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Seherr-Thoss Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $8k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $159k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT #20 | $109,372 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| LOURDES OF LITCHFIELD #2 | $15,499 |
| CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF LITCHFIELD | $10,000 |
| ARETHUSA FARM FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MILTON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| MILTON PUBLIC HALL ASSOCIATION | $8,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income 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 — 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 +119% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2025, 9 since wound down; 6 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, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $203k 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
- GCGREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC2× · 2017–2022 · $55k · revenue +422%
- SBSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC5× · 2017–2023 · $47k · revenue +119%
- PTPRIME TIME HOUSE INC3× · 2017–2020 · $43k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- RSREGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT #6one grant, 2022 · $100k
- LCLITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INCone grant, 2020 · $83k · revenue -22%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $70k
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.
Museum
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Provide housing for individuals of modest means.
Connecticut Land Conservation Council, Inc.s mission is to elevate and strengthen land conservation in Connecticut.
Litchfield health and wellness resources, inc.(lhwr) is committed to the residents of litchfield by providing support and assistance that will promote and encourage a healthy lifestyle. by working in partnership with local health care…
To identify, preserve and promote the natural, agricultural, scenic, recreational, historic, and cultural resources of Litchfield County, Connecticut and to work to conserve them for current and future generations by preserving and…
The Candlewood Valley Regional Land Trust protects open spaces that contribute to the Candlewood Valley iconic rural New England character.
The mission of the Center is to provide affordable, adult housing and vital community services to promote health and independence
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Litchfield Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friendly Hands Food Bank Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 36 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 LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC ↗
- Who funds KidsPlay Childrens Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds PRIME TIME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD HILLS ROWING CLUB ↗
- Who funds GOSHEN PLAYERS INC ↗
- Who funds The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD CEMETERY ASSN INVESTMENT ↗
- Who funds Arethusa Farm Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CAMP MOHAWK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD HILLS CHORE SERVICE ↗
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: Seherr-Thoss Charitable Trust · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · McFadden Family Foundation · Crosswicks Foundation Ltd · Francis J and Louisa J Oneglia Foundation Inc · Torrington Savings Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Littman Family 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 Seherr-Thoss Foundation 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.
- Prime Time House Inc — 50% of income from government
- Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 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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