· Private foundation
Cummings & Lockwood Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| STAMFORD DOWNTOWN SPECIAL SERVICES DISTRICT | $2,500 |
| THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC | $2,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC | $1,500 |
| BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS CHARITY FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| SHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES | $1,500 |
| HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA | $1,500 |
| PACIFIC HOUSE INC | $1,000 |
| CT FOODSHARE | $1,000 |
| SCHOKE JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE | $600 |
| THE SHELTER | $600 |
| TRINITY ACADEMY OF HARTFORD | $500 |
| THE AMISTAD CENTER FOR ART & CULTURE | $500 |
| STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN | $500 |
| PALM BEACH COUNTY FOOD BANK | $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 (FY17–24, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 26% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 43% of Cummings & Lockwood Foundation Inc’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, 57% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 35% — 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.
28 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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
- CLCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC4× · 2017–2024 · $11k · revenue +23%
- SWSHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +292%
- BNBOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC5× · 2018–2024 · $9k · revenue +69%
Funded once
- SCSHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue -53%
TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMYone grant, 2018 · $10k · revenue +8%- PTPERSON TO PERSON INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $5k · revenue +30%
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 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 foster an equitable and inclusive community in greater waterbury and litchfield hills by inspiring generosity, supporting organizations, and cultivating effective leaders. the foundation works to address the community's critical issues,…
Community first credit union of florida's mission is to provide the highest in quality financial solutions for every stage of life.
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…
The tampa bay partnership is a privately funded, ceo-driven regional advocacy organization, committed to creating a unified, competitive and prosperous tampa bay.
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…
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
Inspired by jewish values, we protect the vulnerable, empower individuals and strengthen families. (continued on schedule o)
Florida community health centers, inc. (fchc) is a federally qualified health center serving medically needy populations in south florida, with an emphasis on serving rural and farm worker communities.
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Rotary Club of Estero. 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 39 years old; the field is 14. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% 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.
61 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. 61 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 CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SHAWN CARTER SCHOLARSHIP FUND ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF PHILLIPS ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds SHADOW WOOD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BOBBY NICHOLS - FIDDLESTICKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA LUMOS INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA GREENWICH CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREENWICH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH TREE CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARRY CHAPIN FOOD BANK OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA INC ↗
- Who funds EDUCATION FOUNDATION OF COLLIER COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BONITA SPRINGS CONCERT BAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONSERVANCY OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA ↗
- Who funds NAPLES BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE IMMOKALEE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLACE OF HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FERGUSON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF PBC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NAPLES ZOO INC ↗
- Who funds EXECUTIVE WOMEN OF THE PALM BEACHES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOLOCAUST MUSEUM & EDUCATION CENTER OF SOUTHWEST FLORIDA 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 · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Collier Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · Garden Homes Fund · Panwy Foundation Inc · The Tudor 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 Cummings & Lockwood 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.
- Mill River Collaborative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc — 47% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Connecticut Bar Foundation — 25% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
- The Amistad Center for Art & Culture Inc — 18% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- I-Park Foundation Inc — 10% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Naples Botanical Garden Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc — 2% of income from government
- Orchestra Lumos Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope 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.
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