· Private foundation
Jean Widmark and Richard Widmark Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC | $2,000 |
| THE HOLE IN THE WALL GANG CAMP | $2,000 |
| LAKE FOREST COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| WESTERN CONNECTICUT HEALTH NETWORK | $1,500 |
| SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER | $1,500 |
| AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE DEVELOPMENT OFFICE | $1,250 |
| MINOR MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $1,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION | $1,000 |
| BRADY CENTER TO PREVENT HANDGUN VIOLENCE | $1,000 |
| WOMEN'S CENTER OF GREATER DANBURY | $750 |
| ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $750 |
| ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION | $750 |
| NEW MILFORD FOOD BANK | $500 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| ASAP (AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM) | $500 |
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 (FY17–24, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +33% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
24 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
Lake Forest College7× · 2017–2024 · $17k · revenue +73%- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +79%
- HIHOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC7× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FILM INSTITUE DEVELOPMENT OFFICEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TRTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INCone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +22%
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.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
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…
NHF supports, encourages and coordinates the development of comprehensive, integrated health care-related services for the advancement and well-being of the community, in furtherance of the purposes of Newport Hospital (see Schedule O)
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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.
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The mission of the Windham Hospital Foundation Inc., is to build a bridge between the community and the hospital and to enhance the resources that support the Hospital in meeting the health care needs of our community.
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 Hunt Hill Farm Trust. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 5% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
20 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. 20 of the 27 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 Lake Forest College ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MILFORD COMMUNITY AMBULANCE INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds American Diabetes Association ↗
- Who funds DERBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds HUNT HILL FARM TRUST ↗
- Who funds Western Connecticut Health Network Inc ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS 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: Persbacker Foundation Inc · The Lawrence J Portell and Natalie D Portell Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Patrick Foundation · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Kermit and Patricia Adler Foundation Inc · Norwitt Family Charitable Foundation · The Robert & Mary Lou Morgado Charitable Trust · Taylor-Zemo Foundation Inc · The Ellen Knowles Harcourt 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 Jean Widmark and Richard Widmark 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.
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc — 17% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
- After School Arts Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc — 1% 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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