· Private foundation
Gardiner Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LAWRENCE & MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $30,000 |
| THE WILLIAMS SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC | $20,000 |
| WATERFORD YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES | $15,000 |
| HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC | $10,000 |
| NEW LONDON COUNTY 4-H PROGRAM | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF WATERFORD POLICE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FDN INC | $5,000 |
| NIANTIC BAY SAILING ACADEMY | $5,000 |
| CHILD & FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CT | $5,000 |
| WATERFORD AMBULANCE SERVICE | $5,000 |
| WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| WATERFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY | $5,000 |
| ABS-AIR SAFETY FDN | $5,000 |
| WATERFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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.
22 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $62k 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
- LMLAWRENCE MEMORIAL CORPORATION4× · 2021–2024 · $120k · revenue +78%
HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC5× · 2021–2025 · $44k · revenue +15%- CACHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC4× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- TOTOWN OF WATERFORD YOUTH AND FAMILYone grant, 2024 · $15k
- TOTOWN OF WATERFORD CHILDRENSone grant, 2023 · $10k
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 purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
To provide medical care in the westerly, rhode island community and surrounding towns.
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
The foundation was organized to support lmw healthcare inc. and to promote the charitable, educational and scientific purposes of the hospital through management of philanthropic activities and support for lmw healthcare inc.
To provide and administer a comprehensive multidisciplinary, therapeutic and public health nursing program primarily to residents of the southeastern connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is New London County Historical Societ. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 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 LAWRENCE MEMORIAL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds WATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE WATERFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERFORD AMBULANCE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds Niantic Bay Sailing Academy Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIET ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut 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 · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Gardiner Family 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.
- Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 55% of income from government
- Waterford Country School Inc — 29% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital 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.