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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k20 grants · $104k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| UNITED JEWISH FEDERATION OF STAMFORD | $12,500 |
| ELAYNE AND JAMES SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| TEMPLE BETH EL | $7,500 |
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 (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. 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.
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 +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $53k 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
- IIINSPIRICA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +15%
- PHPACIFIC HOUSE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $117k · revenue +68%
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC6× · 2019–2024 · $67k · revenue +62%
Funded once
- UIUSF ISRAEL EMERGENCY FUNDone grant, 2023 · $50k
- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branchesone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +23%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +13%
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 mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
To provide free health care to uninsured residents of norwalk, danbury, stamford & bridgeport ct.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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.
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…
Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.
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…
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ari of Connecticut Inc and 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.
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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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 11% 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.
40 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. 40 of the 76 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 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 OPIN INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CURTAIN CALL 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 AMERICARES FOUNDATION 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: 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
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 Leon N Lapine Residuary Trust 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.
- 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
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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