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The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation at a glance

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The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$1.2M
Granted FY2025still arriving
48
Grants FY2025still arriving
10
States reached
$510k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$4.8MEducation$1.9MArts & Culture$1.4MPublic Benefit$206kScience & Tech$184kFood & Nutrition$156kHealth$125kYouth Development$69kOther$0
02FY2025 · 48 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k36 grants · $76k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $130k
  • $50k–250k5 grants · $483k
  • $250k+1 grant · $510k
$2,500
Median grant
10
States reached
$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%FOOD FIRST: $1k → 20%SIMPLY SMILES: $500 → 9%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $5k → 11%HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER: $500 → 11%FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%JAYLEN D BERRY FOUNDATION INC: $5k → 11%JAYLEN D BERRY FOUNDATION INC: $3k → 11%JALYEN D BERRY FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%JAYLEN D BERRY FOUNDATION INC: $1k → 11%JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $250 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NH
WA
WI
NY
MA
WY
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NM
DC
GA
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.4M · 68 repeat orgs$5.7M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

68
89

Total granted

$3.4M
$5.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+0%

Still filing today

71%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $232k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHealthEnvironmentInternationalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WU
    WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $680k · revenue +36%
  • HP
    HARTFORD PROMISE INC
    4× · 2020–2025 · $339k · revenue +258%
  • HP
    HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY
    6× · 2020–2025 · $279k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • HP
    HARTFORD PUBLIC FOR GIVING FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · $4.7M
  • EP
    ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $600k · revenue +106% · 53% of their budget
  • GA
    GRAN ANSE HEALTH
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…

Philanthropy
3
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
4
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
5
Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals
6
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy

Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.

Philanthropy
7
Wheaton College

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…

Education
8
Hartford Preservation Alliance Inc

Hartford Preservation Alliance's primary mission is to preserve and revitalize Hartford's unique architectural heritage and neighborhood character.

Arts & Culture
9
Saint Anselm College

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…

Education
10
Hartford Historic Preservation Foundation Inc

To preserve historically significant properties in the hartford community, purchasing same, if possible, and maintaining them as historical landmarks.

Philanthropy
11
Wethersfield Historical Society

The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
12
Connecticut College

Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill-Stead Museum; 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.
04the grantee network

124 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
122/124
Grantees still filing
80/124
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HARTFORD PUBLIC FOR GIVING FOUNDATION: $4,702,030 · OtherHARTFORD PUBLIC FOR GIVING FOUNDATION+120 more: $1,065,238 · Other+120 moreWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $679,870 · EducationWESLEYAN UNIVERSITYHARTFORD PROMISE INC: $339,333 · EducationHARTFORD PROMISE INCHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $279,119 · EducationHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRA…SHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $207,500 · EducationSHINING HOPE FOR COMM…HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE: $102,000 · EducationHARTFORD INTERNATIONA…+19 more: $91,411 · Education+19 moreELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $600,000 · Recreation & Sports+3 more: $5,500 · Recreation & SportsTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL: $247,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $102,500 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $75,500 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $47,600 · Arts & CultureFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $32,500 · Arts & Culture+14 more: $17,830 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD'S GOT TALENTINC: $265,350 · Community Improvement+1 more: $2,250 · Community ImprovementOCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INC: $175,000 · Environment+9 more: $6,103 · EnvironmentTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $50,375 · Youth DevelopmentMeWe International Inc: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $2,500 · Youth Development
Other$5,767,268Education$1,699,233Recreation & Sports$605,500Arts & Culture$522,930Community Improvement$267,600Environment$181,103Youth Development$62,875

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWESLEYAN UNIVERSITY: $679,870 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $600,000 over 1y, 53% of budgetHARTFORD PROMISE INC: $339,333 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $279,119 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHARTFORD'S GOT TALENTINC: $265,350 over 5y, 36% of budgetTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL: $247,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetSHINING HOPE FOR COMMUNITIES INC: $207,500 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetOCEAN EXPLORATION TRUST INC: $175,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetVASSAR COLLEGE: $105,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $102,500 over 4y, 2.4% of budgetHARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE: $102,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $75,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAnimal Adoption Center Inc: $52,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $50,375 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC: $47,600 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $32,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYANKEE INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC POLICY: $28,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWHITE HOUSE FELLOWS FOUNDATION AND ASSOCIATION: $16,500 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetRUTGERS UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC: $14,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRon Foley Foundation Inc: $13,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetHartford Hospital: $12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMeWe International Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetJAYLEN D BERRY FOUNDATION INC: $9,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetBallet Theatre Company: $8,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetCARING FOR MILITARY FAMILIES THE ELIZABETH DOLE FOUNDATION: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST SCHOOL INC: $7,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetHARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING CENTER INC: $5,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $5,111 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOVERNOR'S PARTNERSHIP TO PROTECT CONNECTICUT'S WORKFORCE INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY ACADEMY HARTFORD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGOUCHER COLLEGE: $4,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $4,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBUSHNELL PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHEATERWORKS INC: $4,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT FORUM INC: $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGRANDANSE HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION: $2,500 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetWORLD AFFAIRS COUNCILS OF AMERICA: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetASPEN CAMP OF THE DEAF & HARD OF HEARING: $2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVIETNAM FOUNDATION: $2,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSHATTERPROOF A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Communities That Care Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetREAL ART WAYS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEDUCATION FOR ALL CHILDREN: $2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

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.

Hartford Foundation f…The William and Alice…Farmington Bank Commu…Aetna Foundation IncJ Walton Bissell Foun…Rockville Bank Commun…The Zachs Family Foun…Connecticut Humanitie…The Maximilian E and …Cheryl Chase & Stuart…Sbm Charitable Founda…John and Kelly Hartma…
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT87.3× affinity48 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 370%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
37get no government money at all
18report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 183 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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