· Private foundation
The Littman Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $2,298 |
| WASHINGTON MONTESSORI SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| THE TAFT SCHOOL | $1,890 |
| OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY | $1,745 |
| WATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,658 |
| B'NAI ISRAEL | $1,550 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY | $1,000 |
| PRIME TIME HOUSE | $987 |
| FLANERS NATURE CENTER | $700 |
| BETHLEHEM LAND TRUST | $637 |
| OSWIT LAND TRUST | $600 |
| FARMERS TABLE | $598 |
| Individual grant recipient | $575 |
| MATTATUCK MUSEUM | $545 |
| LITCHFIELD PERFORMING ARTS | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% 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.
44 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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
- WSWATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $13k · revenue +3%
- BCBANTAM CINEMA & ARTS CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $11k · revenue +10%
- OWOLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +49%
Funded once
- KPKENT PRESENTS INCone grant, 2018 · $3k
- SPSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +10%
- JFJEWISH FEDERATION OF NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUTone grant, 2020 · $1k
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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…
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
Provide education and legal information, conferences and special activities; public relations, legislative efforts and lobbying for members.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
Conservation of lyme's natural, scenic and historic land & water resources.
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…
To educate the community as to the significance of their architectural and historic heritage through the preservation, protection, improvement, and restoration of sites and buildings in western new york that are of historic or civic…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
This entity is dedicated to providing hope and support for brain tumor patients and caregivers, while advancing public awareness of brain tumors, quality of care, and brain tumor research.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oliver Wolcott Library Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ripley Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
48 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. 48 of the 101 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 WATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds BANTAM CINEMA & ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PRIME TIME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Gaylord Hospital INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR BETHLEHEM INC ↗
- Who funds BETHLEHEM LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FIELD MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY ↗
- Who funds KENT PRESENTS INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RIPLEY INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UPWARDLY GLOBAL ↗
- Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
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 Connecticut Community Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Seherr-Thoss Charitable Trust · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · McFadden Family Foundation · H & L Family Foundation Inc · The Kestrel Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Francis J and Louisa J Oneglia 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 Littman Family 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.
- Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities Inc — 68% of income from government
- Prime Time House Inc — 50% of income from government
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Stamford Center for the Arts Inc — 18% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Litchfield Performing Arts Inc — 4% of income from government
- Washington Friends of Music Inc — 3% of income from government
- Washington Art Association Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- National Yiddish Book Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bantam Cinema & Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project 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.