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The Hilbert & Shirley Hendel Foundation U/A/D 6/15/06 at a glance

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The Hilbert & Shirley Hendel Foundation U/A/D 6/15/06

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$51k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

International$105kArts & Culture$59kPhilanthropy$54kReligion$19kCommunity Improvement$11kEducation$7kAnimals$1kEmployment$1k
02FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $16k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
$2,382
Median grant
1
States reached
$735k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CT$25,000
LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM$10,000
GARDE ARTS CENTER$5,000
TEMPLE EAMNU EL$3,350
CONGREGATION BETH EL$2,382
WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL$1,500
GRAMPY'S CHARITIES$1,500
MARRAHECH INC$1,000
EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER$1,000
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.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY18–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $2k → 17%TEMPLE BETH EL: $7k → 11%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CT: $26k → 9%SARAH FOUNDATION: $1k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CT: $25k → 9%MARRAHECH INC: $1k → 12%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CT: $25k → 9%BETH JACOB SYNAGOGUE: $250 → 9%WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL: $2k → 9%WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL: $2k → 9%WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL: $1k → 9%WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL: $1k → 9%CT HUMANE SOCIETY: $1k → 9%WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL: $1k → 9%WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL: $1k → 9%LA GRUA CENTER: $500 → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CT: $25k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CT: $25k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CT: $15k → 9%JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CT: $15k → 9%LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM: $10k → 9%LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM: $10k → 9%GARDE ARTS CENTER: $7k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CT: $6k → 9%GARDE ARTS CENTER: $6k → 9%GARDE ARTS CENTER: $5k → 9%LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM: $5k → 9%COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CT: $5k → 9%GARDE ARTS CENTER: $4k → 9%CONGREGATION BETH EL: $3k → 9%GARDE ARTS CENTER: $3k → 9%CONGREGATION BETH EL: $2k → 9%EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY: $2k → 9%GRAMPY'S CHARITIES: $2k → 9%EASTERN CT SYMPHONY: $2k → 9%EASTERN CT SYMPHONY: $2k → 9%EASTERN CT SYMPHONY: $1k → 9%EASTERN CT SYMPHONY: $1k → 9%CHABAD OF EASTERN CT: $500 → 9%TEMPLE EAMNU EL: $3k → 9%EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER: $1k → 9%EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER: $1k → 9%EUGENE O'NEILL THEATER: $1k → 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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$236k · 8 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +132% since the first grant, against +52% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
8

Total granted

$236k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+132%
+52%

Still filing today

25%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationEmploymentAnimalsOther
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

  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CT
    7× · 2018–2024 · $156k
  • LA
    LYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM INC
    3× · 2018–2024 · $25k
  • GA
    Garde Arts Center Inc
    5× · 2020–2024 · $24k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • TB
    TEMPLE BETH EL
    one grant, 2018 · $7k
  • JT
    JEWISH THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2018 · $2k
  • TE
    THE EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATEDgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +38%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 19 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

JEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CT: $156,000 · OtherJEWISH FEDERATION OF EASTERN CTLYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM INC: $25,000 · OtherLYMAN ALLYN ART MUSEUM INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CT: $11,000 · Other+9 more: $27,364 · Other+9 moreGarde Arts Center Inc: $23,500 · Arts & CultureGarde Arts …THE EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED: $2,000 · Arts & CultureTHE EASTERN…WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $7,000 · EducationGRAMPY'S CHARITIES JAMES JONATHA WILLIAM CASTLE TTEES: $1,500 · PhilanthropySARAH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 · AnimalsMARRAKECH INC: $1,000 · Employment
Other$219,364Arts & Culture$25,500Education$7,000Philanthropy$2,500Animals$1,000Employment$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetGarde Arts Center Inc: $23,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED: $2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGRAMPY'S CHARITIES JAMES JONATHA WILLIAM CASTLE TTEES: $1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSARAH FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARRAKECH INC: $1,000 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 Garde Arts Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
  • Who funds THE EASTERN CONNECTICUT SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GRAMPY'S CHARITIES JAMES JONATHA WILLIAM CASTLE TTEES ↗
  • Who funds SARAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MARRAKECH 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.

Chelsea Groton Founda…Dominion Energy Chari…The Pfizer Foundation…The Bank of America C…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Chelsea Groton FoundationCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chelsea Groton Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Hilbert & Shirley Hendel Foundation U/A/D 6/15/06 funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Hilbert & Shirley Hendel Foundation U/A/D 6/15/06. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Waterford Country School Inc: 29% of income from government
  • Marrakech Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Garde Arts Center Inc: 10% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
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.
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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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 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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