· Private foundation
R S Gernon Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION FUEL | $8,000 |
| MADONNA PLACE INC | $8,000 |
| THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE INC | $7,500 |
| MARTIN HOUSE INC | $7,000 |
| EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY | $6,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE NORWICH | $5,000 |
| UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSN EASTERN CT | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT | $5,000 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| ROSE CITY LEARNING CENTER | $5,000 |
| SAFE FUTURES INC | $5,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS OF CONNECTICUT INC | $5,000 |
| THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL COMMUNITY ACTION | $5,000 |
| CONNECTICUT PUBLIC AFFAIRS NETWORK INC | $5,000 |
| READ TO GROW INC | $5,000 |
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, $104k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 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.
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.
28 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 5 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, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $23k 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
- MPMadonna Place Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $34k · revenue +60%
- AHALWAYS HOME INC5× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +72%
- SFSafe Futures Inc4× · 2020–2025 · $25k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- FBFURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEAST CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -40%
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INCone grant, 2024 · $6k · revenue +23%- OLOTIS LIBRARYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +67%
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…
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.
The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the connecticut foster care system.
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.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
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 living accomodations in residential settings for developmentally disabled individuals in the shoreline area of connecticut.
To enhance the care, education, and development of Connecticut's young children, in the context of family, and community; and to support the professionals who care for them. CTAEYC provides training to increase the competencies of…
To provide quality services to meet selected needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the greater new haven region.
The mission of the als united connecticut is to provide comprehensive support to improve quality of life for people with als and their families, while advocating for increased support and advancing innovative research for new treatments…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community and Family Servicesinc and the most unlike its peers is Rose City Learning Center. 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 45 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 37 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 Madonna Place Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds Martin House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds STEPS Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds NORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds Thames River Community Service Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds ARTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT STORYTELLING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEAST CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds United Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Rose City Learning Center ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE NORWICH INC ↗
- Who funds OTIS LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds LUMIBILITY 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: Chelsea Groton Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Elsie a Brown Fund 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 R S Gernon 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.
- United Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut — 85% of income from government
- Artreach Inc — 79% of income from government
- Lumibility Inc — 73% of income from government
- Thames River Community Service Inc — 62% of income from government
- Martin House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 43% of income from government
- United Community and Family Servicesinc — 26% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Place Norwich Inc — 26% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 25% of income from government
- Steps Inc — 22% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 20% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 11% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding 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.