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Ossen Family Foundation
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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 53% of OSSEN FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $369k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $376k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR MEDICARE ADVOCACY INC | $100,000 |
| GENERATIONS FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC | $70,000 |
| CLICK INC | $55,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC | $50,500 |
| THE NEIGHBOR FUND | $50,000 |
| CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| MY SISTERS' PLACE INC | $41,000 |
| THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE | $33,879 |
| WOMENS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC | $30,000 |
| THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $27,500 |
| GLASTONBURY ABC INC | $25,000 |
| HIGHER EDGE INC | $25,000 |
| CHARLOTTE HUNGERFORD HOSPITAL & BACKUS HOSPITAL | $20,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT | $20,000 |
| MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC DBA MAKE THE ROAD CT | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 22% of Ossen Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +4% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
49 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 43 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k 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
- CLCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC4× · 2021–2025 · $405k · revenue +16%
- ECEASTERN CONNECTICUT WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC2× · 2020–2021 · $271k · revenue +84%
- HIHORIZONS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +273%
Funded once
- CMCenter Medicare Advocacyone grant, 2022 · $100k
- CFCenter for Medicare Advocacy In.one grant, 2022 · $100k
- ECEastern CT Workforce Investment Boardone grant, 2022 · $100k
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 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…
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
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 western connecticut area agency on aging, inc. (wcaaa) develops, manages and provides comprehensive services through person centered planning for seniors, caregivers and individuals with disabilities in order to maintain their…
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Card Home for the Aged 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 40 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
98 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. 98 of the 160 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 CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MEDICARE ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN CONNECTICUT WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS FAMILY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLICK INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Thames River Community Service Inc ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY HOME AND SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Neighbor Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds MY SISTERS' PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GLASTONBURY ABC INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER 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: Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Peoples United Community Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation 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 Ossen Family 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.
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
- Twin Pines Housing Trust — 100% of income from government
- Connecticut Alliance of Foster and Adoptive Families Inc — 90% of income from government
- Second Wind Foundation — 85% of income from government
- Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
- Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board Inc — 80% of income from government
- Community Health Resources Inc — 79% of income from government
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation — 77% of income from government
- Windham Regional Community Council Inc — 76% of income from government
- Thames River Community Service Inc — 76% of income from government
- United Services Inc — 74% of income from government
- Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery Inc — 67% of income from government
- Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc — 63% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- Martin House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- Holy Family Home and Shelter Inc — 47% of income from government
- Click Inc — 44% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc — 40% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- South Park Inn Inc — 29% of income from government
- My Sisters' Place Inc — 26% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- Generations Family Health Center — 20% of income from government
- Health Education Center Inc — 19% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Advance Transit Inc — 18% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Natchaug Hospital Inc — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Higher Edge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Veterans Base Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Place Norwich Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cover Home Repair Inc — 3% of income from government
- Watkinson School — 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 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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