· Private foundation
Stephen L Altshul Foundation
Its FY2026 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 FY2017–2026.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $68,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $95,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $27,000 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k21 grants · $44k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CT | $25,000 |
| THE TAFT SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF MUSIC | $5,000 |
| YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE | $5,000 |
| LONG WHARF THEATER | $5,000 |
| CONNECTICUT POERTY SOCIETY | $2,500 |
| IRIS | $2,500 |
| VASSAR COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| WESTON PLAYHOUSE | $2,500 |
| VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER | $2,000 |
| ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| HOME HAVEN | $1,000 |
| LEAP | $1,000 |
| HARVARD COLLEGE FUND | $1,000 |
| OPERA NORTH | $1,000 |
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.
10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 65% 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
- FHFAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CT2× · 2017–2021 · $30k
- TCTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE2× · 2017–2021 · $25k · revenue -33%
- PPPLANNED PARENTHOOD2× · 2017–2021 · $11k
Funded once
- HMHILL-STEAD MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +49%
- YUYALE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- CNCHARLESTOWN NURSERY SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k
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 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…
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
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…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
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 mission of winchester community music school is to provide outstanding and diverse musical education and performance, accessible to all, in winchester, neighboring communities, and beyond.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill-Stead Museum and the most unlike its peers is Opera North. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 39 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 THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE VOTER PARTICIPATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds ELI WHITNEY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MEDIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLICK INC ↗
- Who funds OPERA NORTH ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY MUSIC CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEHAVEN 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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Yale University · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · Eder Family Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Chicago Community Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.
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