· Private foundation
Nessel Family 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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of Nessel Family Foundation Inc’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 $10k15 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trinity Episcopal Church | $500,000 |
| Thrive Cooperative Center for Wellness | $100,000 |
| Bridgeport Hospital Foundation | $35,000 |
| Center for Family Justice | $30,000 |
| Norwalk Hospital Foundation | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Americares Foundation | $20,000 |
| IRIS Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services | $10,000 |
| Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles | $10,000 |
| Everytown | $10,000 |
| Mercy Learning Center | $10,000 |
| Norma F Pfriem Breast Care Center | $10,000 |
| Nourish Bridgeport Inc | $10,000 |
| Applied Behaviorial Rehabilitation Institute dba Home For the Brave | $10,000 |
| Prospector Theater | $7,500 |
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 (FY17–25, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
39 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $520k 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 HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +25%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +46%
- GCGrace Cottage Foundation8× · 2017–2024 · $285k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- TCThrive Cooperative Ceneter for Wellnessone grant, 2023 · $200k
- ABAbaco-Winding Bay Relief Fundone grant, 2019 · $5k
- HPHAITI PLUNGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +37%
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To provide free health care to uninsured residents of norwalk, danbury, stamford & bridgeport ct.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
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 connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Our mission is to partner with individuals, youth, and families to improve well-being, strengthen resilience, and create a brighter future. resilience is the process of effectively managing significant sources of stress or trauma. it's…
To protect women's health and reproductive choice through advocacy in connecticut.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Haitian Educational Initiatives. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
39 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. 39 of the 51 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 FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Grace Cottage Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE THRIVE COOPERATIVE CENTER FOR WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge ↗
- Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL PTSA ↗
- Who funds THE ROGER LUDLOWE MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc ↗
- Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE INC ↗
- Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MILL RIVER WETLAND COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT 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.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Cannupa Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Kreitler Foundation Inc Dba the Hobart and Sally Kreitler Foundinc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Inglesea Charitable Trust · Tauck Family Foundation · Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Estate of Benjamin B Lewis
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 Nessel Family 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.
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
- Green Village Initiative Inc — 14% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Friends of Ambler Farm Inc — 7% of income from government
- Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 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.
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