· Private foundation
The Jane T Muhlethaler Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Fairfield County | $15,000 |
| University of Connecticut Foundation | $15,000 |
| Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation | $15,000 |
| Wilton Library Association Inc | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| Mark Twain Library | $8,000 |
| Western Connecticut State University | $7,000 |
| Redding Social Services | $6,000 |
| Wilton Interfaith Council | $6,000 |
| Temple Israel-General Fund | $4,000 |
| Bridgeport Hospital Foundation | $4,000 |
| MOZAIC | $2,500 |
| Anti-Defamation League | $2,000 |
| Bethel Community Food Pantry | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $53k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- VNVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +35%
- FGFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +79%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $120k · revenue +79%
Funded once
- BRBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -22%
- SASocial Action Fund of Templeone grant, 2020 · $5k
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +71%
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.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
The mission of hebrew home and hospital aligns with the mission of its parent organization, hebrew health care, to provide quality services to senior adults. (see schedule o)as part of an integrated system to assist seniors in the…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
To provide and administer a comprehensive multidisciplinary, therapeutic and public health nursing program primarily to residents of the southeastern connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
To improve the health of the region and to provide healthcare services.
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.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Managing endowment funds for hebrew health care and affiliates.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breathe 4 Als Inc. 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.
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 28 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 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
33 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. 33 of the 58 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 VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON COMMUNITY ASSISTANCE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds DOROTHY DAY HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds CATHERINE VIOLET HUBBARD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PET ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Michael Vincent Sage Dragonheart Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds ALS THERAPY DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION 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: Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Carl Marks Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Fjc · Newman's Own Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Fox Family Charitable Foundation Inc · Smilow Foundation · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund
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 Jane T Muhlethaler 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.
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Als Therapy Development Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wilton Library Association Inc — 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.