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The Teddy Balkind Charitable Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20232024.

Education$88kRecreation & Sports$33kFood & Nutrition$7kPublic Benefit$4kYouth Development$3kInternational$2k
02FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$2,500
Median grant
3
States reached
$918k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST LUKES FOUNDATION INC$25,000
AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC$15,000
FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC$5,000
STOWE MOUNTAIN BIKE CLUB INC$3,000
TOWN OF WILTON$2,500
BRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC$2,500
SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STORM SPECIALHOCKEY INC$2,500
NEW CANAAN MOUNTED TROOP INC$2,000
SAVE THE CHILDREN FEDERATION INC$1,000
GRACE FARMS$1,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $5k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$127k · 7 repeat orgs$9k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
1

Total granted

$127k
$3k

Still filing today

86%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Recreation & SportsEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther

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

  • SL
    ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $85k · revenue +13%
  • AC
    AMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $24k · revenue +53%
  • FI
    FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $6k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • VM
    VERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $3k

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

04Your field

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.

1
South Kent School Corporation

South kent school is an independent, college-preparatory school for boys. since its founding, south kent has maintained ties with the episcopal church. three principles define the school: simplicity of life, self-reliance, and directness…

Education
2
Suffolk County Council Boy Scouts of America

The mission is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and scout law.

Youth Development
3
The Stony Brook School

(see schedule o)the stony brook school is an independent college preparatory school (grades 7-12) that exists to challenge young men and women to know jesus christ as lord, to love others as themselves, and to grow in knowledge and skill,…

4
Northfield Mount Hermon School

Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.

Education
5
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

6
St Andrew's Schools

To educate students in a culture of care, respect, love, and service. each child is known, challenged, understood, & empowered to strive for the highest. st. andrew's schools offers a personalized curriculum that inspires students to learn…

7
Boy Scouts of America Sagamore Council 162

The corporation shall promote, within the territory covered by the charter from time to time granted it by the boy scouts of america and in accordance with the congressional charter, bylaws, and rules and regulations of the boy scouts of…

8
St Luke's School

A coeducational episcopal day school, preschool through eighth grade, for students of all faiths.

Education
9
Shalom School

Shalom school's mission is to provide each child with an outstanding education in a nurturing environment that is academically excellent, inclusive, innovative, and inspired by jewish values and traditions.

10
Grand Canyon Council Inc Boy Scouts of America

The mission of scouting america is to prepare young people to make ethical and moral choices over their lifetimes by instilling in them the values of the scout oath and law. (continued on schedule o)programs of scouting america and grand…

11
The Peak School

The peak school seeks to ignite a passion for learning, to develop students of diverse talents and backgrounds who think critically and act with integrity, and to graduate compassionate, confident, capable students who will embrace their…

Education
12
Boy Scouts of America

The council's primary purpose is to facilitate and support the local delivery of the scouting program to youth, adhering to the principles and guidelines set forth by the national council of the boy scouts of america. the council provides…

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southern Connecticut Storm Special. 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

8 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 8 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
6/8
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 · EducationST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC+1 more — $2,500 · EducationAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC — $23,500 · OtherAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIAT…TOWN OF WILTON — $3,500 · OtherTOWN OF WILTONVERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADVOCATE INC — $2,500 · OtherVERMONT MOUNTAIN BIKE ADV…+1 more — $1,000 · OtherSOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STORM SPECIAL — $3,500 · Recreation & SportsNEW CANAAN MOUNTED TROOP INC — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsSTOWE MTB CLUB INC — $3,000 · Recreation & SportsFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $6,000 · Human ServicesSave The Children Federation Inc — $2,000 · International
Education$87,500Other$30,500Recreation & Sports$9,500Human Services$6,000International$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC — $85,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAMERICAN CAMPING ASSOCIATION INC — $23,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STORM SPECIAL — $3,500 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetNEW CANAAN MOUNTED TROOP INC — $3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSTOWE MTB CLUB INC — $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBRUNSWICK SCHOOL INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc — $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 Teddy Balkind Charitable 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 40%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 0%
  • Save the Children Federation Inc30% of income from government
  • St Luke's Foundation Inc0% of income from government
  • New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Teddy Balkind Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Teddy Balkind Charitable 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 11 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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