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The R J Narkis Charitable Trust

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.

$43k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
1
Grants FY2024
3
Organizations funded FY2022
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100% of The R J Narkis Charitable Trust’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Connecticut Community Foundation, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

3
’22
0
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$43,320
Largest grant, FY2024
$43,320
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$1k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Philanthropy$43kArts & Culture$8k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mattatuck Historical Society$4,00010%
Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc$2,60010%
Seven Angels Theatre Inc$1,40010%

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.

Elisha Leavenworth Foundation IncCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The R J Narkis Charitable Trust

How much does The R J Narkis Charitable Trust give?
The R J Narkis Charitable Trust reported 1 grants totaling $43,320 in its FY2024 IRS filing.
What does The R J Narkis Charitable Trust fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2022, its largest causes are Philanthropy (84%), Arts & Culture (16%).
Who are The R J Narkis Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2022: Mattatuck Historical Society ($4k), Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc ($3k), Seven Angels Theatre Inc ($1k).
Does The R J Narkis Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The R J Narkis Charitable Trust?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc, American Savings Foundation Inc, Ion Bank Foundation Inc.
Where is The R J Narkis Charitable Trust based?
The R J Narkis Charitable Trust is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 4 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2024, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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