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The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $108k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $187k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $620k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE GIVING ACCOUNT | $620,000 |
| NORWALK HOSPITAL | $100,000 |
| MARITIME AQUARIUM THE | $25,000 |
| COUNCIL OF ITALIAN-AMERICAN SOCIETIES OF GREATER BRIDGEPORT | $16,750 |
| FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| ST LUKE'S SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| BJ RYAN'S FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| GRIFFIN HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| TRUMBULL PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $10,000 |
| MENTOR | $10,000 |
| NY STEM CELLL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| WOOFGANG & CO | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 16% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.
101 repeat relationships — 39 still active in FY2024, 62 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $154k 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
- PCPALLIATIVE CARE AND EDUCATION FOR RURAL6× · 2017–2023 · $210k · revenue +451% · 41% of their budget
- TMTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC8× · 2017–2024 · $154k · revenue +65%
- YNYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL6× · 2017–2024 · $94k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- NHNUVANCE HEALTH ASSOCone grant, 2023 · $100k
- BPBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2020 · $25k
- ABABILITY BEYOND DISABILITY INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue +7%
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…
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
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…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
111 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 111 of the 199 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 Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds PALLIATIVE CARE AND EDUCATION FOR RURAL ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GRIFFIN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds New York University ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK STEM CELL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL OF ITALIAN AMERICAN SOCIETIES OF GREATER BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds CEREBRAL PALSY OF WESTCHESTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds TEAM WOOFGANG & CO INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC ↗
- Who funds SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds LAMBDA LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY BEYOND DISABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITIES 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Elizabeth M Pfriem Foundation · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The Bauer Family Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts
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 Aiello Charitable 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.
- The Barnum Museum Foundation Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Connection Inc — 99% of income from government
- Bridge House Inc — 88% of income from government
- The Child and Family Guidance Center Inc — 86% of income from government
- The Kennedy Collective Inc — 79% of income from government
- Colors of the World Inc — 72% of income from government
- Community Solutions Inc — 55% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Connecticut Certification Board Inc — 43% of income from government
- Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum of Norwalk Inc — 43% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Catalyst Ct Inc — 37% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Human Services Council Inc — 27% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc — 13% of income from government
- The Palace Theater Group Inc — 12% of income from government
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp — 11% of income from government
- Sterling House Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- Mcgivney Community Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Griffin Hospital — 2% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Emmanuel College — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- St Luke's Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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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