· Private foundation
The Lawrence J Portell and Natalie D Portell 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 41% of THE LAWRENCE J PORTELL AND NATALIE D PORTELL FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $22k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| NEW MILFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| NEW MILFORD HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC | $2,000 |
| NEW MILFORD COMMUNITY AMBULANCE | $1,500 |
| HUNT HILL FARM TRUST | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CT | $1,000 |
| RENEWAL HOUSE SHELTER OF THE CROSS | $500 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +50% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
20 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $261k · revenue +79%
- NMNEW MILFORD COMMUNITY AMBULANCE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $9k · revenue +153%
- RHRENEWAL HOUSE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +55%
Funded once
- TDThe Danbury Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $18k · revenue +31%
- DHDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -18%
- TNTHEATREWORKS NEW MILFORDone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -5%
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 mission of norwalk hospital foundation is to raise funds, reinvest and administer these funds and make distributions to norwalk hospital and other not-for-profit norwalk hospital affiliates.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Volunteer fire department that responds to active structure fires, auto accidents and medical emergencies.
To effectively and efficiently provide high quality healthcare services.
Volunteer fire department
Kent county memorial hospital is devoted to continually improving the health and well-being of the people and communities we serve, offering our essential services without regard for ability to pay. please refer to schedule o for the…
The Noroton Heights Fire Department, Incorporated provides fire and other emergency response services to its district within the Town of Darien, Connecticut, as well as providing mutual aid coverage to the other fire departments in town…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Milford Community Ambulance Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hunt Hill Farm Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 25 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 THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Danbury Hospital ↗
- Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW MILFORD COMMUNITY AMBULANCE INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HUNT HILL FARM TRUST ↗
- Who funds CAMELLAS CUPBOARD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds KENT COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS TENNIS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY CULINARY SCHOOL OF NW CT LLC ↗
- Who funds THEATREWORKS NEW MILFORD ↗
- Who funds PRATT NATURE CENTER 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: Persbacker Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Jean Widmark and Richard Widmark Foundation Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation · Kermit and Patricia Adler Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Lawrence J Portell and Natalie D Portell 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.
- After School Arts Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Danbury Hospital — 1% of income from government
- Pratt Nature Center 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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