· Private foundation
Sayles & Maddocks Family Foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $52k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| American Red Cross | $30,000 |
| Wheaton College | $27,000 |
| Norwalk Hospital Fdn | $27,000 |
| Boothbay Region YMCA | $26,000 |
| United Way | $25,000 |
| Simmons University | $23,000 |
| Guide Dog Foundation | $10,000 |
| Walnut Hill School | $8,500 |
| Alzheimer's Association | $7,500 |
| Norwalk Senior Center | $7,000 |
| Unitarian Church of Westport | $6,000 |
| Middlesex School | $5,000 |
| Norwalk Youth Symphony | $4,000 |
| Norwalk Symphony Society | $4,000 |
| Wilson's Disease Association | $4,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $175k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
17 repeat relationships: 16 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
WHEATON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $187k · revenue +46%- ANAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +46%
- NHNorwalk Hospital Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $169k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- UCUnitarian Church of Estportone grant, 2023 · $5k
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.
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.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
Education and Research
To produce, in a humanistic tradition, health care professionals and biomedical knowledge that will enhance and extend the quality of life in our communities.
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.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
How this is measured
16 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. 16 of the 19 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIMMONS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Young Men's Christian Association Boothbay Region ↗
- Who funds THE WINCHENDON SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION FOR THE BLIND INC ↗
- Who funds WALNUT HILL CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds NORWALK SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NORWALK YOUTH SYMPHONY INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds Wilson Disease Association ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Sayles & Maddocks Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sayles & Maddocks Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc: 13% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Norwalk Youth Symphony Inc: 2% of income from government
- Simmons University: 1% of income from government
- Wheaton College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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