· Private foundation
The Ernest W & Agnes W Kaulbach Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of THE ERNEST W & AGNES W KAULBACH CHARITABLE FOUNDATION’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 $10k21 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $33k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| CARDINAL SHEHAN CTR | $13,000 |
| VERMONT GOLF ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS OF VT | $8,000 |
| WAKEMAN BOYS CLUB | $6,000 |
| JUPITER HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
| NEW CANAAN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BOYS CLUB | $5,000 |
| HILDENE | $5,000 |
| KOLBE CATHOLIC HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| MCGIVNEY CENTER | $2,000 |
| CROSSROADS CLUB | $2,000 |
| GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| PEQUOT LIBRARY | $1,500 |
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 (FY19–25, $43k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 3% 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.
30 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 8 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- BHBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL8× · 2017–2025 · $534k · revenue +74%
- CHCAROLINE HOUSE INC5× · 2017–2023 · $80k · revenue +27%
- RFRAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC4× · 2017–2020 · $12k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $5k
- ESEVANS SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $5k
- WBWAKEMAN BAYS CLUBone grant, 2019 · $4k
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.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
The mission of the center is as follows:(a) to operate, oversee, administer, manage and supervise the assets and activities of saint catherine center for special needs, inc. and, including but not limited to, the assets and activities of…
To improve the health of the people in the communities we serve by integrating patient care, education, and research in a caring environment.
To remain a locally focused recreation area that balances quality, affordability, and sustainability in a way that best serves the community.
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…
Squashbridge will be a one-of-its-kind athletic, educational, and community center in bridgeport for people of all ages and backgrounds.
The university promotes academic excellence, personal responsibility and commitment to service. distinctive curricula in an international, culturally diverse supportive learning environment prepare graduates for life and leadership in an…
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cardinal Shehan Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Father Flanagan's Boys' Home. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 48 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 BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds RAYMOND F KRAVIS CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT GOLF ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds URBAN OUTREACH INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN MOUNTAIN ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds FIRST SERVE BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JOHNS FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Father Flanagan's Boys' Home ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
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 · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Ernest W & Agnes W Kaulbach Charitable 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.
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Bridgeport Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association — 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.