto accidents and medical emergencies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Meals On Wheels of Ridgefield Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hunt Hill Farm Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 14 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 LOAVES & FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CAMELLAS CUPBOARD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds MERWINSVILLE HOTEL RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds HUNT HILL FARM TRUST ↗
- Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY BEYOND DISABILITY 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: Persbacker Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Jean Widmark and Richard Widmark Foundation Inc · The Lawrence J Portell and Natalie D Portell Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Kermit and Patricia Adler 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.
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% 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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