· Private foundation
Harold Webster Smith 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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $1k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $203k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEIGHBORWORKS NEW HORIZONS | $103,000 |
| WATERBURY LAND BANK AUTHORITY | $100,000 |
| HISPANIC COALITION OF GREATER WATERBURY INC | $20,000 |
| CT COUNCIL OF PHILANTHROPY | $17,409 |
| UCONN FOUNDATION INC | $12,875 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY EMERGENCY FUND | $10,000 |
| REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 70% of Harold Webster Smith Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +137% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- WLWATERBURY LAND BANK AUTHORITY INC4× · 2022–2025 · $350k · revenue +137%
- HCHISPANIC COALITION OF GREATER WATERBURY7× · 2019–2025 · $90k · revenue +212%
- WDWATERBURY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION3× · 2020–2022 · $55k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- WCWATERBURY COMMUNITY INVESTMENT LLCone grant, 2019 · $150k
- COCITY OF WATERBURYone grant, 2019 · $68k
- MHMATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +9%
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 western connecticut area agency on aging, inc. (wcaaa) develops, manages and provides comprehensive services through person centered planning for seniors, caregivers and individuals with disabilities in order to maintain their…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To effectively and efficiently mitigate risks to the reliability and security of the western interconnection's bulk power system.
Meet the workforce needs of employers and support economic development in greater new bedford.
Wwt's mission is to protect and restore water in rivers and streams across washington state. washington water trust restores and protects water in rivers and streams and promotes sustainable freshwater management in washington, and, more…
To foster an equitable and inclusive community in greater waterbury and litchfield hills by inspiring generosity, supporting organizations, and cultivating effective leaders. the foundation works to address the community's critical issues,…
The westerly land trust conserves open space, revitalizes culturally significant properties, and provides environmental programs for the enduring benefit of our community.
The general purpose of the west alabama regional commission is to plan for the unified and far-reaching development of the west alabama region, eliminate duplication of services by member governments, and promote economy and efficiency…
The mission of the westchester county association is to maintain a position as the center of influence for business advocacy issues on behalf of our membership as well as enhancing the economic vitality of the region. we will be committed…
The foundation facilitates equitable access to healthcare services for the greater waterbury community. our founding principles are to provide for the healthcare needs (including medical equipment and expenses) of the 13-town greater…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc and the most unlike its peers is Mattatuck Historical Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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 WATERBURY LAND BANK AUTHORITY INC ↗
- Who funds HISPANIC COALITION OF GREATER WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds WATERBURY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL PLAN ASSOCIATION 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: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · 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 Harold Webster Smith 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.
- Waterbury Land Bank Authority Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury — 53% of income from government
- Waterbury Development Corporation — 47% of income from government
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% 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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