· Private foundation
Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds
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 $10k4 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE SALVADORI CENTER | $10,000 |
| THE SALVADORI CENTER | $7,500 |
| THE NORWALK ART SPACE | $1,500 |
| NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT | $1,500 |
| WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $600 |
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 (FY21–22, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2025, 6 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; $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
- TNTHE NORWALK ART SPACE INC3× · 2022–2025 · $16k · revenue +1%
- IAIDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · $6k · revenue +0%
- SISocial Impact Partners Inc2× · 2021–2022 · $4k · revenue +193%
Funded once
- GBGROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue -12%
WNETone grant, 2023 · $2k · revenue +7%- OFOBAMA FUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $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.
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
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…
Nysci's mission is to nurture generations of passionate learners, critical thinkers, and active citizens through design make play - an approach to learning and engagement that is deeply rooted in research on stem learning and guides the…
Readyct works to advance academic excellence and career-connected learning for all public school students in connecticut through collaboration with business, civic, and education leaders.
The childrens museum groups mission is to inspire lifelong learning among children and their caregivers by providing experiential learning opportunities covering steam, health nature and the environment. with a focus on at need communities…
The waldorf school of garden city educates children to meet the world with purpose, gratitude and respect. our curriculum, inspired by rudolf steiner, progresses in accordance with child development, awakening students to the experience of…
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
Wps is an innovative secondary school with an advanced model of education where learning thrives everywhere - in our classroom, through internships, and throughout the local and greater communities. our teachers are dedicated to creating…
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…
To build innovative science labs in urban schools. to accomplish its mission, the organization offers its greenhouse project initiative, which uses hydroponic farming technology to educate students and teachers about the science of…
Inspiring hartford's children to make positive choices; embrace high expectations and fulfill their potential by providing successful mentors, individualized tutoring, enriching activities, and stimulating environments.
The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Ecology Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp. 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, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 14 of the 21 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 SALVADORI CENTER LTD ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS BRIDGEPORT ↗
- Who funds THE NORWALK ART SPACE INC ↗
- Who funds IDYLLWILD ARTS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Social Impact Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds WNET ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN EXCHANGE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARACK OBAMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds DESCENDANTS MEDIA GROUP NFP INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · 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 Charles H Weinman Foundation for Developing Minds 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.
- Groundwork Bridgeport Inc — 100% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp — 11% of income from government
- New Haven Ecology Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Norwalk Art Space Inc — 1% 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.