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Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable 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.

$19k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
12
Grants FY2025
28
Organizations funded FY2024
43%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$600
Largest grant, FY2025
$9,371
Organizations funded a year
20 to 33
FY2020 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
6
Total assets, FY2025
$25k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CultureEducationRecreation & SportsInternationalHuman ServicesOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving12$19k0%
FY202428$37k43%
FY202333$31k48%
FY202220$24k20%
FY202126$27k73%
FY202025$24kn/a
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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$77kHealth$25kPhilanthropy$25kEducation$15kHuman Services$7kRecreation & Sports$5kInternational$3kArts & Culture$2kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
MT
IL
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
MD
TN
DC
GA
TX

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Bnai Israel$60,6336n/a
Temple Sholom Inc$9,1954n/a
Wooster School Corporation$9,10060%
Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc$7,23440%
Families Network of Western CT Inc$4,05630%
Congregation Beth Israel Beth Israel Synagogue$3,1002n/a
REACH Western CT Inc$2,57620%
Congregation Adath Israel$2,1802n/a
Adventure Cycling Association$2,00010%
Beth El Temple$1,8912n/a
Show all 41 grantees
All grantees of Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Congregation Bnai Israel$60,6336n/a
Temple Sholom Inc$9,1954n/a
Wooster School Corporation$9,10060%
Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc$7,23440%
Families Network of Western CT Inc$4,05630%
Congregation Beth Israel Beth Israel Synagogue$3,1002n/a
REACH Western CT Inc$2,57620%
Congregation Adath Israel$2,1802n/a
Adventure Cycling Association$2,00010%
Beth El Temple$1,8912n/a
Shoe4africa Inc$1,75030%
The Uconn Club Inc$1,48012%
Danbury Grassroots Academy Inc$1,35030%
National Yiddish Book Center Inc$1,22040%
Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports$1,05040%
Woodstock Community Food Shelf$1,00010%
Hartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc$75020%
Plymouth Memory Tree Community Fund Inc$5001n/a
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$50010%
New Milford Historical Society Inc$50011%
Pushcart Players Inc$46130%
Blood Cancer United Inc$35520%
Colgate University$28810%
Stroke Onward Inc$25010%
Jewbelong Inc$25010%
Caregivers Incorporated$13625%
Special Olympics Inc$10510%
The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc$10410%
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights$10410%
Berkshire Humane Society Inc$10310%
St Baldrick's Foundation Inc$10210%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$10010%
The Borgen Project$10010%
Niagara University$10010%
Connecticut College$10010%
Bread for the City Inc$10010%
Johns Hopkins University$10010%
Safe and Sound Animal Rescue$1001n/a
St Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc$6010%
American Heart Association Inc$5210%
Habitat for Humanity Inc$5010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($46k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$10k$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWooster School Corporation: $9,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetRegional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc: $7,234 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFamilies Network of Western CT Inc: $4,056 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetREACH Western CT Inc: $2,576 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAdventure Cycling Association: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShoe4africa Inc: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Uconn Club Inc: $1,480 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDanbury Grassroots Academy Inc: $1,350 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetNational Yiddish Book Center Inc: $1,220 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Adaptive Ski and Sports: $1,050 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWoodstock Community Food Shelf: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Milford Historical Society Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPushcart Players Inc: $461 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $355 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetColgate University: $288 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStroke Onward Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJewbelong Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaregivers Incorporated: $136 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetSpecial Olympics Inc: $105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights: $104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBerkshire Humane Society Inc: $103 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Baldrick's Foundation Inc: $102 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Borgen Project: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNiagara University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut College: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBread for the City Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJohns Hopkins University: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Jude Children's Research Hospital Inc: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $52 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

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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.

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About Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc reported 12 grants totaling $18,849 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 33 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
What does Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (48%), Health (16%), Philanthropy (16%).
Who are Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Congregation Bnai Israel ($61k), Temple Sholom Inc ($9k), Wooster School Corporation ($9k).
Does Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc, Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 79 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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