· 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| 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 |
| CH BOOTH LIBRARY | $500 |
| SHOE4AFRICA | $500 |
| VERMONT ADAPTIVE | $250 |
| ACLU | $104 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $103 |
| DODGINGTOWN VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT | $100 |
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 (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. 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.
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 +89% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- WSWOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +24%
- RHREGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC4× · 2020–2024 · $7k · revenue +13%
- FNFamilies Network of Western CT Inc3× · 2021–2024 · $4k · revenue +311%
Funded once
ADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue +7%- TUTHE UCONN CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2024 · $1k · revenue +42%
- NHNUVANCE HEALTH FOUNDATIONone grant, 2024 · $1k
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 bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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.
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.
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…
Our mission is to accelerate scientific progress, understand the root causes of disease, and narrow the gap between discoveries and impact on patients.
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.
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.
We empower directors and transform boards to be future ready.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Baldrick's Foundation Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
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 — 0.0% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 79 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 WOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Families Network of Western CT Inc ↗
- Who funds REACH Western CT Inc ↗
- Who funds ADVENTURE CYCLING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SHOE4AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE UCONN CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds DANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL YIDDISH BOOK CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT ADAPTIVE SKI AND SPORTS ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK COMMUNITY FOOD SHELF ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW MILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PUSHCART PLAYERS 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: 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
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 Lenore R Bland & Sydney F Bland Charitable 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.
- Pushcart Players Inc — 18% of income from government
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc — 17% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 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.