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The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc

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.

$14M
Granted FY2025still arriving
44
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$10M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$21MInternational$4.6MCrime & Legal$4.4MHuman Services$3.2MPhilanthropy$2.9MYouth Development$2.7MHealth$2.2MSocial Science$2.0MOther$0
02FY2025 · 44 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k16 grants · $79k
  • $10k–50k13 grants · $265k
  • $50k–250k11 grants · $963k
  • $250k+4 grants · $13M
$20,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$51M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$10,000,000
ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY$1,500,000
BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP$1,000,000
CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC$350,000
CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION INC$155,816
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC$150,000
CLICC INC$107,500
AMERICAN JEWISH JOINT DISTRIBUTION COMMITTEE INC$100,000
BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP$100,000
DOMUS KIDS INC$100,000
PERSON TO PERSON INC$50,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC$50,000
NEW COVENANT CENTER$50,000
FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC$50,000
THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC$50,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $2.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 24% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PINE STREET INN INC: $5k → 16%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $170k → 22%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CAMP BELKNAP: $15k → 9%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $100k → 22%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CAMP BELKNAP: $15k → 9%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $70k → 22%MOSES-WEITZMAN HEALTH SYSTEM INC: $150k → 7%MISERICORDIA HOME: $5k → 14%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CAMP BELKNAP: $13k → 9%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $60k → 22%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CAMP BELKNAP: $10k → 9%SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE: $20k → 22%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CAMP BELKNAP: $10k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CAMP BELKNAP: $10k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CAMP BELKNAP: $8k → 9%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $50k → 11%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CAMP BELKNAP: $8k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION CAMP BELKNAP: $8k → 9%NEW HAVEN FAMILY ALLIANCE: $36k → 12%HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC: $100k → 17%SHATTUCK CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $15k → 16%SHATTUCK CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $15k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $5k → 16%FAMILY & CHILDRENS AGENCY INC: $4k → 9%FAIRFIELD COUNTY HOSPICE HOUSE INC: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $1.0M → 9%CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $136k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $100k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $100k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $100k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $100k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $55k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $50k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $50k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $25k → 9%CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $20k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $10k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $10k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $10k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $10k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $5k → 9%HOMEFRONT INC: $5k → 9%DOVETAIL SIP INC: $11k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $5k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER: $5k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $3k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

VT
NH
WA
IL
NY
MA
OR
SD
IN
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 12% of The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 9.6% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$36M · 88 repeat orgs$4.0M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

88 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2025, 55 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

88
66

Total granted

$36M
$3.6M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+22%

Still filing today

84%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $419k 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
Human ServicesEducationHealthFood & NutritionInternationalPhilanthropyOther

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

  • The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +24%
  • CB
    CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.8M · revenue +149%
  • BO
    BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP
    8× · 2017–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +296%

Funded once

  • TC
    TAUB CENTER FOR SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES IN ISRAEL
    one grant, 2023 · $2.0M
  • SH
    STAMFORD HOSPITAL HEALTH FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2020 · $200k
  • HF
    HEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2024 · $150k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
2
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
9
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
11
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is University of Notre Dame du Lac. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyCommunity FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesSenior Support ServicesChristian Youth CampsAffordable Housing Developm…Youth Sports ProgramsLocal History MuseumsAddiction Recovery ServicesLgbtq+ Community SupportAffordable Housing Construc…Pregnancy Support ServicesWomen & Girls Leadership De…Environmental Conservation …Food Banks and PantriesCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Youth Development CentersPublic Library OperationsIndependent K-12 SchoolsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…United Way AffiliatesJewish Community Organizati…Policy Research and AdvocacyChristian Missionary Organi…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 32 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%2%<5yr14%7%5–10yr20%19%10–20yr19%27%20–35yr13%23%35–55yr16%22%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%11%10–20yr19%15%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%48%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%2/154
the rest of the field
10%
11,857/120,606

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.

