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Leon N Lapine Residuary Trust

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.

$235k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$17k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Human Services$458kReligion$383kHousing & Shelter$315kPhilanthropy$175kEducation$173kHealth$162kFood & Nutrition$150kArts & Culture$150kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k20 grants · $104k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $131k
$7,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STAMFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER$17,000
TEMPLE SINAI$15,000
NEW COVENANT CENTER$15,000
CURTAIN CALL INC$14,500
FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY$14,000
ELAYNE AND JAMES SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE$12,500
UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF STAMFORD$12,500
ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND$10,500
INSPIRICA INC$10,000
NORWALK HOSPITAL$10,000
PERSON TO PERSON$9,000
PACIFIC HOUSE$8,500
OPEN DOOR SHELTER$8,500
FAITH TABERNACLE MSSNY FFFLD CNTY$7,500
TEMPLE BETH EL$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $163k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $15k → 14%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $15k → 14%WORLD FOOD PROGRAM USA: $15k → 14%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $6k → 9%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $5k → 9%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $5k → 9%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $4k → 9%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $2k → 9%SILVER SOURCE INC: $8k → 9%SILVER SOURCE INC: $5k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $5k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $2k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $13k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $9k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $8k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $9k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $6k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $4k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
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.
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.1M · 50 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

50 repeat relationships: 20 still active in FY2024, 30 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

50
16

Total granted

$2.1M
$149k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+13%

Still filing today

58%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesEducationInternationalArts & CultureHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • II
    INSPIRICA INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +15%
  • PH
    PACIFIC HOUSE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +68%
  • TO
    THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $67k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • UI
    USF ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUND
    one grant, 2023 · $50k
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +13%
  • AN
    American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches
    one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +23%
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.

1
Connecticut Foodshare Inc

The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.

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2
Americares Free Clinics Inc

To provide free health care to uninsured residents of norwalk, danbury, stamford & bridgeport ct.

Health
3
Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc

Fairfield county's community foundation serves the 23 towns and cities in fairfield county, ct. we work closely with community organizations, nonprofits, businesses, and philanthropists to address challenges and identify opportunities to…

Philanthropy
4
United Services Inc

United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…

Human Services
5
United Way of Connecticut Inc

United way of connecticut is proud to be a trusted and vital resource for help and information about what the people of connecticut need. we respond to requests for food, housing, health care, child care, child development resources,…

Philanthropy
6
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
7
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
8
The Child and Family Guidance Center Inc

The child and family guidance center (cfgc) is a community-based center that provides therapeutic, prevention, early intervention as well as support services to children and families in fairfield county ct. since 1925, cfgc has provided…

Human Services
9
Foodshare Inc

Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.

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10
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Family Centers Inc

Family centers inc. is a non-stock, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to empower children, adults, families and communities to realize their potential. for more information, see schedule o.

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12
The Rowan Center Inc

We counsel victims and survivors as they process their experiences of sexual violence from the past, we advocate for them as they navigate the circumstances of the present, and we educate our communities to prevent sexual violence in the…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ari of Connecticut Inc; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Silversource 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

40 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. 40 of the 76 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
33/40
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE SINAI: $142,500 · OtherTEMPLE SINAIINSPIRICA INC: $131,500 · OtherINSPIRICA INCUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION STAMFORD NEW CANAAN DARIEN INC: $114,800 · OtherUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION STAMFORD NEW CANAAN DARIEN INCSTAMFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $111,300 · OtherSTAMFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTERTEMPLE BETH EL: $96,000 · OtherTEMPLE BETH ELNEW COVENANT CENTER: $90,000 · OtherTHE BI-CULTURAL HEBREW ACADEMY OF CONNECTICUT INCORPORATED: $81,800 · OtherSTAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $65,500 · OtherJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES: $64,500 · OtherCURTAIN CALL THEATER INC: $59,000 · Other+44 more: $779,510 · Other+44 morePACIFIC HOUSE INC: $116,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $66,500 · Housing & ShelterDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $47,500 · Human ServicesBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $30,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesHUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $21,500 · Human ServicesAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC: $12,500 · Human ServicesFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $6,500 · Human ServicesTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $113,000 · Food & NutritionStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: $32,500 · Arts & CultureCURTAIN CALL INC: $29,500 · Arts & CultureTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $25,250 · Arts & CultureSave The Children Federation Inc: $36,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · InternationalUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 · InternationalTHE FERGUSON LIBRARY: $25,500 · EducationTransports to Truth Inc: $14,500 · EducationBACK TO SCHOOL SHOP INC: $9,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE FERGUSON LIBRARY INC: $5,000 · EducationREACH PREP INC: $2,000 · Education
Other$1,736,410Housing & Shelter$183,000Human Services$163,000Food & Nutrition$113,000Arts & Culture$87,250International$76,000Education$56,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINSPIRICA INC: $131,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $116,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED JEWISH FEDERATION STAMFORD NEW CANAAN DARIEN INC: $114,800 over 8y, 1.3% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $113,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $66,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $50,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ITALIAN CENTER OF STAMFORD INC: $47,750 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $47,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $46,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetARI OF CONNECTICUT INC: $42,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $36,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC: $30,500 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC: $29,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCURTAIN CALL INC: $29,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetOPIN INC: $29,500 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetTHE FERGUSON LIBRARY: $25,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $25,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $21,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC: $21,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UMBRELLA CLUB INC: $18,500 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTransports to Truth Inc: $14,500 over 3y, 9.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC: $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBACK TO SCHOOL SHOP INC: $9,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE FERGUSON LIBRARY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORWALKSTAMFORD GRASSROOTS TENNIS & EDUCATION INC: $4,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORWALK LAND TRUST INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREACH PREP INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

  • Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION STAMFORD NEW CANAAN DARIEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ITALIAN CENTER OF STAMFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds ARI OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
  • Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF THE WORLD FOOD PROGRAM INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
  • Who funds CURTAIN CALL INC ↗
  • Who funds OPIN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE FERGUSON LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
  • Who funds HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds ISRAEL CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UMBRELLA CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗

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.

Fairfield County's Co…Alexander Family Foun…Stamford Rotary Trust…The Near and Far Asso…New Canaan Community …Viking Global Foundat…Newman's Own Foundati…Synchrony FoundationClaire L Helsing Foun…The Herbert & Nell Si…Garden Homes FundPeoples United Commun…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT47.3× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Claire L Helsing Foundation · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · Garden Homes Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation

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 Leon N Lapine Residuary Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Leon N Lapine Residuary Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 110%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Ari of Connecticut Inc: 89% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Human Services Council Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Connecticut Legal Services Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
  • The Community Fund of Darien: 9% of income from government
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Italian Center of Stamford Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Curtain Call Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
11get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 76 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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