· Private foundation
The Bauer Family 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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+4 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Family & Children's Agency | $1,275,000 |
| Inspirica Inc | $1,020,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| Norwalk Hospital Foundation | $300,000 |
| Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc | $200,000 |
| Green Lake Conference Center | $150,000 |
| Focusing Philanthropy | $120,000 |
| Habitat For Humanity | $100,000 |
| Circle of Care | $100,000 |
| Elderhouse Day Care Center | $100,000 |
| International Christian Alliance on Prostitution | $100,000 |
| Goodwin University | $100,000 |
| One World Surgery | $100,000 |
| Princeton University | $100,000 |
| Tiny Miracles Foundation | $80,000 |
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, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% 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 +25% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.
53 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 8 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k 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
- SFSTEANS FAMILY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $5.3M · revenue +328%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +76%- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC5× · 2019–2025 · $1.4M · revenue +20%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- WLWilton Land Conservation Trustone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue -78% · 41% of their budget
- VNVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -2%
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 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,…
Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…
The foundation facilitates equitable access to healthcare services for the greater waterbury community. our founding principles are to provide for the healthcare needs (including medical equipment and expenses) of the 13-town greater…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Friends of nathaniel witherell is a not-for-profit organization committed to raising funds in support of the nathaniel witherell, the skilled nursing and short term rehabilitation center owned and operated by the town of greenwich, ct and…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Whitney center's mission, excellence in senior living, is grounded in the principal that all elders, regardless of physical or cognitive limitation, have the right to engage in life and seek fulfillment. our ideals of self-determination,…
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.
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 Norwalk Acts Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Cathy Kangas Foundation for Animals 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 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
65 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. 65 of the 110 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 STEANS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Wilton Land Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds PIVOT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Phoenix Pact Fund ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK ACTS INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
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 · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc · Perakis Foundation James Perakis Trustee · Jeniam Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Davatzes Family Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education 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 Bauer Family 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 Kennedy Collective Inc — 79% of income from government
- Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum of Norwalk Inc — 43% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc — 34% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Positive Directions-the Center for Prevention & Counseling Inc — 11% of income from government
- Norwalk Acts Inc — 6% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Summer Theatre of New Canaan Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven 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.
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