05the grantee network

148 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 148 of the 166 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
143/148
Grantees still filing
103/148
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $12,500,000 · EducationTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITYTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $3,150,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE C…+17 more — $2,131,800 · Education+17 moreTAUB CENTER FOR SOCIAL POLICY STUDIES IN ISRAEL — $2,000,000 · OtherTAUB CENTER FOR SOCIAL POLICY…DOMUS KIDS INC — $1,575,000 · OtherDOMUS KIDS INCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $667,500 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIE…ONEGOAL — $550,000 · OtherFUTURE 5 INC — $445,000 · OtherDUET INC — $465,000 · OtherCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC — $601,586 · Other+78 more — $5,336,522 · Other+78 moreThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $2,140,000 · InternationalThe America…HOPE FOR HAITI INC — $1,615,000 · InternationalHOPE FOR HA…BUILDON INC — $514,000 · InternationalBUILDON INC+5 more — $105,000 · InternationalFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $1,034,100 · PhilanthropyFUND FOR …JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $1,000,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH CO…HARLEM RBI INC — $619,000 · PhilanthropyHARLEM RB…UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $316,171 · PhilanthropyUNITED WA…FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $260,000 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD…PERSON TO PERSON INC — $152,500 · PhilanthropyOMPRAKASH INC — $137,500 · Philanthropy+6 more — $134,500 · PhilanthropyCONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION — $1,808,694 · Crime & LegalCLICC Inc — $665,000 · Crime & LegalPRISON OF PEACE — $336,000 · Crime & LegalThe Connecticut Appleseed Center for Law and Justice inc — $200,000 · Crime & Legal+3 more — $75,000 · Crime & LegalBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $1,635,000 · Human ServicesSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $420,000 · Human ServicesCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $156,000 · Human ServicesMOSES-WEITZMAN HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $150,000 · Human ServicesHEBREW FREE LOAN SOCIETY INC — $100,000 · Human ServicesYMCA CAMP BELKNAP INC — $95,000 · Human Services+12 more — $184,800 · Human ServicesCHORDOMA FOUNDATION — $1,330,000 · HealthAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC — $130,000 · HealthBEACON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC — $87,500 · Health+13 more — $204,000 · Health
Education$17,781,800Other$11,640,608International$4,374,000Philanthropy$3,653,771Crime & Legal$3,084,694Human Services$2,740,800Health$1,751,500

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY — $12,500,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $3,150,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc — $2,140,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION — $1,808,694 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $1,635,000 over 8y, 17% of budgetHOPE FOR HAITI INC — $1,615,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetDOMUS KIDS INC — $1,575,000 over 7y, 4.7% of budgetCHORDOMA FOUNDATION — $1,330,000 over 6y, 21% of budgetFUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC — $1,034,100 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNAL FUND — $1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $667,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCLICC Inc — $665,000 over 6y, 89% of budgetHARLEM RBI INC — $619,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC — $601,586 over 7y, 5.9% of budgetONEGOAL — $550,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBUILDON INC — $514,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDUET INC — $465,000 over 6y, 3.6% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC — $445,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetSPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE — $420,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST BRIDGEPORT ACADEMY INC — $400,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $367,719 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCATALYST CT INC — $354,231 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC — $350,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRISON OF PEACE — $336,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetECSU FOUNDATION INC — $331,100 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $316,171 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC — $300,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $279,625 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC — $260,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUASPIRE INC — $250,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC — $215,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetThe Connecticut Appleseed Center for Law and Justice inc — $200,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC — $191,365 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetHORIZONS BRIDGEPORT — $175,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetTHE FERGUSON LIBRARY — $157,800 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $156,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC — $152,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetKIPP FOUNDATION — $150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMOSES-WEITZMAN HEALTH SYSTEM INC — $150,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCOLLEGE OF NEW ROCHELLE — $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Notre Dame du Lac — $140,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOMPRAKASH INC — $137,500 over 4y, 6.6% of budgetAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC — $130,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetCAREER RESOURCES INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHANGE SUMMER INC — $117,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC — $112,500 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetHARBOR CAMPS INC — $110,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC — $105,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budget
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 ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds The American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee Inc ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
  • Who funds HOPE FOR HAITI INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds CHORDOMA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FUND FOR THE CITY OF NEW YORK INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNAL FUND ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CLICC Inc ↗
  • Who funds HARLEM RBI INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC ↗
  • Who funds ONEGOAL ↗
  • Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
  • Who funds DUET INC ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
  • Who funds SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST BRIDGEPORT ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds CATALYST CT INC ↗
  • Who funds CENTRAL PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds PRISON OF PEACE ↗
  • Who funds ECSU FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds TRIO NEW COLLEGE NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds THE BOTTOM LINE INC ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UASPIRE INC ↗
  • Who funds CODMAN ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds The Connecticut Appleseed Center for Law and Justice inc ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS BRIDGEPORT ↗
  • Who funds THE FERGUSON LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗

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.

Fairfield County's Co…New Canaan Community …Stamford Rotary Trust…The Near and Far Asso…The Pitney Bowes Foun…William Caspar Graust…The Scripps Family Fu…Peoples United Commun…Lone Pine Foundation …The Tudor Foundation …Webster Bank Charitab…The Tow Foundation Inc
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT65.9× affinity34 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Peoples United Community Foundation · Lone Pine Foundation Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · The Tow Foundation 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 Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 280%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • Community Partners in Action Inc — 90% of income from government
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Clicc Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Catalyst Ct Inc — 37% of income from government
  • Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
  • Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Urban Community Allianceinc — 30% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Connecticut Bar Foundation — 25% of income from government
  • Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Pine Street Inn Inc — 11% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Piers Park Sailing Center Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Codman Square Health Center Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Moses-Weitzman Health System Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Food for Free Committee Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
  • University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
  • Trio New College Network Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • The Baseball Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Women's Mentoring Network Inc — 1% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Stamford Emergency Medical Services Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
28get no government money at all
28report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 166 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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