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The Joseph P and Colleen M Brandon Family 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.

$387k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0188% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.

Education$196kFood & Nutrition$103kArts & Culture$78kHealth$36kHousing & Shelter$35kPublic Benefit$33kCrime & Legal$8kInternational$6kOther$0
02FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k10 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k10 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Southport School Inc$100,000
Shelburne Museum Incorporated$50,000
Shelburne Farms$50,000
Connecticut Foodshare$25,000
Homes for the Brave$25,000
The Yankee Institute for Public Policy Studies Inc$25,000
Champlain College Inc$15,000
Nuvance Health Foundation (FBO Norwalk Hospital)$10,000
Williamson College of the Trades$10,000
Hillsdale College$10,000
Yale New Haven Hospital$10,000
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc$10,000
The Forman School Inc$10,000
University of Vermont Medical Center Inc$5,000
Vermont Commons School$5,000
02Your edge
repeat funding

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$390k · 10 repeat orgs$100k to everyone else

10 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
3

Total granted

$390k
$12k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+84%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’24
EducationHealthArts & CultureEnvironmentHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • TS
    THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $125k · revenue +42%
  • SHELBURNE FARMS
    2× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +62%
  • SM
    SHELBURNE MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $75k · revenue +161%

Funded once

  • AB
    APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTITgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +36%
  • LP
    LIBERATION PROGRAMS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $1k · revenue +84%
  • TC
    The CT Mirror, The Connecticut Mirror
    one grant, 2021 · $500

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

03Your field

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.

1
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
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
4
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
Albright College

As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.

Education
7
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
8
Fairleigh Dickinson University

Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…

Education
9
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Dickinson College

Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship

Education
11
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
12
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Canaan Country School Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Thirty West Forty Fourth Street Foundation. 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 47 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%5%<5yr14%5%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%10%20–35yr13%40%35–55yr16%40%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%5%<5yr14%0%5–10yr20%0%10–20yr19%3%20–35yr13%61%35–55yr16%31%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/20
the rest of the field
10%
11,858/120,740

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.

03the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/19
Grantees still filing
11/19
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC — $125,000 · OtherTHE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INCYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $32,500 · OtherYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICYCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $27,500 · OtherCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCHomes for the Brave — $25,000 · OtherHomes for the BraveFORMAN SCHOOL INC — $15,000 · OtherFORMAN SCHOOL INCNuvance Health Foundation (FBO Norwalk Hospital) — $10,000 · Other+5 more — $11,500 · OtherSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $75,000 · Arts & CultureSHELBURNE MUSEUM …+1 more — $2,000 · Arts & CultureSHELBURNE FARMS — $75,000 · EnvironmentSHELBURNE FARMSCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $20,000 · EducationCHAMPLAIN CO…HILLSDALE COLLEGE — $10,000 · EducationHILLSDALE CO…WILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES — $10,000 · EducationWILLIAMSON C…MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $6,000 · EducationMERCY LEARNI…THE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $5,000 · EducationTHE NEW CANA…VERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL — $5,000 · EducationVERMONT COMM…BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 · HealthAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT — $10,000 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthFAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS FOUNDATION — $7,500 · Human ServicesAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 · International
Other$246,500Arts & Culture$77,000Environment$75,000Education$56,000Health$31,000Human Services$7,500International$6,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC — $125,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS — $75,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHELBURNE MUSEUM INC — $75,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — $32,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $27,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCHAMPLAIN COLLEGE INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHILLSDALE COLLEGE — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILLIAMSON COLLEGE OF THE TRADES — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILIES AGAINST MANDATORY MINIMUMS FOUNDATION — $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT COMMONS SCHOOL — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHIRTY WEST FORTY FOURTH STREET FOUNDATION — $2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Ayco Charitable F…Ge Aerospace Foundati…American Endowment Fo…National Philanthropi…Morgan Stanley Global…The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…Donor Advised Charita…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT15.4× affinity5 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 · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 26 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $546k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2024, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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the interactive map of money crossing state lines