· Private foundation
The Saunders Foundation Co Shipman & Goodwin
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $17k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $79k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $140k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LASELL UNIVERSITY | $75,000 |
| WADSWORTH ANTHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART | $65,000 |
| HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $33,500 |
| CONCORA | $15,000 |
| NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $10,000 |
| MUSICAL MASTERWORKS | $10,000 |
| THE MARK TWAIN HOUSE & MUSEUM | $10,000 |
| REAL ART WAYS | $5,000 |
| BUSHNELL CENTER FOR PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| PARMA MUSIC FESTIVAL | $3,000 |
| HARTFORD HOSPITAL | $1,250 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW | $1,250 |
| HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $1,250 |
| INTERVAL HOUSE | $500 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 7% of your 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.
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.
23 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- WAWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART8× · 2017–2025 · $493k · revenue +35%
- HSHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2025 · $223k · revenue +6%
- HSHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC4× · 2017–2021 · $62k · revenue +75%
Funded once
- NFNETWORK FOR NEW MUSICone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +5%
- WFWALKS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $5k
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +94%
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…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
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…
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…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
Central square theater, the oldest female-led theater organization in greater boston, is an innovator in the non-profit arts field in collaborative leadership. cst engages over 35,000 people annually through live performance, rigorous…
To make art enjoyable, inspirational and accessible to the people of new london, new england and beyond. the lyman allyn art museum preserves, enhances, displays and illuminates a collection of fine and decorative arts, held in trust for…
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.
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…
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The mission of new york city center is to be new york city's leading center for dance and musical theater. dedicated to making the arts accessible to the broadest possible audience, city center seeks to create a welcoming environment and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Public Library and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. 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 49 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 36 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 WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds LASELL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHORAL ARTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICAL MASTERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND PUBLIC MEDIA INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds THEATERWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds REAL ART WAYS INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds NETWORK FOR NEW MUSIC ↗
- Who funds WALKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ELIZABETH PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds THE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds WATKINSON SCHOOL ↗
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 · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable 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 Saunders Foundation Co Shipman & Goodwin 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.
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Real Art Ways Inc — 38% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Lasell University — 4% of income from government
- Theaterworks Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Watkinson School — 2% of income from government
- New England Public Media Inc — 0% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra 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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