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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.

$31k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$12k
Largest
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Religion$64kHealth$50kInternational$25kHousing & Shelter$23kArts & Culture$16kFood & Nutrition$13kHuman Services$11kEducation$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k14 grants · $19k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $12k
$530
Median grant
4
States reached
$687k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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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.

area typical 13%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $2k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $4k → 9%STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 9%STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 9%BUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS INC: $290 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
NY
PA
CT
RI
CA
TN
DC
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$193k · 32 repeat orgs$43k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
34

Total granted

$193k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+21%

Still filing today

56%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $870 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationHealthInternationalHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HW
    HOMES WITH HOPE
    7× · 2019–2025 · $7k · revenue +24%
  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    4× · 2018–2022 · $6k · revenue +1%
  • BI
    BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2023 · $6k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • BU
    BROWN UNIVERSITY ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2017 · $10k
  • WA
    WARREN ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL OF BROWN UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · $5k
  • PA
    PINK AID INCgraduated
    one 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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

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.

Community Improvement
3
Brighton Marine Inc

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.

Health
4
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
5
Florence Griswold Museum Inc

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.

Arts & Culture
6
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

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…

Recreation & Sports
7
Boston Harbor Now Inc

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,…

Environment
8
Food & Water Watch

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…

Food & Nutrition
9
Bridgeport Hospital

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.

Health
10
United States Naval Institute

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.

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11
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
12
Open New York Education Inc

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.

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/39
Grantees still filing
24/39
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TEMPLE ISRAEL WESTPORT INC: $31,659 · OtherTEMPLE ISRAEL WESTPORT INCBLOCK ISLAND MEDICAL CENTER: $27,194 · OtherBLOCK ISLAND MEDICAL CENTERTEMPLE SHOLOM INC: $17,135 · OtherTEMPLE SHOLOM INCBROWN UNIVERSITY ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOL: $10,000 · OtherBROWN UNIVERSITY ALPERT MEDICAL SCHOOLHOMES WITH HOPE: $7,000 · Other+47 more: $75,872 · Other+47 moreHEARTS AROUND THE WORLD INC: $18,800 · InternationalHEARTS AROUN…BIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5,940 · InternationalBIRTHRIGHT I…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 · InternationalBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $10,080 · Human ServicesSTERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,600 · Human Services+1 more: $290 · Human ServicesDONORSCHOOSEORG: $6,400 · EducationFairfield University: $1,750 · EducationBLOCK ISLAND MARITIME ISTITUTE INC: $900 · EducationWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 · EducationBLOCK ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,630 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC: $2,385 · Arts & CultureFAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM: $1,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $220 · Arts & Culture+2 more: $230 · Arts & CulturePINK AID INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyTHE REACH FOUNDATION: $500 · PhilanthropyPLEDGELING FOUNDATION: $260 · PhilanthropyOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $5,600 · Housing & Shelter
Other$168,860International$25,740Human Services$13,970Education$9,550Arts & Culture$6,465Philanthropy$5,760Housing & Shelter$5,600

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEARTS AROUND THE WORLD INC: $18,800 over 2y, 54% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $10,080 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $6,400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBIRTHRIGHT ISRAEL FOUNDATION: $5,940 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $5,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPINK AID INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC: $4,960 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $3,836 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF RHODE ISLAND INC: $3,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBLOCK ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $2,630 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCT Against Gun Violence Inc: $2,591 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH: $2,520 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBLOCK ISLAND CLUB: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC: $2,385 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHELPING HANDS OF BLOCK ISLAND INC: $2,160 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetFairfield University: $1,750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,107 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP: $1,070 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLOCK ISLAND MARITIME ISTITUTE INC: $900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY: $540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED: $520 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE REACH FOUNDATION: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDERS BEYOND BORDERS: $290 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPLEDGELING FOUNDATION: $260 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: $220 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe United States Holocaust Memorial Museum: $180 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCancer Care Inc: $108 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $60 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $54 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHPLACE INC: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT23× affinity9 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 72 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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