· Private foundation
The Shulansky Foundation Inc
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JEWISH FEDERATION | $7,500 |
| THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL | $4,500 |
| HARTFORD HOSPITAL | $3,000 |
| DUNCASTER FOUNDATION INC | $2,800 |
| JEWISH COMM FDN OF GTR HARTFORD | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER | $2,000 |
| CT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CTR FDN INC | $2,000 |
| FOODSHARE INC | $1,500 |
| HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $1,500 |
| HAMILTON COLLEGE | $1,500 |
| MEMORIAL SLOANE KETTERING | $1,000 |
| CT PUBLIC TELEVISION & RADIO | $1,000 |
| HARTFORD FDN FOR PUBLIC GIV INC | $1,000 |
| WADSWORTH ATHENEUM | $1,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF S NEW ENG | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 100% of The Shulansky Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 89% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 0% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
30 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 7 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- TLTHE LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL9× · 2017–2025 · $36k · revenue +17%
- HHHartford Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $13k · revenue +92%
UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER9× · 2017–2025 · $12k · revenue +81%
Funded once
- CCCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +114%
- TETHE ENDOWMENT FUND OF BETH EL TEMPLE OF WEST HARTFORD INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +181%
- ACACCESS COLLEGE CONSULTING CORPORATIone grant, 2024 · $500
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…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hartford Foundation for Public Giving and the most unlike its peers is Northside Center for Child Development Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 18% 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 11% 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.
37 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. 37 of the 54 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 LOOMIS INSTITUTE D/B/A THE LOOMIS CHAFFEE SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DUNCASTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds RENBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ENDOWMENT FUND OF BETH EL TEMPLE OF WEST HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds BLOOMFIELD VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE FUND INC C/O DANIEL ROSENTHAL ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATKINSON SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Riseup Group 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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · The Saunders Foundation Co Shipman & Goodwin · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial 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 Shulansky Foundation Inc 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.
- Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
- Watkinson School — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Riseup Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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.