· Private foundation
The Driesman Charitable Trust
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 $10k14 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEMPLE ISRAEL | $11,925 |
| BLOCK ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER | $6,600 |
| TEMPLE EMANU-EL | $4,371 |
| TEMPLE SHALOM | $4,055 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| HOMES WITH HOPE | $1,000 |
| CONGREGATION SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF RUTH | $540 |
| WAKEMAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $530 |
| WIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION | $500 |
| BLOCK ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $250 |
| NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN | $160 |
| FAIRFIELD MUSEUM | $101 |
| STEPPING STONES MUSEUM | $100 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT | $60 |
| SOUTHEAST LIGHTHOUSE FOUNDATION | $50 |
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 (FY20–22, $14k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 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.
32 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2025, 22 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $870 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
- HWHOMES WITH HOPE7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +24%
- DDONORSCHOOSEORG4× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +1%
- BIBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- BUBROWN UNIVERSITY ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PAPINK AID INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +115%
- WAWARREN ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL OF BROWN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $5k
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 manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Reach Foundation. 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 19. 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 2% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 72 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 HEARTS AROUND THE WORLD INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds DONORSCHOOSEORG ↗
- Who funds BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds PINK AID INC ↗
- Who funds UJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CT Against Gun Violence Inc ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds BLOCK ISLAND CLUB ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS OF BLOCK ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP ↗
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 James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Newman's Own Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation · The Nesi Family Foundation · Robert & Dale Rosen Charitable Foundation Tr U/A 8/05/92 · The Charlotte Foundation Inc · The Aiello 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 Driesman Charitable Trust 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.
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% 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
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County 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.