· Private foundation
The Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Memorial 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 42% of THE ELLEN JEANNE GOLDFARB MEMORIAL CHARITABLE TRUST’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k41 grants · $164k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $151k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING | $25,000 |
| THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| BUSHNELL CENTER | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD INC | $16,000 |
| HALL HIGH SCHOOL | $12,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT | $12,000 |
| GRACE ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY | $10,000 |
| HEALING MEALS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| WEST HARTFORD DEPARTMENT OF FINE & PERFORMING ARTS | $9,010 |
| HARC INC | $7,500 |
| CONNECTICUT RADIO INFORMATION SYSTEM INC | $7,500 |
| THE COVE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN | $7,000 |
| REAL ART WAYS | $7,000 |
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 (FY21–25, $77k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
54 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 7 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- TBTHE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC5× · 2021–2025 · $100k · revenue +23%
- HMHEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION5× · 2021–2025 · $50k · revenue +22%
- CRCONNECTICUT RADIO INFORMATION SYSTEM INC5× · 2021–2025 · $35k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- WHWEST HARTFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2024 · $15k
- WMWILLIAM & MARY COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $4k
- SSSOLOMON SCHECHTER DAY SCHOOL OF GREATER HARTFORD INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +43%
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…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the most unlike its peers is Rob the Drummer Educational Programs Inc. 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 45 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
43 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. 43 of the 68 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 THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds INTENSIVE EDUCATION ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RADIO INFORMATION SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds HARC INC ↗
- Who funds HILL-STEAD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds The Cove Center for Grieving Children Inc ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds Ballet Theatre Company ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF BOSTON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Playhouse Theatre Group Inc ↗
- Who funds JUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Vanderbilt University ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · Jewish Community Foundation of Greater Hartford Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Edgemer Foundation Inc · The Fund for Greater Hartford 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 Ellen Jeanne Goldfarb Memorial 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.
- Harc Inc — 92% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
- Brandeis University — 9% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Trustees of Boston College — 3% of income from government
- Justice Dance Performance Project Inc — 2% of income from government
- Intensive Education Academy Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Solomon Schechter Day School of Greater Hartford Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 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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