· Private foundation
Robert & Diana Borman Family Charitable 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
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation | $30,000 |
| Darien YMCA | $25,851 |
| ALS Therapy Development Institute | $25,000 |
| The Prospector Theater | $25,000 |
| ACT of Connecticut | $25,000 |
| Hartford Hospital | $20,000 |
| The Community Fund Darien | $20,000 |
| ABC House - Darien | $16,000 |
| Darien Foundation | $15,000 |
| Parkinson's Foundation | $15,000 |
| Connecticut Children's Foundation | $15,000 |
| Hands on Hartford | $12,000 |
| Gettysburg College | $10,850 |
| Glastonbury Public Schools fbo Glas | $10,100 |
| Connecticut Foodshare | $10,000 |
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, $195k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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 +37% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 95% 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
ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +57%- AOACT OF CONNECTICUT6× · 2020–2025 · $168k · revenue +62%
- CRCATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $142k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- CCCAMP CAPELLA INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $26k · revenue +83%
- FIFOODSHARE INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · revenue +25%
- DNDARIEN NATURE CENTER INCone grant, 2024 · $2k · revenue 0%
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 Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
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…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The purpose and activities of dana-farber, inc. are to promote and support the exempt missions of dana-farber cancer institute and to provide investment management services.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
To raise funds, reinvest and administer these funds and make distributions to danbury and new milford hospitals and other not-for profit health care affiliates.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Darien Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Multiple Sclerosis Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 45 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) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% 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.
22 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. 22 of the 28 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 ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACT OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds CATAWBA RIVERKEEPER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds DARIEN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GETTYSBURG COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds DARIEN ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DARIEN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OSWEGO UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP CAPELLA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds WELLES-TURNER MEMORIAL LIBRARY SECOND CE ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN NATURE 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: The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Riley Family Foundation · Pieter and Yvette Eenkema Van Dijk Foundation · The Rogers Family Foundation · The Catherine Jefferson Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Robert & Diana Borman Family Charitable 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.
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Community Fund of Darien — 9% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Act of Connecticut — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Darien Nature Center 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.