· Private foundation
The Bussmann Family Foundation
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHILDRENS CENTER | $5,000 |
| NOTRE DAME HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| MERCY HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| OUR LADY OF GRACE MONESTARY | $5,000 |
| CLIFFORD BEERS CLINIC | $5,000 |
| XAVIER HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| NEW REACH | $5,000 |
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| LITTLE SISTERS OF THE POOR | $5,000 |
| ANNE E FOWLER FOUNDATION INC | $5,000 |
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG | $5,000 |
| ST RITA SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| ALL SAINTS CATHOLIC ACADEMY | $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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +44% since the first grant, against -57% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 2 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, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- CBCLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +44%
- CHCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +45%
- AMALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- OLOUR LADY OF VICTORY HIGHT SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k
- YOYESHIVA OF NEW HAVEN INC FORMERLY FILED AS THE GAN SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -57%
- OLOUR LADY OF MERCYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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…
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.
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…
See schedule oat cjr, we believe every young person should have the opportunity to thrive. our mission is to provide the necessary therapeutic treatment, education, and support for young people and their families to promote positive change…
To ensure healthy outcomes for all children in connecticut by advancing effective policies, stronger systems, and innovative practices.
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.
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
Working in close partnership with new haven public schools, elm city montessori school (ecms) will offer new haven families a high-quality, public montessori school program. elm city montessori school is a racially and economically diverse…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Center and the most unlike its peers is Anne E Fowler Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 25 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 NEW REACH INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CONTINUUM INC ↗
- Who funds CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER ↗
- Who funds ANNE E FOWLER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YESHIVA OF NEW HAVEN INC FORMERLY FILED AS THE GAN SCHOOL ↗
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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Louis F & Mary a Tagliatela Family Foundation · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Yale University · City Missionary Association of New Haven · Lewis G Schaeneman Jr Foundation Inc · North Haven Rotary Foundation Inc · Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
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 Bussmann Family Foundation 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.
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Youth Continuum Inc — 76% of income from government
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
- Albertus Magnus College — 6% 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.