· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| HOMES WITH HOPE | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
- WAWARREN ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL OF BROWN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2018 · $5k
- PAPINK AID INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue +115%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
39 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND 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 ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM ↗
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Driesman Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Driesman Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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