· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| 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 |
| AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION | $500 |
| ASAP (AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM) | $500 |
| ALZHEIMERS ASSOCIATION OF CONNECTICUT | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
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 +46%
Funded once
- AFAMERICAN FILM INSTITUE DEVELOPMENT OFFICEone grant, 2017 · $2k
- TRTHE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +45%
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.
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.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 27 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Jean Widmark and Richard Widmark Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Jean Widmark and Richard Widmark Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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