· Private foundation
The Robert and Judith Sturgis Family Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k59 grants · $80k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $138k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $175k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES & CHILDREN INC | $75,000 |
| MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| EVERSIGHT | $50,000 |
| THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY | $40,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF MAINE FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| UNDERGROUND NE | $25,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY SNOWSPORTS FOUNDATION | $20,500 |
| GIFTS OF LOVE INC | $12,880 |
| JANNUS INC | $10,000 |
| CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| UPPER VALLEY SNOWSPORTS FOUNDATION | $4,500 |
| HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC | $3,500 |
| VISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS | $3,000 |
| IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE | $3,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC | $3,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $836k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +15% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
59 repeat relationships — 45 still active in FY2025, 14 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k 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
- TVTHE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN6× · 2020–2025 · $377k · revenue +52%
- MLMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION5× · 2021–2025 · $202k · revenue +52%
- EEversight5× · 2021–2025 · $101k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CHCHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (PA) INCone grant, 2024 · $15k · revenue -3%
- FOFRIENDS OF SIMSBURY CREW INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -13%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE CHILDRENS PARK IN CHESTNUT HILLone grant, 2022 · $10k
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
To protect and preserve the Wentworth-Crescent Watershed through initiatives that enhance water quality, land conservation and community education.
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
To preserve and protect land surrounding the appalachian trail in maine for public benefit.
Sudbury valley trustees, inc. ("the organization") works to protect natural areas and farmland for wildlife and people in the 36 communities that surround the sudbury, assabet, and concord rivers. the organization cares for some of the…
To protect and restore the ecological health of forest park and marquam nature park, maintain and enhance their extensive trails networks, promote equitable access, and inspire diverse community appreciation and stewardship of these iconic…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Willamette riverkeeper's guiding principle is: "we believe a river with excellent water quality, abundant natural habitat, safe for fishing and recreation is a basic public right." for 27 years, willamette riverkeeper (wrk) has acted as…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
The vermont community foundation helps to build philanthropic resources to sustain healthy and vital vermont communities. the foundation connects and mobilizes people through giving to multiply the impact of philanthropy.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Village for Families and Children and the most unlike its peers is South Royalton Senior Center. 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) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
80 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. 80 of the 115 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 VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds MARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Eversight ↗
- Who funds THE YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF BOISE CITY IDAHO ↗
- Who funds University of Maine Foundation ↗
- Who funds UNDERGROUND NE ↗
- Who funds Women's and Children's Alliance ↗
- Who funds GIFTS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds UPPER VALLEY SNOW SPORTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIMSBURY PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH PARK INN INC ↗
- Who funds JANNUS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHESTNUT HILL COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION (PA) INC ↗
- Who funds IDAHO FOODBANK WAREHOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SIMSBURY CREW INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TREES FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds K9S FOR WARRIORS INC ↗
- Who funds SIMSBURY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE ACTUARIAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LAKE SUNAPEE PROTECTIVE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CALIFORNIA FIRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH ROYALTON SENIOR CENTER ↗
- Who funds VISIONS FOR CREATIVE HOUSING SOLUTIONS ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF PASTORIUS PARK IN ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE FRIENDS OF THE WISSAHICKON INC ↗
- Who funds FOLLOW YOUR ART COMMUNITY STUDIOS INC ↗
- Who funds DAVE THOMAS FOUNDATION FOR ADOPTION ↗
- Who funds AUSBON SARGENT LAND PRESERVATION TRUST ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Laura Moore Cunningham Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Robert and Judith Sturgis Family 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.
- Farmington River Watershed Association Inc — 69% of income from government
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- South Park Inn Inc — 29% of income from government
- Abc House Inc — 25% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Follow Your Art Community Studios Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc — 2% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors 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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