How much did STAMFORD ROTARY TRUST FUND grant in FY2023?

Housing & Shelter$358kHuman Services$192kEducation$120kPhilanthropy$106kArts & Culture$70kYouth Development$58kEnvironment$50kCrime & Legal$45kRecreation & Sports$23kOther$363k

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

2019

mentalsuccessmusicachievehealthlivesstudents

2021

productiveabusesafeeducatesustainpreservationpark

2022

assistsjewishpreventionideaseducatepotentialsocial

2023

buildingpreventionfoodfree

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2023 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

Under $10k11 grants · $28k
$250k+1 grant · $333k

$2,500

Median grant

States reached

$2.2M

Total assets

Largest grants

PACIFIC HOUSE INC$333,333
CT YANKEE COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA$2,500
NEW COVENANT CENTER (CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD CTY)$2,500
CLOTHES TO KIDS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC$2,500
MOTHERS FOR OTHERS INC$2,500
TURN OF RIVER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$2,500
NEW NEIGHBORHOODS INC$2,500
WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC$2,500
FOOD RESCUE US$2,500
THE MAYOR'S YOUTH EMPLOYMENT PROGRAM$2,500
STAMFORD SPARTANS YOUTH FOOTBALL$2,500
HOME FRONT INC$2,500

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–23, $192k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 11% of STAMFORD ROTARY TRUST FUND’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

STAMFORD ROTARY TRUST FUNDlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.3M · 44 repeat orgs$133k to everyone else

44 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2023, 34 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.3M

$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%

+44%

Still filing today

93%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationPhilanthropyArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

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

PH
PACIFIC HOUSE INC
4× · 2018–2025 · $343k · revenue +100%
UW
UNITED WAY OF WESTERN CT (STAMFORD CRADLE TO CAREER)
4× · 2018–2022 · $55k · revenue +16%
NC
NEW COVENANT CENTER (CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD CTY)
5× · 2018–2023 · $40k · revenue +25%

Funded once

HD
HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue +104%
FO
FRATERNAL ORDER OF THE UMBRELLA INCgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $13k · revenue +133%
AH
AT HOME IN DARIENgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +32%

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.

Stamford Partnership Inc

The stamford partnership is a public/private partnership working to enhance the quality of life for those who live and work in stamford connecticut

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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

Stamford Health Inc

Stamford health, inc. is a supporting organization whose mission is to support its affiliate organizations: the stamford hospital and shmg.

Health

Southfield Children's Center

To provide quality childcare for children living in the state of connecticut.

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The Italian Center of Stamford Inc

The organization provides educational, recreational, charitable, cultural and social programs and facilities to members and the general public.

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Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

To develop and advocate public policies to allow for decent and affordable housing in ct.

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Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut Inc

Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut Inc. SLS empowers low-income people in Connecticut to obtain justice by providing tools to address their civil legal needs. SLS provides its clients with high volume brief or in-depth legal advice…

Crime & Legal

Connecticut Association for

The connecticut association for community action and its member agencies are a statewide network that strengthens communities, empowers families, promotes public policy, develops leaders and implements strategies that address the causes…

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Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services

Social Venture Partners Connecticut Inc

Advancing equitable access to a high quality education and a sustainable livelihood in Connecticut.

Human Services

Connecticut Court Appointed Special

Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.

Crime & Legal

Connstep Inc

To help ct manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques.

Community Improvement

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mill River Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Fjc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 30 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.0%0/76

the rest of the field

595/6,377

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

06the grantee network

66 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

66/66

Grantees still filing

49/66

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Housing & Shelter$358,333Other$480,625Human Services$192,000Education$120,400Philanthropy$105,900Arts & Culture$70,000Youth Development$57,604

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 FoundationCT86.5× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & · Claire L Helsing Foundation · Impact 100 Fairfield County · Viking Global Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Louis J Casale Jr Charitable Foundation · Savings Bank of Danbury 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 organisation STAMFORD ROTARY TRUST FUND 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

27get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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: ROTARY INTERNATIONAL STAMFORD.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 066047075 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 ROTARY INTERNATIONAL STAMFORD, 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.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 11% 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 Stamford Rotary Trust Fund?

Find your warmest path to Stamford Rotary Trust Fund 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.

STAMFORD ROTARY TRUST FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

66 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Stamford Rotary Trust Fund?

More from the funding graph

STAMFORD ROTARY TRUST FUND

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

66 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Stamford Rotary Trust Fund?

More from the funding graph