· Private foundation
Taylor-Zemo 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k18 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A BETTER CHANCE IN RIDGEFIELD | $10,000 |
| KIDS IN DISTRESS | $2,500 |
| RIDGEFIELD SCHOLARSHIP GROUP INC | $1,100 |
| FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC | $1,053 |
| THE RIDGEFIELD LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| ASSOCIATION OF RELIGIOUS COMMUNITIES DANBURY | $1,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD EMERGENCY FUND | $1,000 |
| THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| SOUP KITCHEN IN PROVINCETOWN | $500 |
| FULL COURT PEACE | $500 |
| AMERICARES | $260 |
| ANN'S PLACE | $257 |
| ST MICHAEL'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $253 |
| RIDGEFIELD YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $250 |
| LAUNDRY LOVE OF GREATER DANBURY | $250 |
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, $18k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 86% 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 +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 10 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, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14k 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
- RLRidgefield Library Association Inc2× · 2020–2021 · $2k · revenue +25%
- FOFRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC2× · 2024–2025 · $2k · revenue +39%
- WSWOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION2× · 2022–2023 · $2k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- KIKIDS IN CRISIS INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +67%
- SSST SPEPHENS EPISCAL CHURCHone grant, 2020 · $5k
- SSST STEPHEN'S EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2024 · $4k
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 Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
To provide preschool education for children ages 2-5.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
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.
WPKN's mission is to strengthen and enrich the community by broadcasting independent, listener-supported, and commercial-free programming.
The organization's mission is to eliminate health disparities in rhode island and beyond. the organization develops innovative public health programs, conducts translational and policy research, provides clinical services, and trains…
We counsel victims and survivors as they process their experiences of sexual violence from the past, we advocate for them as they navigate the circumstances of the present, and we educate our communities to prevent sexual violence in the…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids in Distress Inc and the most unlike its peers is Looking Glass Animal Rescue. 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 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 21% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 54 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 KIDS IN DISTRESS INC ↗
- Who funds A Better Chance in Ridgefield Inc ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds FULL COURT PEACE INC ↗
- Who funds Ridgefield Library Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds WOOSTER SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds KEELER TAVERN ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUP KITCHEN IN PROVINCETOWNINC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD SCHOLARSHIP GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds THE ALDRICH CONTEMPORARY ART MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDDLE EAST CHILDREN'S ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
- Who funds ANNS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Ridgefield Operation for Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds CASTLEMAN DISEASE COLLABORATIVE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds SHARE SELF-HELP FOR WOMEN WITH BREAST OR OVARIAN CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE MANATEE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds LOOKING GLASS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
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: Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Goldstone Family Foundation · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Pf & Rj Morganti Foundation · Patrick Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Anne S Richardson Fund Xxxxx3004 · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Ibm International 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 Taylor-Zemo 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.
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
- Ridgefield Historical Society Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc — 2% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
- Act of Connecticut — 1% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kids in Distress 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.