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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 FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$30k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Education$147kArts & Culture$65kPublic Safety & Disaster$44kHuman Services$25kRecreation & Sports$20kHousing & Shelter$7kPhilanthropy$7k
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $102,880, the rows itemized in this filing. The $131,390 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $28,510 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k4 grants · $30k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$288k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.
$271k · 9 repeat orgs$44k to everyone else

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

+22%
+71%

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.

50%100%’20’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CulturePublic Safety & DisasterPhilanthropyHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • TR
    THE ROWAYTON HOSE COMPANY NO 1 INCORPORATED
    3× · 2022–2024 · $44k · revenue +52%
  • AO
    ASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $37k · revenue +153%
  • PC
    PTA CONNECTICUT CONGRESS ROWAYTON
    3× · 2022–2024 · $37k · revenue +285%

Funded once

  • PT
    PERSON TO PERSON INC
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +19%
  • TO
    THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $7k · revenue +71%
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
Riverton Free Library Association
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2
The Rowan Center Inc

We counsel victims and survivors as they process their experiences of sexual violence from the past, we advocate for them as they navigate the circumstances of the present, and we educate our communities to prevent sexual violence in the…

—
3
The Public Library of New London

The Public Library of New London is a private, not-for-profit institution that serves the needs of the New London community by providing free access to diverse ideas and information through a variety of library materials, services, and…

Education
4
Wheeler School & Library of North Stonington

Wheeler Library serves as the principal public library for the residents of North Stonington. It's mission is to bring people, information and ideas together.

—
5
Rockville Public Library

The library is the information, continuing education, and cultural center of the community of vernon rockville, ct. the library provides an environment and the tools necessary to meet every community resident's need for information,…

—
6
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
7
The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated

The Noroton Heights Fire Department, Incorporated provides fire and other emergency response services to its district within the Town of Darien, Connecticut, as well as providing mutual aid coverage to the other fire departments in town…

Health
8
Stratford Library Association

The mission of the stratford library is to empower and enrich our diverse community by providing access to innovative services, information and ideas.

—
9
Rockland Center for the Arts Inc

The mission of Rockland Center for the Arts is to inspire, educate, and enrich the community through creating, teaching, and presenting the arts, and to provide opportunities for all people to experience and participate in the cultural…

Arts & Culture
10
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.

Community Improvement
11
The Russell Library Company

To operate a free public library in the city of middletown, ct; to promote literacy and educational activities in connection with the library for the perpetual betterment and enjoyment of its inhabitants.

—
12
Rowayton Platform Tennis Association Inc

The rowayton platform tennis association (rpta) exists as a social and recreational club to provide exercise, recreation, and social engagement through the playing of the sport of platform tennis. platform tennis is a racket sport derived…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pta Connecticut Congress Rowayton; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORWALK PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $43,400 · OtherNORWALK PUBLIC SCHOOLSASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC: $37,435 · OtherASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON I…PTA CONNECTICUT CONGRESS ROWAYTON: $36,500 · OtherPTA CONNECTICUT CONGRESS ROWAYTONFRIENDS OF BAYLEY BEACH ROWAYTON: $30,000 · OtherFRIENDS OF BAYLEY BEACH ROWAYTONPTA CONNECTICUT INC: $27,000 · OtherPTA CONNECTICUT INCDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $24,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENCE…THE CARVER INC: $23,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARVER INCTHE ROWAYTON HOSE COMPANY NO 1 INCORPORATED: $44,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE ROWAYTON HO…SHAKESPEARE ON THE SOUND INC: $22,200 · Arts & CultureSHAKESPEARE …ROWAYTON ARTS CENTER: $13,000 · Arts & CultureROWAYTON ART…PERSON TO PERSON INC: $7,000 · PhilanthropyTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $7,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$174,335Human Services$47,500Public Safety & Disaster$44,000Arts & Culture$35,200Philanthropy$7,000Housing & Shelter$7,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE ROWAYTON HOSE COMPANY NO 1 INCORPORATED: $44,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE FREE LIBRARY AND READING ROOM OF ROWAYTON INC: $37,435 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetPTA CONNECTICUT CONGRESS ROWAYTON: $36,500 over 3y, 8.1% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $24,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CARVER INC: $23,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHAKESPEARE ON THE SOUND INC: $22,200 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetROWAYTON ARTS CENTER: $13,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT13.4× affinity4 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Rowayton Civic Association Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rowayton Civic Association Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 10%
  • The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Rowayton Arts Center: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
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.

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 12 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 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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