· Private foundation
The 3 B's 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $40k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $92k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY | $18,598 |
| ST TIMOTHY CATHOLIC SCHOOL | $18,598 |
| WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC | $18,598 |
| RIDGEBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| FRACTURED ATLAS | $10,794 |
| PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| CANNON RIDGE CHAPTER OF NSDAR INC | $5,000 |
| WOODCOCK NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD THEATER BARN | $5,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| IRIS FUND | $5,000 |
| KEELER TAVERN AND MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| FOUNDER'S HALL FOUNDATION 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 (FY17–25, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 65% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2025, 10 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, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- WCWOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $72k · revenue +5%
- AWATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $63k · revenue +4%
- TRTHE RAPTOR TRUST6× · 2017–2024 · $54k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue +25%
- ECELLANOR C LAWRENCE PARK FRIENDS INCone grant, 2021 · $9k
- WIWILDLIFE IN CRISIS CAREone grant, 2020 · $8k
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…
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The adirondack council ensures the ecological integrity (clean water and air, wildlife habitat, etc.), wild character (solitude, scenic beauty, etc.), and vibrant communities of new york's six-million-acre adirondack park. the adirondack…
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…
The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).
Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)
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…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
The glacier national park conservancy works to preserve and protect glacier national park for future generations.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Raptor Trust and the most unlike its peers is The Iris Fund Inc. 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 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% 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 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.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 WOLF CONSERVATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ATLANTIC WHITE SHARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF RIDGEFIELD COMMUNITY PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADENOID CYSTIC CARCINOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE RAPTOR TRUST ↗
- Who funds Founders Hall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD ART SCHOOL ENDOWMENT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF MADISON NJ ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FRACTURED ATLAS INC ↗
- Who funds WOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds ROCKY MOUNTAIN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds PRESIDENT AND TRUSTEES OF BATES COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds MARIST UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Garden of the Gods Foundation ↗
- Who funds The Iris Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD WORKSHOP FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Care and Share Inc ↗
- Who funds CHATHAM EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
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 Ayco Charitable Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Pf & Rj Morganti Foundation · Anne S Richardson Fund Xxxxx3004 · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Diageo North America Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · 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 The 3 B's 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.
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Atlantic White Shark Conservancy Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc — 2% of income from government
- Young Men's Christian Association of Madison Nj — 1% 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.