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Dornam Foundation Beth Putnam / Wendy Doran-Paley Trustees at a glance

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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.

$173k
Granted FY2025still arriving
15
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Education$422kPhilanthropy$138kEmployment$134kHuman Services$117kReligion$93kFood & Nutrition$8kCommunity Improvement$1kOther$0
02FY2025 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $43k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $80k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$6,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD$6,000
CHURCH OF ST PETER CLAVER$6,000
KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL$6,000
CONNECTICUT COLLEGE$6,000
UCONN FOUNDATION$5,000
UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT$5,000
ST JOSEPH BYZANTINE CATHOLIC CHURCH$500
ST FRANCISST JOSEPH CATHOLIC WOMEN'S CLUB$500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%READ TO A CHILD: $8k → 7%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $6k → 9%ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $8k → 11%JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY: $35k → 17%ST FRANCISST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHES: $12k → 19%READ TO A CHILD: $8k → 7%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $6k → 9%ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $8k → 11%JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY: $30k → 17%ST FRANCISST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHES: $12k → 19%READ TO A CHILD: $6k → 7%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $6k → 9%ARCHBISHOP'S ANNUAL APPEAL: $7k → 11%JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY: $30k → 17%ST FRANCISST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHES: $12k → 19%READ TO A CHILD: $6k → 7%CONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $6k → 9%ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $6k → 11%JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY: $30k → 17%ST FRANCISST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHES: $12k → 19%READ TO A CHILD: $6k → 7%ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $6k → 11%JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%ST FRANCISST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHES: $12k → 19%ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $6k → 11%JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY: $25k → 17%ST FRANCISST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHES: $12k → 19%SENIORS JOB BANK: $50k → 11%SENIORS JOB BANK: $50k → 11%SENIORS JOB BANK: $17k → 11%SENIORS JOB BANK: $10k → 11%STEUBENVILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 19%SENIORS JOB BANK: $8k → 11%STEUBENVILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $15k → 19%ST PETER CLAVER CHURCH: $7k → 11%CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $12k → 19%CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $12k → 19%CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $12k → 19%CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $12k → 19%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER HARTFORD: $13k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER HARTFORD: $12k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER HARTFORD: $12k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER HARTFORD: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER HARTFORD: $10k → 11%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREATER HARTFORD: $10k → 11%MANDELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 11%MANDELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 11%MANDELL JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER: $7k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$784k · 20 repeat orgs$27k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
6

Total granted

$784k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+359%

Still filing today

45%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $500 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationEmploymentPhilanthropyPublic BenefitOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 University
    6× · 2020–2025 · $175k · revenue +16%
  • SJ
    SENIORS JOB BANK INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $134k · revenue +65% · 39% of their budget
  • JF
    Jewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc
    6× · 2020–2025 · $67k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • AA
    ARCHBISHOP'S ANNUAL APPEAL
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • SP
    ST PETER CLAVER R C CHURCH CORP
    one grant, 2020 · $7k
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +359%
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
University of Hartford

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.

Education
3
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
4
Fairfield University

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.

Education
5
Fordham University

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.

Education
6
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
7
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
8
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy

Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.

Philanthropy
11
Quinnipiac University

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…

Education
12
The Common Application Inc

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…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut; 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.
04the grantee network

14 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
11/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ST FRANCISST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHES: $72,000 · OtherST FRANCISST JOSEPH CATHOLIC CHURCHESJewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc: $67,000 · OtherJewish Family Service of Greater Hartford …CATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP FUND: $48,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL SCHOLARSHIP F…ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $34,000 · OtherARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORDSTEUBENVILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOLS: $30,000 · OtherSTEUBENVILLE CATHOLIC SCHOOLSCHURCH OF ST PETER CLAVER: $24,000 · OtherCHURCH OF ST PETER CLAVERTHE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $21,200 · OtherTHE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HAR…+12 more: $46,300 · Other+12 moreJohn Carroll University: $175,000 · EducationJohn Carroll UniversityREAD TO A CHILD INC: $39,000 · EducationREAD TO A CHILD INCKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $35,000 · EducationKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INCCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $34,000 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGETHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDAT…SENIORS JOB BANK INC: $134,474 · EmploymentSENIORS JOB BANK…FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $106,300 · Community ImprovementFIDELITY INVE…UNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT: $30,000 · PhilanthropyHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $1,500 · PhilanthropyLEADERSHIP GREATER HARTFORD INC: $1,000 · Public Benefit
Other$342,500Education$303,000Employment$134,474Community Improvement$106,300Philanthropy$31,500Public Benefit$1,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetJohn Carroll University: $175,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSENIORS JOB BANK INC: $134,474 over 5y, 39% of budgetFIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND: $106,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc: $67,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetREAD TO A CHILD INC: $39,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetKINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC: $35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT: $30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE JOYCE D & ANDREW J MANDELL GREATER HARTFORD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $21,200 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK CITY COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFOODSHARE INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLEADERSHIP GREATER HARTFORD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Hartford Foundation f…Aetna Foundation IncThe William and Alice…Farmington Bank Commu…The Pfizer Foundation…Network for GoodAmerican Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT17.5× affinity6 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Dornam Foundation Beth Putnam / Wendy Doran-Paley Trustees funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Dornam Foundation Beth Putnam / Wendy Doran-Paley Trustees. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Dornam Foundation Beth Putnam / Wendy Doran-Paley Trustees through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 29 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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