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The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation at a glance

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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2025still arriving
45
Grants FY2025still arriving
5
States reached
$100k
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 2025.

Education$3.3MHealth$1.5MReligion$1.5MHuman Services$1.3MYouth Development$1.1MPhilanthropy$301kCrime & Legal$285kPublic Safety & Disaster$250kOther$0
02FY2025 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $11k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $598k
  • $50k–250k18 grants · $1.2M
$35,000
Median grant
5
States reached
$33M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES INC$100,000
ST ALOYSIUS CHURCH CORPORATION$100,000
THE CARVER INC$100,000
COVENANT SCHOOL OF BRIDGEPORT INC$80,000
CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER$75,000
KIDS IN CRISIS INC$75,000
FUTURE 5 INC$75,000
FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY$75,000
SVMC HOLDINGS INC$60,000
MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INCORPORATED$55,000
THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC$50,000
FOUNDATIONS IN EDUCATION INC$50,000
THE CARVER INC$50,000
ANCHOR ACADEMY INC$50,000
FUTURE 5 INC$50,000
02The need
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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:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%DIAPER TRAIN INC: $12k → 8%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $30k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $20k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $15k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10k → 9%STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $25k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER: $10k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER: $5k → 9%THE CARVER INC: $100k → 9%THE CARVER INC: $100k → 9%THE CARVER INC: $50k → 9%THE CARVER INC: $35k → 9%THE CARVER INC: $35k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $25k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $20k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $20k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $10k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $5k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $20k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK INC: $5k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF GREENWICH: $40k → 9%YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF GREENWICH: $20k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $50k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $50k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $50k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $20k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $15k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $15k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $10k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $10k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $175k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $10k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $5k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $10k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $5k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $5k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $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.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
MA
IA
PA
CT
CA
VA
MD
TN
NC
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 20% of The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 2.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$9.3M · 63 repeat orgs$750k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

63
22

Total granted

$9.3M
$575k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+34%

Still filing today

70%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $175k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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

  • BR
    BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $576k · revenue +51%
  • CS
    CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $455k · revenue +25%
  • TC
    THE CARVER INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $405k · revenue +132%

Funded once

  • FC
    FAIRFIELD COLLEGE PREPARATORY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • VC
    Veritas Catholic Network Incgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +71%
  • CAREER RESOURCES INC
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +1%
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

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Bridge Academy Inc

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…

Education
2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
The Children's Community Programs of Ct

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.

Health
4
Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

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5
Cold Spring School Inc

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.

Education
6
Bridgeport Hospital

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.

Health
7
Stamford Charter School for Excellence

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,…

Education
8
The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Inc

To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.

Health
9
St Vincent's College Inc

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…

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10
The Children's School

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…

Education
11
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy

Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.

Philanthropy
12
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Catherine Center for Special Needs Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

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

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
51/68
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SS CYRIL & METHODIUS CHURCH: $745,100 · OtherSS CYRIL & METHODIUS CHURCHCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC: $455,000 · OtherCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INCST ALOYSIUS CHURCH CORP: $300,000 · OtherST ALOYSIUS CHURCH CORPCATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $255,000 · OtherCATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INCCATHOLIC RELIEF SERVICES: $250,000 · OtherST THERESA SCHOOL INC: $198,321 · Other+43 more: $2,529,683 · Other+43 moreBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $576,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE…THE CARVER INC: $405,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARVER INCMCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $245,000 · Human ServicesMCGIVNEY COMMUNIT…THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $215,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR FA…YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF GREENWICH INC: $60,000 · Human Services+4 more: $72,000 · Human ServicesANCHOR ACADEMY INC: $305,500 · EducationANCHOR ACADEMY IN…MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $295,000 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CE…THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $215,000 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN LI…SHEPHERDS INC: $160,000 · EducationSHEPHERDS INCCHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL INC: $125,000 · EducationCHRISTIAN HERITAG…WILKES UNIVERSITY: $105,000 · EducationWILKES UNIVERSITYFairfield University: $100,000 · EducationFairfield Univers…COVENANT SCHOOL OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $80,000 · EducationTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $75,000 · Education+4 more: $100,500 · Education+4 moreBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $255,000 · HealthBRIDGEPORT …SVMC Holdings Inc: $210,000 · HealthSVMC Holdin…ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $210,000 · HealthST JUDE CHI…SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $150,000 · HealthSILVER HILL…CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC: $140,000 · HealthCIRCLE OF C…AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $50,000 · Health+2 more: $40,000 · HealthFoundations in Education Inc: $270,000 · PhilanthropyNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $140,500 · PhilanthropyTHE EXCHANGE CLUB OF NEW CANAAN FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON INC: $100,000 · PhilanthropyCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $50,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyFUTURE 5 INC: $220,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $100,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECT US INC: $60,000 · Youth DevelopmentNOROTON HEIGHTS DEPOT INC: $20,000 · Youth DevelopmentOPERATION SMILE INC: $105,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · International
Other$4,733,104Human Services$1,573,000Education$1,561,000Health$1,055,000Philanthropy$675,500Youth Development$400,000International$175,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $576,000 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC: $455,000 over 8y, 5.8% of budgetTHE CARVER INC: $405,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetANCHOR ACADEMY INC: $305,500 over 6y, 14% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $295,000 over 8y, 1.4% of budgetFoundations in Education Inc: $270,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $255,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetMCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $245,000 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC: $220,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $215,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $215,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetSVMC Holdings Inc: $210,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $210,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERDS INC: $160,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetSILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $145,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $140,500 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC: $140,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL INC: $125,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $110,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAROLINE HOUSE INC: $107,000 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetTHE EXCHANGE CLUB OF NEW CANAAN FOUNDATION INC: $105,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $105,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWILKES UNIVERSITY: $105,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFairfield University: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $100,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $95,000 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetHORIZONS BRIDGEPORT: $90,000 over 5y, 5.2% of budgetNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc: $85,604 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetRECOVERY COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INC: $85,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $85,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC: $82,350 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetCOVENANT SCHOOL OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $80,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHOMAS AQUINAS COLLEGE: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPIVOT MINISTRIES INC: $75,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetPATRONS OF THE TRUMBULL NATURE & ARTS CENTER: $70,000 over 3y, 20% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH RALEIGH MINISTRIES INC: $70,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOC OF GREENWICH INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCONNECT US INC: $60,000 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetVeritas Catholic Network Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S DYSLEXIA CENTERS INC: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCAREER RESOURCES INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA: $50,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $45,000 over 3y, 1.5% 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 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 NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
  • Who funds SVMC Holdings Inc ↗
  • Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL 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 THE EXCHANGE CLUB OF NEW CANAAN FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
  • Who funds WILKES UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Fairfield University ↗
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds HORIZONS BRIDGEPORT ↗
  • Who funds New Canaan Nature Center Association 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.

Fairfield County's Co…New Canaan Community …The Inner-City Founda…The Near and Far Asso…Peoples United Commun…The Scripps Family Fu…Elizabeth M Pfriem Fo…Young Mens Christian …The Pitney Bowes Foun…Ernest and Joan Trefz…Synchrony FoundationNewman's Own Foundati…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT61× affinity30 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 · 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

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 John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
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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Find your warmest path to The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 91 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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