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ROWAYTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC
The mission of the rowayton civic association is to enrich the lives of rowayton and norwalk residents and neighbors through providing cultural programs, educational services, and supporting local communities initiatives.
$131k
Granted FY2024
8
Grants
1
Communities
$30k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of ROWAYTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2020
covid relief
2022
academicchildren youthdomestic violenceparentsprotectioneducation childrenfree
2023
academicsartschildren youthprotectionfreeopendomestic violence
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 8 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k4 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$288k
Total assets
Largest grants
- FRIENDS OF BAYLEY BEACH$30,000
- ROWAYTON FIRE DEPARTMENT$20,000
- ROWAYTON LIBRARY$13,380
- ROWAYTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL$10,000
- THE CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK$8,000
- BRIEN MCMAHON HIGH SCHOOL$8,000
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE$7,000
- ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER$6,500
02The need
04
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 cost of living 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$271k · 9 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
9
2
Total granted
$271k
$14k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+29%
+19%
Still filing today
78%
100%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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
- RFRowayton Fire Dept3× · 2022–2024 · $44k · revenue +202%
- RLRowayton Library3× · 2022–2024 · $37k · revenue +7%
- RERowayton El School3× · 2022–2024 · $37k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- PTPerson To Personone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +19%
- ODOpen Doorone grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue -20%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Rochester Public Library
To engage the community in life-long learning for all through equal access to information, technology, gathering spaces and expert staff.
Education
2
Southeastern Connecticut Television Inc
Offer public access tv to southeastern ct
Arts & Culture
3
United Way of Connecticut Inc
The mission of united way of connecticut is to help the people of connecticut to thrive through trusted partnerships and innovative solutions.
Philanthropy
4
Disability Rights Connecticut Inc
Drct's mission is to advocate, educate, investigate and pursue legal, administrative, and other appropriate remedies to advance and protect the civil rights of individuals with disabilities to participate equally and fully in all facets of…
Civil Rights
5
Avery Copp Museum
The Avery-Copp Museum celebrates, preserves, and documents the historic home, its collection, and the grounds belonging to the Avery and Copp families in Groton, Connecticut. Our purpose is to engage the public in learning about history of…
Arts & Culture
6
Avon Theatre Film Center Inc
Promote and foster a public appreciation of the cinematic arts, including the exhibition of educational films and films of independent and/or emerging filmmakers.
Arts & Culture
7
Windham Regional Community Council
Windham regional community council, inc (wrcc) is committed to improving the health and social well-being of the residents of eastern connecticut.
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8
Readyct Inc
Readyct works to advance academic excellence and career-connected learning for all public school students in connecticut through collaboration with business, civic, and education leaders.
Education
9
Riverton Free Library Association
—
10
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc
We are ct's only locally owned media organization producing tv, radio, print and internet content with a mix of educational, new, public affairs, children's and entertainment programming.
Arts & Culture
11
Rochester Child Care Center Inc
To provide high quality and affordable child care to working families within the community.
Human Services
12
Rochester Contemporary Art Center Inc
To create dialogue and build community through contemporary art exhibitions and related programs
Arts & Culture
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shakespeare On the Sound Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
9 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$174,335Human Services$47,500Public Safety & Disaster$44,000Arts & Culture$35,200Philanthropy$7,000Housing & Shelter$7,000
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.
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.
Fairfield County's Community FoundationCT13.6× affinity4 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 organisation ROWAYTON CIVIC ASSOCIATION 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.
2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: Rowayton Fire Dept.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.0× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 066059177 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on Rowayton Fire Dept, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 15% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Rowayton Civic Association Inc?
Find your warmest path to Rowayton Civic Association Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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