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 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.

Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc

Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

· Private foundation

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 FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$9k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

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

02FY2025 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$600

Median grant

States reached

$25k

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
CONGREGATION B'NAI ISRAEL	$9,371
WOOSTER SCHOOL	$3,000
Individual grant recipient	$1,803
Individual grant recipient	$1,518
JEWISH FEDERATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT	$1,000
Individual grant recipient	$600
SHOE4AFRICA	$500
CH BOOTH LIBRARY	$500
VERMONT ADAPTIVE	$250
ACLU	$104
PLANNED PARENTHOOD	$103
DODGINGTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT	$100

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

How this is measured

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

How this is measured

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.

03Its grantees

repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$147k · 32 repeat orgs$14k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +89% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

32 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$147k

$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+89%

+13%

Still filing today

38%

48%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHealthHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsArts & CultureInternationalOther

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.

Backed again, and grew

WS
WOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION
6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +24%
RH
REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +13%
FN
Families Network of Western CT Inc
3× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +311%

Funded once

ADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION
one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +7%
TU
THE UCONN CLUB INCgraduated
one grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +42%
WC
WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF
one grant, 2020 · $1k · revenue +6%

How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

University of New Haven

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…

Education

Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education

Arc Research Institute

Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.

Health

University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education

Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

National Association of Corporate Directors

We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.

Public Benefit

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Baldrick's Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

37 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 37 of the 79 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

36/37

Grantees still filing

29/37

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Other$135,527Human Services$13,144Recreation & Sports$4,905Education$4,514Arts & Culture$1,817Health$1,317International$1,204

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation IncCT15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Baird Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Network for Good · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

7get no government money at all

4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

0rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

How this is measured

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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home