· Private foundation
Dime Bank Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k70 grants · $267k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REBUILDING TOGETHER OF MANCHESTER | $15,000 |
| OPERATION WARM | $9,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $7,500 |
| MARTIN HOUSE INC | $7,500 |
| OPERATION FUEL | $7,500 |
| CONNECTICUT FOOD SHARE | $7,500 |
| HOCKANUM VALLEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL | $7,500 |
| NEW LONDON YOUTH AFFAIRS | $7,500 |
| COVENANT SHELTER OF NEW LONDON INC | $6,000 |
| THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE INC | $6,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $6,000 |
| GENTLE LOVE DIAPER PANTRY INC | $5,000 |
| GLENBROOKE OUTDOOR SPORTS CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| HYGIENIC ART | $5,000 |
| EASTERN CT WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD | $5,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $252k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 14% 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.
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 +33% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
93 repeat relationships — 41 still active in FY2025, 52 since wound down; 28 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, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84k 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 INCORPORATED6× · 2019–2025 · $58k · revenue +35%
- OWOperation Warm Inc6× · 2019–2025 · $45k · revenue +216%
- MHMartin House Inc6× · 2019–2025 · $32k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TCTotal Contributions paidone grant, 2024 · $340k
- CFCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CTone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SVST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE NORWICH INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $8k · revenue +51%
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.
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
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…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
To improve the quality of life for economically disadvantaged individuals by providing the necessary resources to increase their standard of living, foster self improvement, and to maximize self empowerment.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
To provide quality services to meet selected needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the greater new haven region.
To grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.
Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.
The life center, inc. operates residential centers and conducts outreach helping persons adversely affected by substance abuse find drug free productive and meaningful lives.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is Lifefaqsorg. 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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
113 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. 113 of the 193 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 Operation Warm Inc ↗
- Who funds Martin House Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON AREA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER OF MANCHESTER CT ↗
- Who funds HOCKANUM VALLEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds Madonna Place Inc ↗
- Who funds THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
- Who funds FRANK OLEAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Riverfront Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHER EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Thames River Community Service Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GENTLE LOVE DIAPER PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN RHODE ISLAND VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds RELIANCE HEALTH 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: Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · R S Gernon Trust · Ion Bank 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 Dime Bank 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.
- Reliance Health Inc — 100% of income from government
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Housing Collective Inc — 100% of income from government
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Journey Found Inc — 93% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
- Community Health Resources Inc — 79% of income from government
- Lumibility Inc — 76% of income from government
- Thames River Community Service Inc — 76% of income from government
- Alliance for Living Inc — 72% of income from government
- United Cerebral Palsy Association of Eastern Connecticut — 72% of income from government
- Easterseals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut — 63% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- The Covenant Shelter of New London Inc — 61% of income from government
- Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 55% of income from government
- Artreach Inc — 54% of income from government
- Martin House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 47% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc — 47% of income from government
- The New London Community Meal Center Inc — 44% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Covenant to Care for Children Inc — 35% of income from government
- United Community and Family Servicesinc — 29% of income from government
- Waterford Country School Inc — 29% of income from government
- The Lighthouse Voc-Ed Center Inc — 24% of income from government
- Riverfront Childrens Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
- Hockanum Valley Community Council — 20% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Health Education Center Inc — 19% of income from government
- Steps Inc — 18% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc — 12% of income from government
- Garde Arts Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Higher Edge Inc — 4% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Place Norwich Inc — 4% of income from government
- Southeastern Regional Action Council Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Flock Theatre — 1% of income from government
- The Riseup Group Inc — 1% of income from government
- New London Area Food Pantry — 1% of income from government
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 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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