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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.

$96k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it funds
0183% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$255kEducation$145kEnvironment$33kHuman Services$26kReligion$22kPhilanthropy$20kRecreation & Sports$18kArts & Culture$17kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k41 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $40k
$1,808
Median grant
9
States reached
$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ACEK AMERICAN CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE$25,000
THE FOUNDATION ATHLETICS$15,000
CTNGFI$2,500
NEW POND FARM EDUCATION CENTER$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
PUPPIES BEHIND BARS$2,500
TUNNEL TO TOWERS$2,500
BRIDGE HOUSE$2,500
EQUUS FOUNDATION$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
TURNING POINT USA$2,500
COUNCIL OF CHURCHES$2,000
RIDGEBURYRIDERS$2,000
SAINT CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS$2,000
THALASSEMIA$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $3k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $2k → 17%DANIEL TRUST FOUNDATION: $4k → 9%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $1k → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $500 → 17%PUPPIES BEHIND BARS: $500 → 17%BRIDGE HOUSE: $8k → 12%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT: $100 → 14%BRIDGE HOUSE: $3k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $2k → 12%BRIDGE HOUSE: $1k → 12%MODEST NEEDS FOUNDATION: $3k → 17%SIMPLY SMILES: $500 → 9%SIMPLY SMILES: $500 → 9%SIMPLY SMILES: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

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NH
MN
WI
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OH
PA
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CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
TN
DC
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Beyond the US: 31% of all-years giving ($257k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

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Canada$257k · 13 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$761k · 54 repeat orgs$78k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +24% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

54
50

Total granted

$761k
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+24%

Still filing today

50%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationArts & CultureEnvironmentFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • NP
    NEW POND FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +52%
  • PB
    PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC
    7× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +29%
  • EF
    EQUUS FOUNDATION INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $9k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +4%
  • SH
    SETON HALL UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +25%
  • GF
    GOLDILOCKS FARM SANCTUARY
    one grant, 2023 · $5k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Mass General Brigham Health Plan Inc

Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.

Health
2
Samuel Waxman Cancer Research Foundation

The samuel waxman cancer research foundation (the "foundation") funds innovative research to bring faster cures to patients. in addition to supporting ongoing collaborative research in specific cancers, our scientists are investigating the…

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3
University of New Haven

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…

Education
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
The Bridgespan Group Inc

Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.

Community Improvement
6
City of Hope

City of Hope's mission is to make hope a reality for all touched by cancer and diabetes. PLEASE SEE SCHEDULE O FOR A CONTINUATION OF OUR MISSION

Health
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
8
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
9
Connecticut Brain Tumor Alliance Inc

This entity is dedicated to providing hope and support for brain tumor patients and caregivers, while advancing public awareness of brain tumors, quality of care, and brain tumor research.

Health
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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.

Education
11
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
12
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
45/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $198,125 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLIFEBRIDGE: $188,945 · OtherLIFEBRIDGEACEK AMERICAN CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGE: $60,000 · OtherACEK AMERICAN CENTER FOR EDUCATION AND KNOWLEDGEMCGILL UNIVERSITY: $58,904 · OtherMCGILL UNIVERSITY+77 more: $211,571 · Other+77 moreBRIDGE HOUSE INC: $13,000 · Human ServicesPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesTHE DANIEL TRUST FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 · Human ServicesMODEST NEEDS FOUNDATION: $3,000 · Human ServicesSIMPLY SMILES INC: $1,500 · Human Services+1 more: $100 · Human ServicesNEW POND FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC: $13,610 · EnvironmentBOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT: $9,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND: $8,000 · EnvironmentTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $8,500 · EducationGRACE ACADEMY: $1,000 · Education+1 more: $100 · EducationFAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM: $8,600 · Arts & CultureFAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC: $7,000 · Arts & CultureWHYHUNGER INC: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER: $750 · Arts & CultureTHE SUSIE FOUNDATION INC: $3,550 · HealthRIDGEBURY RIDERS INC: $3,329 · HealthRECOVERY NETWORK OF PROGRAMS INC: $2,235 · HealthNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC: $1,750 · HealthINSPIREINC: $1,450 · HealthST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,204 · HealthConnecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge: $1,050 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $600 · Health+5 more: $1,450 · HealthEQUUS FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 · Animals+1 more: $250 · Animals
Other$717,545Human Services$32,100Environment$30,610Education$19,600Arts & Culture$17,350Health$16,618Animals$9,250

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW POND FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC: $13,610 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE INC: $13,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC: $10,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEQUUS FOUNDATION INC: $9,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetBOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT: $9,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM: $8,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY: $8,100 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $8,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE: $5,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSETON HALL UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC: $4,138 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DANIEL TRUST FOUNDATION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $3,768 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SUSIE FOUNDATION INC: $3,550 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $3,526 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRIDGEBURY RIDERS INC: $3,329 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetA&B IT'S ALL GOOD INC DBA SWEET P BAKERY: $2,550 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetPAYPAL CHARITABLE GIVING FUND: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRECOVERY NETWORK OF PROGRAMS INC: $2,235 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $1,808 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD CONNECTIONS INC: $1,750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSIMPLY SMILES INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINSPIREINC: $1,450 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $1,204 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOOLEY'S ANEMIA FOUNDATION: $1,180 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge: $1,050 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWHYHUNGER INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBart J Ruggiere Adaptive Sports Center Inc: $1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAmirah Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRACE ACADEMY: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY PROMISE OF BERGEN COUNTY: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WESTON PLAYHOUSE THEATER: $750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAROLINE HOUSE INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACKS CORNER FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOOPS AND DREAMS FOUNDATION INC: $500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK ROAD RUNNERS INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThomas Merton Center Inc: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds NEW POND FARM EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PUPPIES BEHIND BARS INC ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EQUUS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BOTANICAL GARDEN OF THE PIEDMONT ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
  • Who funds FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE PHILANTHROPY ROUNDTABLE ↗
  • Who funds SETON HALL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds FEEDING AMERICA TAMPA BAY INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds THE DANIEL TRUST FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds PAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE SUSIE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds RIDGEBURY RIDERS INC ↗
  • Who funds MODEST NEEDS FOUNDATION ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT26.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Trischman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Trischman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 160%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
16get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Trischman Family Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 113 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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