· Private foundation
The Kaman 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
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $344k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY | $100,000 |
| OUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC | $95,000 |
| AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR | $60,000 |
| HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $44,778 |
| FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $30,000 |
| OVERLAND MOUNTAIN BIKE ASSOCIATION | $29,350 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD - HELEN KAMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD - LAUREL KAMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,000 |
| ART DIVISION | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD - CHARLES KAMAN SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $25,000 |
| SANTA FE MUSIC COLLECTIVE | $25,000 |
| STEVE SUTTON MEMORIAL CHARITY | $20,000 |
| TEXAS WOMEN SONGWRITERS FESTIVAL | $20,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $145k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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
- EPELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $600k · revenue +4%
- OPOUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $500k · revenue +87%
- ACAUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY5× · 2020–2025 · $300k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- VSVAN STEPHENSON MEM CANCER REone grant, 2024 · $50k
- FCFORT COLLINS MUSIC ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $19k
- FSFERNANDINA SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $15k
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 washington conservatory of music provides exceptional musical learning & listening experiences for students and the community. its vision is a community inspired and informed by the experience of music.
To be a sustainable musical institution that brings the intimate experience of a world-class chamber orchestra performance to the greater philadelphia area,enriching the musical life of the city and region by the integrity and excellence…
To inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts
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…
To promote the music of living composers through concerts, educational programs and by fostering new works by composers at all levels of development.
Concert Artists Guild's mission is to discover, nurture, and promote young musicians and help them build sustainable careers.
Trinity academy for the performing arts utilizes an interdisciplinary arts-integrated program to prepare our artist-scholars for collegiate and professional success.
A center for exhibitions, information, and documentation about living artists since 1977, which continues to be a place of experimentation and a hub of new art and new ideas.
To enrich lives and community through great music.
Manhattan school of music is deeply committed to excellence in education, performance, and creative activity; to the humanity of the school's environment; and to the cultural enrichment of the larger community. a premiere international…
To provide space for artists to work and to engage community through arts education, exhibitions of contemporary art, and cultural events.
California college of the arts educates students to shape culture and society through the practice and critical study of art, architecture, design, and writing. benefitting from its san francisco bay area location, the college prepares…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Austin Classical Guitar Society and the most unlike its peers is Martin Guitar Charitable Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 38 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 ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds OUTPOST PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AUSTIN CLASSICAL GUITAR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT DRAFT HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Santa Fe Music Collective Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds Overland Mountain Bike Association ↗
- Who funds DRIPPING SPRINGS VISITORS BUREAU ↗
- Who funds SoLA Contemporary ↗
- Who funds Art Division ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds FERNANDINA SONGWRITERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MARTIN GUITAR CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON TRINITY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CENTER FOR CIRCUS ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds CREATE NOW INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURANT 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: The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The John G Martin Foundation · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc
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 Kaman 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.
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- New England Center for Circus Arts Inc — 1% 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.