· Private foundation
Wayne Eisenbaum Charitable Foundati
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $20,000 |
| FISH | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $20,000 |
| PRIME TIME HOUSE INC | $20,000 |
| CT FOODSHARE | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $20,000 |
| HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| OPERATION FUEL INC | $20,000 |
| HOUSE OF BREAD | $20,000 |
| SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS | $20,000 |
| MARIA SEYMOUR BROOKER MEMORIAL | $15,000 |
| CT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT | $10,000 |
| THE INDEPENDENCE FUND | $10,000 |
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, $215k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 37% 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.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 13% of Wayne Eisenbaum Charitable Foundati’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 79% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 71% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 93% 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
- OFOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED9× · 2017–2025 · $180k · revenue +29%
- TIThe Independence Fund Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +13%
- PTPRIME TIME HOUSE INC8× · 2018–2025 · $140k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- FIFELLOWSHIP IN SERVING HUMANITYone grant, 2017 · $20k
- WWWOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +38%
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.
Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with…
Veterans inc.'s mission is to end homelessness among veterans by helping veterans regain control of their lives. we believe that all veterans have earned respect and gratitude from our nation. this belief is translated into the philosophy…
To provide shelter and affordable housing, as well as advocacy and support services, to homeless, battered and low-income women, with or without children. abby's house empowers the women we serve to lead self-directed lives filled with…
The women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.
To provide accessible barrier-free services to empower people experiencing problems with homelessness, housing, hunger, and poverty and to advocate for solutions to those problems.
Inspirica is one of the largest providers of emergency housing, permanent supportive housing and support services in connecticut. each night, we house over 500 people including children. we operate 12 facilities in stamford and provide an…
Provide job training through various programs.
The mission of the organization is to ensure safety and stability for people who are battered, abused, homeless or at risk; to create public awareness about the epidemic of violence; and to mobilize the community to prevent violence and…
Jewish family services of greenwich (jfs) is a nonprofit social service agency dedicated to strengthening individuals and families in fairfield and new london counties. jfs provides behavioral health counseling, food security programs,…
New hope engages survivors, stakeholders and communities to build an anti-violence movement. using a trauma-informed practice, we work with those impacted by sexual and domestic violence, as well as those persons who use abuse in their…
Viability's mission is to build a world in which individuals with disabilities and other disadvantages realize acceptance, inclusion, and access.
The successful transition of military veterans and their families through the provision of housing, counseling, career development and comprehensive support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Operation Fuel Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 22 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 OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Independence Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIME TIME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARIA SEYMOUR BROOKER MEMORIAL ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIORS FAMILY SUPPORT 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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Torrington Savings Foundation · Foundation for Community Health Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable 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 Wayne Eisenbaum Charitable Foundati 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.
- The Arc of Litchfield County Inc — 97% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- Prime Time House Inc — 50% of income from government
- Maria Seymour Brooker Memorial — 1% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony 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.