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Dornam Foundation Beth Putnam / Wendy Doran-Paley Trustees
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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $43k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SENIORS JOB BANK | $50,000 |
| JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY | $25,000 |
| FIDELITY CHARITABLE | $18,000 |
| STEUBENVILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS | $15,000 |
| ST FRANCISST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHES | $12,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER HARTFORD | $10,000 |
| READ TO A CHILD | $8,000 |
| KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL | $6,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COLLEGE | $6,000 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD | $6,000 |
| CHURCH OF ST PETER CLAVER | $6,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT | $5,000 |
| UCONN FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| ST JOSEPH BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH | $500 |
| ST FRANCISST JOSEPH CATHOLIC WOMEN'S CLUB | $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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of your 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.
20 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 7 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 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
John Carroll University6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +16%- SJSENIORS JOB BANK INC5× · 2020–2025 · $134k · revenue +65% · 39% of their budget
- JFJewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- AAARCHBISHOP'S ANNUAL APPEALone grant, 2020 · $7k
- SPST PETER CLAVER R C CHURCH CORPone grant, 2020 · $7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
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…
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.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…
The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut and the most unlike its peers is Seniors Job Bank Inc. 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 29 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 John Carroll University ↗
- Who funds SENIORS JOB BANK INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ↗
- Who funds Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc ↗
- Who funds READ TO A CHILD INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds THE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP GREATER HARTFORD 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 Dornam Foundation Beth Putnam / Wendy Doran-Paley Trustees 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.
- Seniors Job Bank Inc — 8% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School 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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