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Aldo Dedominicis Foundation Inc
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 |
|---|---|
| YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| NURTURING MINDS INC | $5,000 |
| AMITY CHARITABLE TRUST | $4,100 |
| NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $2,500 |
| THE BUSHNELL ANNUAL FUND | $2,000 |
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY | $2,000 |
| QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| ITALIAN AMERICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $2,000 |
| SHUBERT PERFORMING ARTS THE CAPA DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT | $2,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $2,000 |
| GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE | $2,000 |
| ARTS & IDEAS NEW HAVEN | $1,500 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT SCHOOL OF LAW | $1,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN | $1,500 |
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, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
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 +42% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- YNYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +64%
- NMNURTURING MINDS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +243%
- QUQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- TITHE ITALIAN AMERICAN SOCIETYone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TATHE AMITY CLUB INCORPORATEDone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -4%
- HEHEALTHY EYES ALLIANCEone grant, 2017 · $1k
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 connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
We are a warm and vibrant senior community, infused with jewish values, where people live their best lives.
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.
Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…
Provide to its members information, services and special events to expand, promote and develop new business in the greater new haven, connecticut region
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hill-Stead Museum and the most unlike its peers is New Haven Register Fresh Air Fund. 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 43 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
45 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. 45 of the 83 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 YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NURTURING MINDS INC ↗
- Who funds Hospital For Special Care ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds University of New Haven ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds THE NEW HAVEN SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The Cheshire Community Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WHEAT INC ↗
- Who funds Spiritual Life Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FISH OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Community Soup Kitchen Incorporated ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds LOAVES AND FISHES NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART ↗
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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Yale University · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The John G Martin Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman 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 Aldo Dedominicis 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.
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
- New Horizons Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wheat Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Hospital for Special Care — 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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