· Private foundation
The Schwedel Foundation
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.
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 $10k10 grants · $19k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 50CAN | $50,000 |
| PRINCETON UNIVERSITY | $20,000 |
| NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| SHELBOURNE FARMS | $5,000 |
| BETH SHOLOM B'NAI ISRAEL | $2,500 |
| KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL | $2,000 |
| CITY YEAR INC | $1,000 |
| WOODWAY SCHOLARSHIP FUND | $500 |
| PHI BETA KAPPA SOCIETY | $135 |
| NEW CANAAN CARES | $100 |
| NEW CANAAN NATURE CENTER | $100 |
| NEW CANAAN MUSEUM & HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100 |
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 (FY17–23, $12k) land where the poverty rate runs at 6%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 0% of those 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.
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 +46% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 6 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, 30% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $57k 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
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $122k · revenue +27%
The Trustees of Princeton University6× · 2017–2025 · $76k · revenue +5%- AFACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC6× · 2017–2023 · $29k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- C(CONNCAN (CO 50CAN)one grant, 2019 · $50k
- NNCCFone grant, 2022 · $5k
- MCMISCELLANEOUS CHARITY DISTRIBUTIONS (36)one grant, 2019 · $5k
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
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.
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The Academy's mission is to enhance member career fulfillment and promote brain health for all.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse
The organization promotes high professional standards and provides governance education to boards of directors and senior corporate management.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Land Conservation Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parkinson's Body and Mind 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 48 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 71 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 NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 50CAN INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds ISRAEL GUIDE DOG CENTER FOR THE BLIND ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE OVARIAN CANCER RESEARCH FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds SHELBURNE FARMS ↗
- Who funds MAZON A Jewish Response to Hunger ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · The Debard Johnson Foundation Inc · O'Connor Family Foundation · The Morris Family Foundation · MLE Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ansonia Foundation Advisory Ac · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins 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 Schwedel 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.
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- City Year Inc — 11% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University — 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Achievement First 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.