· Private foundation
Joan F Dionne Family Foundation
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 FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Summer Theatre of New Canaan | $5,000 |
| Horizons | $5,000 |
| Star Inc Lighting the Way | $5,000 |
| Adam J Lewis Academy | $5,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $2,500 |
| Person to Person | $500 |
| Staying Put in New Canaan | $400 |
| Visiting Nurses & Hospice of Fairfield | $200 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- STSUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC7× · 2019–2025 · $40k · revenue +9%
- AJADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $30k · revenue +227%
- SISTAR INC - LIGHTING THE WAY7× · 2019–2025 · $30k · revenue +40%
Funded once
- WLWAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK INC2× · 2019–2020 · $5k
- NCNew Canaan Community Fdtn5× · 2021–2025 · $3k
- AFARTS FOR HEALING INCone grant, 2019 · $2k · revenue 0%
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.
We seek to provide the highest quality of compassionate, person-centered care. we are committed to offering services and resources to continually meet and exceed the growing needs of older adults and their families.
We seek to provide the highest quality of compassionate, person-centered care. we are committed to offering services and resources to continually meet and exceed the growing needs of older adults and their families.
To provide a six unit facility for low and moderate income developmentally disabled individuals in new canaan, ct to live in
Whitney center's mission, excellence in senior living, is grounded in the principal that all elders, regardless of physical or cognitive limitation, have the right to engage in life and seek fulfillment. our ideals of self-determination,…
Home care services (under contract with various mco organizations)
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…
New foundations, inc. provides residential facilities, supported living programs, and vocational supports for individuals with special needs who are located throughout the state of connecticut.
The mission of hebrew life choices aligns with the mission of its parent organization, hebrew health care, to provide quality services to senior adults. (see schedule o)as part of an integrated system to assist seniors in the hartford,…
Licensed home care agency, providing nursing, therapy and home health aide services.
The mission of hebrew community services aligns with the mission of its parent organization, hebrew health care, to provide quality services to senior adults. (see schedule o)as part of an integrated system to assist seniors in the…
To provide support services to individuals with developmental disabilities throughout connecticut and to maintain a commitment to empower individuals with developmental disabilities and their families to have more choices and opportunities…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Star Inc - Lighting the Way and the most unlike its peers is Waveny Lifecare Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 SUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds STAR INC - LIGHTING THE WAY ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR HEALING INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY 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: New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · MLE Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Bauer Family Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · 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 Joan F Dionne Family Foundation 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.
- Star Inc - Lighting the Way — 88% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Summer Theatre of New Canaan 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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