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RobyDodd Family Charitable 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.

$412k
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
8
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Health$409kEducation$400kCrime & Legal$186kCivil Rights$150kCommunity Improvement$66kScience & Tech$66kHuman Services$43kInternational$33kOther$0
02FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $85k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $227k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$6,850
Median grant
8
States reached
$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION$50,000
VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY$50,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSONS RESEARCH$34,000
SAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC$30,000
ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION$28,000
WOMENS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC$25,000
NUVANCE HEALTH$25,000
NATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND$20,000
THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM FOUNDATION INC$20,000
THE CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT AND EDUCATION INC$15,000
ACT OF CONNECTICUT INC$10,000
NORTHERN DUTCHESS HOSPITAL$10,000
NORWALK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC$10,000
THE NEW AMERICAN DREAM FOUNDATION INC$7,500
NORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC$7,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY19–24, $86k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 52% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 10%NATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER: $10k → 18%FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $10k → 13%BRONX BETHANY COMMUNITY CORPORATION: $2k → 28%THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $5k → 9%MIDWEST FOOD BANK NFP INC: $500 → 11%FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $5k → 13%FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $5k → 13%FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $5k → 13%FAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $5k → 13%MIRIAMS KITCHEN: $3k → 14%OFF THE STREETS INC: $10k → 9%ANNS PLACE INC: $10k → 9%ANNS PLACE INC: $500 → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $5k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $5k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $5k → 9%PROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
MT
MN
IL
NY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
NC
DC
HI
LA
AL
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.3M · 25 repeat orgs$210k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +37% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

25 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
35

Total granted

$1.3M
$177k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesEducationInternationalAnimalsCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • TC
    The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc
    6× · 2019–2024 · $161k · revenue +38%
  • VU
    VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2019–2024 · $160k · revenue +37%
  • HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • IR
    International Rescue Committee INC
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue -4%
  • AI
    AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS
    one grant, 2019 · $15k · revenue +2%
  • AN
    AMERICAN NATIONAL RED CROSS Western Connecticut C
    one grant, 2022 · $10k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Nuvance Health Medical Practice Ct Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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2
University of New Haven

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…

Education
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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5
North Shore Health System Medical Faculty Group Practice

North shore health system medical faculty group practice (the corporation) functions as an extension of the northwell health hospitals by bringing medical care to community settings, providing care to medicare, medicaid, and other…

Health
6
Western Connecticut Home Care Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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7
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Western Connecticut Health Network Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

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9
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Vassar Health Connecticut Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
11
Northeast Medical Group Inc

To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.

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12
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wounded Warrior Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is St John Rescue Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 69 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
58/59
Grantees still filing
45/59
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $160,000 · EducationVILLANOVA UNIVERSITYSAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $120,000 · EducationSAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS I…WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $61,850 · EducationWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMEN…+3 more: $20,000 · Education+3 moreThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc: $161,300 · OtherThe Center For Empowerment And…Western Connecticut Health Network Affiliates Inc: $50,000 · OtherWestern Connecticut Health Net…A Better Chance in Ridgefield Inc: $17,000 · OtherAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $15,000 · OtherInternational Rescue Committee INC: $20,000 · OtherWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 · OtherNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 · OtherNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATI…+27 more: $105,073 · Other+27 moreDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc: $95,000 · HealthDanbury Hospital & N…THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $73,000 · HealthTHE MICHAEL J FOX FO…Nuvance Health: $50,000 · HealthNuvance HealthNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $20,000 · HealthNorwalk Hospital Fou…Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $14,000 · HealthNorthern Dutchess Hospital: $12,500 · Health+4 more: $13,500 · HealthTHE NEW AMERICAN DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $89,700 · PhilanthropyTHE NEW AMER…ROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $68,000 · PhilanthropyROSWELL PARK…BATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $10,000 · PhilanthropyBATON ROUGE …+1 more: $5,000 · PhilanthropyHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $140,000 · Civil RightsHUMAN RIGHT…EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 · Civil RightsEQUAL JUSTI…+1 more: $5,000 · Civil RightsFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $30,000 · Human ServicesPROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $16,000 · Human ServicesANNS PLACE INC: $10,500 · Human ServicesOFF THE STREETS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesTHE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $5,000 · Human Services+3 more: $4,962 · Human ServicesNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND: $40,000 · Science & TechNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10,000 · Science & Tech
Education$361,850Other$405,873Health$278,000Philanthropy$172,700Civil Rights$155,000Human Services$93,962Science & Tech$50,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc: $161,300 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetVILLANOVA UNIVERSITY: $160,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FOUNDATION: $140,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSAMUEL READY SCHOLARSHIPS INC: $120,000 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc: $95,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NEW AMERICAN DREAM FOUNDATION INC: $89,700 over 6y, 12% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $73,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROSWELL PARK ALLIANCE FOUNDATION: $68,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $61,850 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWestern Connecticut Health Network Affiliates Inc: $50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNuvance Health: $50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING FUND: $40,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY JUSTICE CENTER OF ERIE COUNTY INC: $30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetNORTH SALEM OPEN LAND FOUNDATION INC: $22,500 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetA Better Chance in Ridgefield Inc: $17,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetPROSPECTS OPPORTUNITY AND ENRICHMENT INC: $16,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Gulf Coast Inc: $14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRidgefield Operation for Animal Rescue Inc: $13,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNorthern Dutchess Hospital: $12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetANNS PLACE INC: $10,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOFF THE STREETS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetNATIONAL INDIGENOUS WOMENS RESOURCE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetJACKIE ROBINSON FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJERICHO PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACT OF CONNECTICUT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImmigration Outreach Service Center: $10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBATON ROUGE AREA FOUNDATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYellowhammer Fund: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW MEXICO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAMARITANS OF NEW YORK INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetLARRAINE SEGIL SCHOLARS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetST JOHN RESCUE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROJECT HOPE - THE PEOPLE-TO-PEOPLE HEALTH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RELIEF CORP OF NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EVANGELICALS: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCT Against Gun Violence Education Fund Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHIM FOR HER INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPENDER COUNTY HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMAUI HUMANE SOCIETY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVassar Brothers Medical Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Union Savings Bank Fo…Ridgefield Thrift Sho…Synchrony FoundationFairfield County's Co…Taylor-Zemo Foundatio…The Ayco Charitable F…Savings Bank of Danbu…Anna-Maria and Stephe…The Connecticut Commu…The Blackbaud Giving …Newtown Savings Bank …The Goldstone Family …
Union Savings Bank Foundation IncCT21.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Taylor-Zemo Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Anna-Maria and Stephen Kellen Foundation Inc C/O Joel E Sammet & Co LLP · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Goldstone Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization RobyDodd Family Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from RobyDodd Family Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • The Child and Family Guidance Center Inc: 86% of income from government
  • World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals: 67% of income from government
  • Women's Business Development Council Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Jericho Partnership Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The New American Dream Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Act of Connecticut: 1% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to RobyDodd Family Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 69 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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