· Private foundation
Venberg Foundation
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| URBAN IMPACT | $5,000 |
| ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| BROWN UNIVERSITY SPORTS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| VARIOUS | $2,750 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $2,500 |
| GREEK ORTHODOX HOLY TRINITY CHURCH | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LACHAT INC | $1,000 |
| FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $1,000 |
| MERCY LEARNING CENTER | $1,000 |
| FAIRFIELD THEATER COMPANY | $1,000 |
| BLACK ROCK CHURCH | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–23) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 2% of your 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.
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.
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…
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
Great oaks charter school is a public school providing high-dosage tutoring, data-driven learning strategies & extra-curricular opportunities to students in grades 6-12 to ensure success in the career or college of their choice. great oaks…
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Barnard college aims to provide the highest quality liberal arts education to promising and high-achieving young women, offering the unparalleled advantages of an outstanding residential college in partnership with a major research…
Greenwich academy is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls and young women that seeks to foster excellence. for more information see schedule o.its mission is to provide a challenging, comprehensive educational experience…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc and the most unlike its peers is Urban Impact of Black Rock Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 16 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 BROWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LACHAT INC ↗
- Who funds SERIOUSFUN CHILDREN'S NETWORK ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD THEATRE COMPANY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT 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: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Venberg 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.
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield Theatre Company 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.