· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $295k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Catawba Riverkeeper Foundation | $30,000 |
| Darien YMCA | $25,851 |
| The Prospector Theater | $25,000 |
| ALS Therapy Development Institute | $25,000 |
| ACT of Connecticut | $25,000 |
| The Community Fund Darien | $20,000 |
| Hartford Hospital | $20,000 |
| ABC House - Darien | $16,000 |
| Darien Foundation | $15,000 |
| Connecticut Children's Foundation | $15,000 |
| Parkinson's Foundation | $15,000 |
| Hands on Hartford | $12,000 |
| Gettysburg College | $10,850 |
| Glastonbury Public Schools fbo Glas | $10,100 |
| ABC House - Glastonbury | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +25% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
22 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Robert & Diana Borman Family Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Robert & Diana Borman Family Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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