· Private foundation
Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust
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 $10k16 grants · $54k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| WARM CENTER | $10,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| UNION CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| YMCA - MYSTIC BRANCH | $5,000 |
| MAINE ISLAND TRAIL ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| BRASS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| MAINE COAST HERITAGE TRUST | $5,000 |
| TURNING POINT USA | $5,000 |
| THE MAURICE C LA GRUA CENTER | $5,000 |
| MAINE SEACOAST MISSION | $3,000 |
| EPOCH TIMES ASSOCIATION INC | $3,000 |
| JUDICIAL WATCH | $2,000 |
| STONINGTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $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 human-services grants (FY17–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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 +38% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 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, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $36k 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
Maine Island Trail Association9× · 2017–2025 · $47k · revenue +65%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +106%- TMTHE MAURICE C LA GRUA CENTER8× · 2018–2025 · $39k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- RCRiverflow Community Incone grant, 2024 · $10k
- RARAGNOT AMATEUR SAILING ASSOCIATION OF TEXASone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue -90%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $4k
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 nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
To conserve lands with significant ecological or cultural resources and manage them in a sustainable way for public benefit.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
To preserve and protect westport massachusetts natural resources for people and nature, and to educate the public about the wise use of natural resources.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
Conservation of lyme's natural, scenic and historic land & water resources.
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
To connect people to the past, present, and future of Maine's waterways and their global reach.
Founded in 1966, Aspetuck Land Trust is a non-profit membership ogranization whose mission is to protect land forever and connect people to the natural world.
To protect, preserve and interpret the martime heritage of the lower Merrimack Valley region and how it relates to American History
Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Native Plant Trust Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ragnot Amateur Sailing Association of Texas. 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 38 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) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
34 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. 34 of the 48 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 STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds Maine Island Trail Association ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds THE MAURICE C LA GRUA CENTER ↗
- Who funds DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE OCEAN COMMUNITY UNITED THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds THE EPOCH TIMES ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds STONINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUDICIAL WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds BRASS ↗
- Who funds WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC ↗
- Who funds Riverflow Community Inc ↗
- Who funds Maine Seacoast Mission ↗
- Who funds YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds RAGNOT AMATEUR SAILING ASSOCIATION OF TEXAS ↗
- Who funds LifeFlight Foundation ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds STONINGTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community of Hope Incorporated ↗
- Who funds STONINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds TURNING POINT USA INC ↗
- Who funds NATIVE PLANT TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds MUDRATZ INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds GREATER MADISON CONSERVATION SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc ↗
- Who funds HONEYBEE HOLLOW CHILDRENS CENTER ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE TO PROTECT NANTUCKET SOUND 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: Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Dxn Foundation · Castle Family Foundation · The Michael & Dudley Delbalso Charitable Trust · Royce Family Fund Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Fromson Foundation Inc · The James P Verhalen Family Fdn Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation
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 Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust 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.
- Riverflow Community Inc — 43% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Native Plant Trust Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Stonington Free Library Inc — 2% of income from government
- Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc — 2% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 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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