· Private foundation
The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation
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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $598k
- $50k–250k18 grants · $1.2M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CARVER INC | $100,000 |
| ST ALOYSIUS CHURCH CORPORATION | $100,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES INC | $100,000 |
| COVENANT SCHOOL OF BRIDGEPORT INC | $80,000 |
| CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER | $75,000 |
| FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| KIDS IN CRISIS INC | $75,000 |
| FUTURE 5 INC | $75,000 |
| SVMC HOLDINGS INC | $60,000 |
| MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INCORPORATED | $55,000 |
| FUTURE 5 INC | $50,000 |
| THE CARVER INC | $50,000 |
| THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC | $50,000 |
| FOUNDATIONS IN EDUCATION INC | $50,000 |
| ANCHOR ACADEMY INC | $50,000 |
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 (FY18–25, $1.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation’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.
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.
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.
63 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2025, 27 since wound down; 4 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k 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
- BRBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $576k · revenue +51%
- CSCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $455k · revenue +25%
- TCTHE CARVER INC8× · 2018–2025 · $405k · revenue +132%
Funded once
- FCFAIRFIELD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $100k
CAREER RESOURCES INCone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +1%- VCVeritas Catholic Network Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · 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.
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
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 stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
Rooted in the loving ministry of Jesus as healer, we commit ourselves to serving all persons with special attention to those who are poor and vulnerable. Our Catholic health ministry is dedicated to spiritually-centered, holistic care…
An independent, nonprofit school serving the lower fairfield county area of connecticut for children ages three to eight, and providing an environment that fosters in children the joy of learning through the use of innovative materials and…
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stratford Education 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.
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 47 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 2% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 91 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 RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds ANCHOR ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Foundations in Education Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds SVMC Holdings Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS INC ↗
- Who funds SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EXCHANGE CLUB OF NEW CANAAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS BRIDGEPORT ↗
- Who funds New Canaan Nature Center Association Inc ↗
- Who funds RECOVERY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT 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 · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Elizabeth M Pfriem Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation
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 John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation 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.
- Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Discovery Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Sterling House Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Patrons of the Trumbull Nature & Arts Center — 6% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mcgivney Community Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc — 1% of income from government
- Svmc Holdings Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Silver Hill Hospital 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.
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