· Private foundation
Persbacker 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC | $45,000 |
| NUVANCE HEALTH FKA WESTERN CONNECTICUT HEALTH NETWORK | $20,000 |
| NORTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION - HUSKY EXCELLENCE FUND | $15,000 |
| ANGELWOOD INC | $10,000 |
| BRIGHT HOLIDAYS INC | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION - SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS | $10,000 |
| BIT OF FAITH RANCH OF PONTE VEDRA | $10,000 |
| JUNIATA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION - ENTREPRENURIAL BOOT CAMP | $5,000 |
| ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| HUNT HILL FARM TRUST INC | $3,000 |
| REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT | $3,000 |
| MERWINSVILLE HOTEL RESTORATION INC | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 5% of Persbacker Foundation Inc’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 +11% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
27 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +79%
- BHBRIGHT HOLIDAYS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +11%
- JCJUNIATA COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- HAHUGS ACROSS THE COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +353%
- TBTHE BRAIN TUMOR NETWORK INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +1%
- ATACCESS TENNIS INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -100% · 67% of their budget
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.
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
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…
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
The Universal Health Care Foundation's mission is to be a catalyst that engages people and communities in shaping a democratic health system that provides universal access to quality health care and promotes health in Connecticut. The…
Our mission is to advance, support and promote programs and activities that fundamentally improve the health status of the people of connecticut.
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…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
We support access to and delivery of patient-centered services in your home and across our community in the northwest corner of connecticut. we strive to strengthen that support as we have done since 1904.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After School Arts Program Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hunt Hill Farm Trust. 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 32 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) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
29 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. 29 of the 42 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 FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Western Connecticut Health Network Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT HOLIDAYS INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIATA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds DERBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING THRU MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds True Blue Navy Families Benefactors Inc ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds HUGS ACROSS THE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds St Gerard Campus ↗
- Who funds HUNT HILL FARM TRUST ↗
- Who funds DE ETTE HOLDEN CUMMER MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRAIN TUMOR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds MERWINSVILLE HOTEL RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS TENNIS INC ↗
- Who funds EPIC CURE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CAMELLAS CUPBOARD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds KENT COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MILFORD COMMUNITY AMBULANCE 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: Jean Widmark and Richard Widmark Foundation Inc · The Lawrence J Portell and Natalie D Portell Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Kermit and Patricia Adler Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · The Ayco Charitable 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 Persbacker 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.
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc — 17% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
- After School Arts Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% 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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