· Private foundation
Robert S Smith Family Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $47k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $240k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITY OF GREATER HARTFORD | $40,000 |
| MACC CHARITIES | $30,000 |
| HOCKANUM VALLEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC | $30,000 |
| BANCROFT NEUROHEALTH | $30,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| MATH - MEDICAL AID TO HAITI INC | $25,000 |
| ST JUDE'S CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| BOSTON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL | $10,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| GAYLORD HOSPITAL INC | $10,000 |
| DIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| CONNECTICUT DRAFT HORSE RESCUE | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $319k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 90% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +29% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
38 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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
- HVHOCKANUM VALLEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $230k · revenue +11%
- BABANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION8× · 2017–2025 · $195k · revenue +108%
- MAMEDICAL AID TO HAITI INC3× · 2023–2025 · $75k · revenue +26%
Funded once
- BNBANCROFT NEUROHEALTHone grant, 2021 · $25k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMYone grant, 2020 · $10k
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY GREATER HARTFORDone grant, 2021 · $10k
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.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health of new england is a member of trinity health.
To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is Wickham Park Tr. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
56 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. 56 of the 89 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 HOCKANUM VALLEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds BANCROFT A NEW JERSEY NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICAL AID TO HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds Gaylord Hospital INC ↗
- Who funds MANCHESTER AREA CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Acadia ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds RAY OF LIGHT FARM INC ↗
- Who funds AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN ↗
- Who funds Project Sweet Peas ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds WICKHAM PARK TR ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT DRAFT HORSE RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds PROSTATE CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SIMSBURY RUGBY CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds ARTHRITIS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Highland Park Families Foundation · Sbm Charitable 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 Robert S Smith Family 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.
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
- Fellowship Place Inc — 66% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Hockanum Valley Community Council — 20% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc — 15% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Int'l Orthodox Christian Charities Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 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.
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