· Private foundation
Stamford Woman's Club Inc
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 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 $10k14 grants · $31k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FUTURE 5 | $30,000 |
| STAMFORD EMS AND SENIOR CENTER | $9,000 |
| JM WRIGHT TECHNICAL SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $3,000 |
| WOMENS MENTORING PROGRAM | $2,500 |
| FERGUSON LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| INSPIRICA | $1,500 |
| STAMFORD HISTORY CENTER | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER | $1,000 |
| WESTHILL HIGH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| CURTAIN CALL | $1,000 |
| WHEEL IT FORWARD | $1,000 |
| STAMFORD TROY SOFTBALL | $500 |
| SILVER SOURCE | $500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 60% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein 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 — 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 +24% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 22 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- F5FUTURE 5 INC5× · 2021–2025 · $106k · revenue +65%
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER6× · 2019–2025 · $10k · revenue +47%
- PTPERSON TO PERSON INC3× · 2021–2023 · $9k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- SHSTAMFORD HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $15k
- AAITEone grant, 2020 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $1k
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.
To inspire, support, and certify sustainability actions by connecticut towns and cities.
To make books, publications and electronic materials available to the public
To promote and encourage the understanding and appreciation of the stamford business community.
To entertain, educate and enrich the diverse population of stamford, and fairfield county.
We are a local chapter that is affiliated with the CFA Institute and share a common goal to promote the highest. We offer high quality programs on topics that provide opportunities for our members and extended community to expand their…
Historic preservation for the town of stratford
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
To provide fire, medical and other emergency services
A safe, loving, and inclusive learning community where children, families, and staff feel welcome, accepted, and supported and where individuals are empowered to contribute their unique experiences and interests.
The milford arts council shall support and foster artistic, cultural and educational opportunities for the benefit of the greater milford community through the creation of environments and programs for artists to work and present; as well…
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Food Bank of Lower Fairfield County Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Silversource Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 51 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 FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE FERGUSON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CURTAIN CALL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE INC ↗
- Who funds TROUT UNLIMITED MIANUS CHAPTER ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD TROY SOFTBALL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD SENIOR CENTERINC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds THE STAMFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Leon N Lapine Residuary Trust · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organization Stamford Woman's Club 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.
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Stamford Senior Centerinc — 16% of income from government
- Project Music Inc — 14% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Ballet School of Stamford — 2% of income from government
- Curtain Call 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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