· Private foundation
Harold Webster Smith Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY19–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 72% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 70% of Harold Webster Smith Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +137% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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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…
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How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 18 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Harold Webster Smith Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Harold Webster Smith Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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