· 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 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Adam J Lewis Academy | $5,000 |
| Summer Theatre of New Canaan | $5,000 |
| Horizons | $5,000 |
| Star Inc Lighting the Way | $5,000 |
| First Presbyterian Church | $2,500 |
| Person to Person | $500 |
| Staying Put in New Canaan | $400 |
| Visiting Nurses & Hospice of Fairfield | $200 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +36% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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…
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 11 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 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 ↗
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: 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Joan F Dionne Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Joan F Dionne Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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