· Private foundation
McFadden Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE LITCHFIELD LAND TRUST | $2,500 |
| LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER | $350 |
| OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY | $250 |
| LITCHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $100 |
| LITCHFIELD HILLS CHORE SERVICE | $100 |
| NCCF - WOMEN & GIRLS FUND | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $100 |
| FIVE POINTS ART CENTER | $100 |
| EAST LITCHFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE CO | $100 |
| WARNER THEATRE | $100 |
| Individual grant recipient | $100 |
| PRIME TIME HOUSE INC | $100 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $100 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD | $100 |
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 +54% since the first grant, against -10% for the ones you funded once.
29 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
- LLLITCHFIELD LAND TRUST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +78%
- OWOLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +49%
- LCLITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $3k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $100
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $100
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $100
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Provide cemetery services (i.e. lawn care, burial services at sites) for members of the litchfield, connecticut community.
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…
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Long island partnership clt housing development fund company, inc. (lipclt) was established to provide housing within nassau and suffolk counties in new york for "persons of low income", as defined in any federal or state low income…
Promote general business climate in Litchfield
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Oliver Wolcott Library Inc and the most unlike its peers is Litchfield Housing Trust Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 41 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 LITCHFIELD LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EAST LITCHFIELD VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD HILLS CHORE SERVICE ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY SMILES INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD HEALTH AND WELLNESS RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc ↗
- Who funds PRIME TIME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital ↗
- Who funds GREATER LITCHFIELD PRESERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds OUR PIECE OF THE PIE 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: Seherr-Thoss Charitable Trust · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Francis J and Louisa J Oneglia Foundation Inc · The Littman Family Foundation Inc · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Seherr-Thoss Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Mae Casali Bonvicini Charitable Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc
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 McFadden 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.
- Prime Time House Inc — 50% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
- Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc — 12% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Litchfield Performing Arts Inc — 4% of income from government
- Litchfield Historical Society — 3% of income from government
- The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital — 3% of income from government
- East Litchfield Volunteer Fire Co Inc — 1% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% 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.