· Private foundation
The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 63% of THE A JAMES BACH AND VONA HOPKINS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| CORNELL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| WAVENY CARE CENTER | $5,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| NORWALK HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| NEW CANAAN LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| NEW CANAAN VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE | $2,500 |
| NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN | $2,500 |
| GET ABOUT INC | $2,500 |
| SCHOOLHOUSE APARTMENTS INC | $2,000 |
| ABC HOUSE OF NEW CANAAN | $2,000 |
| FUTURE FIVE - STAMFORD | $2,000 |
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, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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 +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k 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
- WCWAVENY CARE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +18%
- CCCORNELL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +39%
- TSThe Stamford Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue 0%
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCone grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $1k
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.
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To foster an equitable and inclusive community in greater waterbury and litchfield hills by inspiring generosity, supporting organizations, and cultivating effective leaders. the foundation works to address the community's critical issues,…
Our mission is to ensure that every potential client identified by the town of new canaan or the southwestern connecticut commission on aging, or referred to us by family, friends, medical personnel, or church group will be serviced for as…
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…
Volunteer fire department
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
We are a warm and vibrant senior community, infused with jewish values, where people live their best lives.
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
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The mission of hebrew community services aligns with the mission of its parent organization, hebrew health care, to provide quality services to senior adults. (see schedule o)as part of an integrated system to assist seniors in the…
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Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Getabout Inc. 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 37 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 WAVENY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GETABOUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN EMS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLHOUSE APARTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARVEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE 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: Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Seelert Foundation Inc · Jeniam Foundation · Corbet Family Foundation · The Morris Family Foundation · MLE Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Hilltop Foundation Inc · Half Moon 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 The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins 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.
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital — 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.
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