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Dxn Foundation
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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $87k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YELLOW FARMHOUSE | $35,000 |
| STONINGTON FREE LIBRARYCOMMUNITY CENTERCEMETERY | $16,500 |
| NEW LONDON COMMUNITY CENTER | $15,000 |
| MISCELLANEOUS | $10,000 |
| PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER | $10,000 |
| OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA | $7,500 |
| SURFRIDER FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE | $5,000 |
| ALLIANCE FOR MYSTIC WATERSHED | $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 (FY21–25, $31k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 76% of those 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +53% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 8 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $89k 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
- DPDENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $14k · revenue +10%
- SCSTONINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC2× · 2023–2024 · $12k · revenue +9%
- PNPAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC2× · 2021–2025 · $12k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- CFCOMMUNITY FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $5k
- CFCOMMUNITY FUNDS INCone grant, 2021 · $5k
- TSTHE STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY INCone grant, 2020 · $3k · 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 deer isle-stonington historical society was formed in 1959 with the goal of collecting and preserving historical facts, records and relics pertaining to deer isle, stonington and adjoining communities and islands of east penobscot bay…
It is the mission of the seacoast science center to spark curiosity, enhance understanding, and inspire conservation of our blue planet. the center's programming and exhibits encourage visitors and other program participants to recognize…
To preserve the town's natural resources.
Founded in 1881 the Staten Island Museum engages visitors with interdisciplinary exhibitions, public programs, and educational activities for all ages. It is the mission of the Staten Island Museum to spark curiosity and generate…
To promote conservation education
The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…
To provide leadership and take initiatives for locally led conservation with the goal to protect soil, water and other natural resources of north central connecticut.
The ecotarium's mission is to inspire a passion for science and nature among all members of the community through one-of-a-kind experiences, interactive exhibits, and accessible programming. as new england's leading science and nature…
The Stamford Museum & Nature Center is a vital cultural and educational resource for the community, and a focal point for family activity and interaction. (continued on Schedule O)We seek to inspire creativity, foster self-discovery,…
Providing quality materials and services, which fulfill the educational, information, cultural and recreational needs of the entire community in an atmosphere that is welcoming and respectful.
The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…
Environmental preservation
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Stonington Free Library Inc and the most unlike its peers is Stonington Cemetery Association Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 30 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 DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER ↗
- Who funds STONINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STONINGTON CEMETERY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds ISLAND GROWN INITIATIVE LTD ↗
- Who funds AGRICULTURAL INSTITUTE OF MARIN ↗
- Who funds THE VIVIAN BEAUMONT THEATERINC D/B/A LINCOLN CENTER THEATER ↗
- Who funds THE SURFRIDER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds STONINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARINE MAMMAL CENTER ↗
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: Castle Family Foundation · Tua Benson P Blake Char Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Doogood Foundation Inc · The Wimpfheimer Foundation Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Dxn Foundation 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.
- The Stonington Free Library Inc — 2% of income from government
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 0% of income from government
- Island Grown Initiative Ltd — 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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