· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| NEW MILFORD HIGH SCHOOL | $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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CT | $1,000 |
| HUNT HILL FARM TRUST | $1,000 |
| RENEWAL HOUSE SHELTER OF THE CROSS | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +50% since the first grant, against +37% for those 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
How this is measured
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 +37%
- DHDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Incone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -12%
- TNTHEATREWORKS NEW MILFORDone grant, 2019 · $1k · revenue -5%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- 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 AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds KENT COMMUNITY FUND 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lawrence J Portell and Natalie D Portell Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lawrence J Portell and Natalie D Portell Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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