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The Hazel Dell Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Hazel Dell Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$13k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$96kHuman Services$80kPublic Safety & Disaster$70kHousing & Shelter$65kYouth Development$57kFood & Nutrition$41kPublic Benefit$27kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k14 grants · $72k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $54k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOMES FOR THE BRAVE$12,500
KIDS IN CRISIS$10,500
FILLING IN THE BLANKS$10,500
CT FIREFIGHTERS CHARTIABLE FOUNDATION$10,000
AL'S ANGELS$10,000
WESTPORT WOMENS CLUB$7,500
SERIOUS FUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK$7,500
OPERATION HOPE CT$7,500
PROSPECTOR THEATER$7,500
WOOFGANG CO$5,000
WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB$5,000
CT FOODSHARE$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
PILOT HOUSE SPECIAL NEEDS$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
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 (FY18–24, $65k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%ORIGINAL LEISURE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $10k → 11%ORIGINAL LEISURE VILLAGE FOUNDATION: $9k → 11%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $11k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $8k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $8k → 9%AL'S ANGELS: $10k → 9%AL'S ANGELS: $5k → 9%AL'S ANGELS: $5k → 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.
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$483k · 26 repeat orgs$59k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +36% since the first grant, against -58% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
6

Total granted

$483k
$39k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
-58%

Still filing today

35%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPublic BenefitRecreation & SportsAnimalsOther
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

  • AB
    APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT
    4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +36%
  • FI
    FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $26k · revenue +60%
  • WB
    WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP
    5× · 2020–2024 · $21k · revenue ×23

Funded once

  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER
    4× · 2021–2024 · $10k
  • HW
    Homes With Hope Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue -21%
  • HO
    Help Our Military Heroes Inc
    4× · 2021–2024 · $10k · revenue -77%
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
Norfolk Connecticut Childrens Foundation
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2
Wishes Can Happen Inc

Fulfillment of wishes for terminally ill children.

Health
3
Angels on the Bay Inc

To raise funds to support facilities that provide quality health care and services for children.

Philanthropy
4
American Relief Fund Inc

Engaging in relief assistance and sustainable human development program in an effort to alleviate human suffering in the world

International
5
Nicoes Foundation Children With Hope Inc Non-Profit Religious

Works with needs of sports for schools chalenged children

Human Services
6
Susies Wish Inc

Susie's Wish organizes and pays the expenses to send patients with life threatening illnesses to the beach with their families.

—
7
Richi Childhood Cancer Foundation Inc

Fundraising to improve the quality of life for children with cancer and find a cure.

Human Services
8
The Cancer Kickers Soccer Club

Providing care and comfort to children battling cancer and families of children battling cancer

Human Services
9
Cos Cob Volunteer Services Foundation Inc

To service and support volunteer fire fighting

Public Safety & Disaster
10
Wishes for Warriors Corp
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11
Husky House Inc

To help rescue, shelter and care for stray, abandoned and unwanted animals in the tri-state area, and also to help in the adoption of these animals.

Animals
12
Dream Come True of Western Ct

To grant dreams to seriously, chronically, and terminally ill children from fairfield, litchfield, and new haven counties in connecticut

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seriousfun Children's Network; the most unlike its peers is The Coleman Foundation Inc. 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

16 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. 16 of the 37 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VISITING NURSES OF CENTRAL JERSEY: $36,000 · OtherVISITING NURSES OF CENTRAL JERSEYCT FIREFIGHTERS CHARTIABLE FOUNDATION: $25,000 · OtherCT FIREFIGHTERS CHARTIABLE FOUNDATIONIndividual grant recipient: $19,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientVISUAL EXPERIENCE FOUNDATION: $18,000 · OtherVISUAL EXPERIENCE FOUNDATIONOPERATION HOPE CT: $17,500 · OtherOPERATION HOPE CTIndividual grant recipient: $17,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientCOLEMAN BROTHERS FOUNDATION: $16,000 · OtherCT FOODSHARE: $15,000 · OtherWOOFGANG CO: $15,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,000 · OtherPILOT HOUSE SPECIAL NEEDS: $15,000 · OtherWESTPORT POLICE K9 UNIT: $12,500 · OtherKEEPING THE FAITH FOUNDATION: $12,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $12,000 · Other+11 more: $66,000 · Other+11 moreFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $25,500 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE …ALS ANGELS INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesALS ANGELS INCOriginal Leisure Village Foundation: $19,000 · Human ServicesOriginal Leisur…Homes With Hope Inc: $10,000 · Human ServicesHomes With Hope…KIDS IN CRISIS INC: $35,500 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS IN CRI…WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP: $21,000 · Youth DevelopmentWAKEMAN BOY…APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT: $40,000 · HealthAPPLIED B…SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $7,500 · HealthSERIOUSFU…MONMOUTH RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB INC: $18,000 · Recreation & SportsUNITED STATES RUGBY FOUNDATION: $7,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE WESTPORT WOMAN'S CLUB INCORPORATED: $17,500 · EnvironmentJERSEY SHORE ANIMAL CENTER INC: $17,000 · Animals
Other$311,000Human Services$74,500Youth Development$56,500Health$47,500Recreation & Sports$25,000Environment$17,500Animals$17,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT: $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $25,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP: $21,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetALS ANGELS INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetOriginal Leisure Village Foundation: $19,000 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetMONMOUTH RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB INC: $18,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetTHE WESTPORT WOMAN'S CLUB INCORPORATED: $17,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetJERSEY SHORE ANIMAL CENTER INC: $17,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHomes With Hope Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetHelp Our Military Heroes Inc: $10,000 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetGOODWILL FIRE COMPANY NO 2: $8,000 over 6y, 4.7% of budgetSERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED STATES RUGBY FOUNDATION: $7,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetThe Coleman Foundation Inc: $4,000 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 APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
  • Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
  • Who funds WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP ↗
  • Who funds ALS ANGELS INC ↗
  • Who funds Original Leisure Village Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MONMOUTH RUGBY FOOTBALL CLUB INC ↗
  • Who funds THE WESTPORT WOMAN'S CLUB INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds JERSEY SHORE ANIMAL CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Homes With Hope Inc ↗
  • Who funds Help Our Military Heroes Inc ↗
  • Who funds GOODWILL FIRE COMPANY NO 2 ↗
  • Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES RUGBY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds The Coleman Foundation Inc ↗

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.

The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY8.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Hazel Dell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hazel Dell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 35%
  • Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
  • Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp: 11% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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 37 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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