· Private foundation
Trischman Family Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k41 grants · $56k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ACEK AMERICAN CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE | $25,000 |
| THE FOUNDATION ATHLETICS | $15,000 |
| NEW POND FARM EDUCATION CENTER | $2,500 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $2,500 |
| CTNGFI | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS | $2,500 |
| EQUUS FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BRIDGE HOUSE | $2,500 |
| PUPPIES BEHIND BARS | $2,500 |
| THE BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE | $2,000 |
| FAIRFIELD MUSEUM & HISTORY CTR | $2,000 |
| COUNCIL OF CHURCHES | $2,000 |
| FOCI | $2,000 |
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 US giving — 69% of grant dollars ($586k). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 31% that went abroad ($257k) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $32k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 83% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 31% of all-years giving ($257k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
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. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +53% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
54 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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
- NPNEW POND FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +52%
- PBPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +29%
- EFEQUUS FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +137%
Funded once
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +4%
- PRPICARD RESEARCH FUNDone grant, 2023 · $5k
- GFGOLDILOCKS FARM SANCTUARYone grant, 2023 · $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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
54 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. 54 of the 113 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.
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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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Td Charitable Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Cannupa Foundation · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer 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 Trischman Family 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.
- Bridge House Inc — 88% of income from government
- Recovery Network of Programs Inc — 38% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Green Village Initiative Inc — 14% of income from government
- Neighborhood Connections Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Feeding America Tampa Bay Inc — 2% of income from government
- Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum — 1% of income from government
- Seton Hall University — 1% of income from government
- The Weston Playhouse Theater — 0% of income from government
- Fairfield Theatre Company Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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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