· Private foundation
Norma F Pfriem Foundation
Its FY2017 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2017
- Under $10k3 grants · $8k
- $10k–50k11 grants · $291k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $325k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WICC HOLIDAY FUND FOR CHILDREN | $200,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL (NPFRIEM BREAST CARE CENTER) | $75,000 |
| ST CATHERINE'S CENTER | $50,000 |
| THE KENNEDY CENTER INC | $46,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION | $40,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| BETH-EL CENTER INC | $27,500 |
| THOMAS MERTON CENTER | $27,500 |
| HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $26,897 |
| APPLIED BEHAVORIAL REHABILITATION | $25,000 |
| CONNECTICUT BRAILLE ASSN INC | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR MAJOR LEAGUE INCORPORATED | $22,800 |
| MILFORD NATIONAL LOU GEHRIG LITTLE LEAGUE | $10,000 |
| FAIRFIELD CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL | $10,000 |
| NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–17, $27k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 0% 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.
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.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
New neighborhoods, inc.'s purpose is to develop, redevelop, own and manage quality housing for low and moderate income persons and families and to work to assist in the planning, re-planning, development and improvement of low and moderate…
The corporation is engaged in encouraging the cooperative efforts of neighborhood representatives, government and participating lending institutions in a combined effort to stem the decline and deterioration of the housing within the city…
To provide a compassionate community where loving care enables aged and indigent individuals from meriden and connecticut to live with dignity in a secure, homelike environment.
The mission of this corporation is to promote the general welfare of the community through (i) promotion of housing for low and moderate income people, and in particular, residents of the towns served by the mansfield housing authority and…
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
To provide low income housing
The mission of hebrew home and hospital aligns with the mission of its parent organization, hebrew health care, to provide quality services to senior adults. (see schedule o)as part of an integrated system to assist seniors in the…
Broadway housing communities seeks to actively engage and support the community we serve through a unique supportive model blending stable affordable housing, access to the arts, and early childhood education programs. (see schedule…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Junior Major League Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 16 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 THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BETH-EL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BRAILLE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR MAJOR LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds Milford National Lou Gehrig Little League ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORS HELPING NEIGHBORS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL 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: Peoples United Community Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Norma F Pfriem Foundation 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.
- Connecticut Braille Association Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Kennedy Collective Inc — 79% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
- Beth-El Center Inc — 23% 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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