· Private foundation
The Pitney Bowes Foundation
Its FY2023 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k102 grants · $448k
- $10k–50k37 grants · $728k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $641k
- $250k+1 grant · $475k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $475,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $129,000 |
| BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND | $110,426 |
| SOUNDWATERS INC | $100,000 |
| CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTERS | $76,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WES | $75,575 |
| MIND RESEARCH INSTITUTE | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| GOVERNORS PARTNERSHIP TO PROT | $45,000 |
| READ TO A CHILD INC | $42,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $41,750 |
| REACH OUT AND READ INC | $37,500 |
| BUILDON INC | $37,000 |
| READING IS FUNDAMENTAL | $35,000 |
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 (FY17–23, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 38% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 44% of The Pitney Bowes Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 41% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 39% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +35% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
217 repeat relationships — 102 still active in FY2023, 115 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $275k 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
- SISOUNDWATERS INC7× · 2017–2023 · $372k · revenue +61%
- CLCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC3× · 2017–2022 · $294k · revenue +22%
READ TO A CHILD INC7× · 2017–2023 · $293k · revenue +33%
Funded once
- GRGRAND RAPIDS CHILDREN'S MUSEUMgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue +355%
- BPBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue +16%
- JAJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATERone grant, 2018 · $40k
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.
Springboard collaborative combines targeted student instruction with parent training in an incentivized system that closes the literacy gap, by transferring the summer from a barrier into a springboard for financially disadvantaged…
United way of greater new haven brings people and organizations together to create solutions to our region's most pressing challenges in the areas of education, health, and financial stability, grounded in racial and social justice. we…
United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…
With love and respect, we partner with opportunity youth to build the skillsets and mindsets that lead to lifelong learning, livelihood, and leadership. youthbuild strives to create a world where all young people are seen for their…
Readyct works to advance academic excellence and career-connected learning for all public school students in connecticut through collaboration with business, civic, and education leaders.
Utah's promise (up) is committed to 100% of kids and families thriving. we unify leaders, partners, communities and systems to achieve that promise.
Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…
Achieve now is a philadelphia-based social justice organization that sees literacy as a mechanism to effect social change. our mission is to provide k-2 school children in greater philadelphia with high-quality, culturally competent…
Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.
In fiscal year 2025, the agency operated an americorps maker fellowship, placing 7 americorps vista members at 6 different education focused organizations in ca, ma, and ny. americorps members worked on capacity building projects to expand…
The food bank for central & northeast missouri is a regional disaster and hunger relief network that acquires and distributes millions of meals each year to help neighbors get the food they need to thrive. (continued on schedule o)the…
The opportunity network ignites the drive, curiosity, and agency of underrepresented students on their paths to and through college and into thriving careers, powered by our commitment to access and community.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mile High United Way Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mary T and James J Hill Library Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
318 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. 318 of the 467 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 Global Impact ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO A CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds READING IS FUNDAMENTAL INC ↗
- Who funds REACH OUT AND READ INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
- Who funds THE FERGUSON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS NATIONAL STUDENT ENRICHMENT PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds PROLITERACY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds SUCCESS FOR ALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE BLACKBAUD GIVING FUND ↗
- Who funds MIND EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds GOVERNOR'S PARTNERSHIP TO PROTECT CONNECTICUT'S WORKFORCE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER ATLANTA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Communities in Schools of Atlanta Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDCAREGROUP ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Impact 100 Fairfield County · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Tudor 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 Pitney Bowes Foundation 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.
- Mill River Collaborative Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Workplace Inc — 100% of income from government
- Ari of Connecticut Inc — 89% of income from government
- Team Inc — 84% of income from government
- Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc — 81% of income from government
- Laurel House Inc — 68% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Communities Inc — 57% of income from government
- Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc — 47% of income from government
- Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc — 44% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 36% of income from government
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% of income from government
- Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- America Scores New England Dba Boston Scores — 30% of income from government
- Danbury Youth Services — 29% of income from government
- Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Stamford Center for the Arts Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- The Discovery Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Green Village Initiative Inc — 14% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- City Lights & Company — 9% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Valley Shakespeare Festival — 4% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
- Intempo Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Women's Mentoring Network Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 1% of income from government
- The Riseup Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Uaspire Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation 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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