· Private foundation
The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of THE ROBERT & MARGARET PATRICELLI FAMILY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k36 grants · $76k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $483k
- $250k+1 grant · $510k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $510,000 |
| HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $206,255 |
| HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION & PEACE | $102,000 |
| HARTFORD'S GOT TALENT | $75,000 |
| HARTFORD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE | $50,000 |
| HARTFORD PROMISE | $50,000 |
| CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC (CT MIRROR) | $25,000 |
| THE BUSHNELL | $25,000 |
| OCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES (MAPS) | $20,000 |
| GOODWIN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| ANIMAL ADOPTION CENTER INC | $7,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $7,500 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW NEW ENGLAND | $7,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $17k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% 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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
68 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 41 since wound down; 21 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k 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
- WUWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY5× · 2020–2025 · $680k · revenue +36%
- HPHARTFORD PROMISE INC4× · 2020–2025 · $339k · revenue +258%
- HPHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY6× · 2020–2025 · $279k · revenue +76%
Funded once
- HPHARTFORD PUBLIC FOR GIVING FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $4.7M
- EPELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $600k · revenue +106% · 53% of their budget
- GAGRAN ANSE HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $25k
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.
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…
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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…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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.
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
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…
Hartford Preservation Alliance's primary mission is to preserve and revitalize Hartford's unique architectural heritage and neighborhood character.
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 preserve historically significant properties in the hartford community, purchasing same, if possible, and maintaining them as historical landmarks.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill-Stead Museum and the most unlike its peers is Simsbury Free Library. 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 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.8% 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.
124 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. 124 of the 183 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 WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD'S GOT TALENTINC ↗
- Who funds THE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL ↗
- Who funds SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Animal Adoption Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds The Hartford Chamber of Commerce Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds YANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds MULTIDISCIPLINARY ASSOCIATION FOR PSYCHEDELIC STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE HOUSE FELLOWS FOUNDATION AND ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds RUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds Ron Foley Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds MeWe International Inc ↗
- Who funds JAYLEN D BERRY FOUNDATION INC ↗
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 · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · John and Kelly Hartman 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 & Margaret Patricelli 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.
- Hartford Communities That Care Inc — 95% of income from government
- Farmington River Watershed Association Inc — 69% of income from government
- Florida Rural Water Association Inc — 59% of income from government
- Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc — 44% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- Community Health Services Inc — 30% of income from government
- Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated — 28% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Inc — 18% 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
- Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
- Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
- Community First School Inc — 9% of income from government
- Madison Hose Co 1 Inc P O Box 573 — 7% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Ocean Exploration Trust Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shatterproof a Nonprofit Corporation — 2% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Watkinson School — 2% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- Hartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History — 1% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Goucher College — 0% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Rutgers University Foundation — 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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