· Public charity
Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd Inc
The foundation's mission is to save lives, one swim lesson at a time and through water safety education.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $226,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $402,621 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $176,621 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $58k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $168k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRFIELD YMCA | $24,000 |
| YMCA OF LONG ISLAND | $16,000 |
| REGIONAL YMCA OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT | $16,000 |
| TRIDENT SWIM FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| WYCKOFF FAMILY YMCA | $15,000 |
| RYE YMCA | $12,000 |
| RIDGEWOOD YMCA | $10,000 |
| NORWALK RECREATION AND PARKS | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| BRONXWORKS INC | $10,000 |
| RISING TIDE EFFECT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITIES | $10,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CLIFTON | $8,000 |
| ASPHALT GREEN | $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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $383k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 70% 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 +22% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $101k 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
- RYREGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC6× · 2017–2024 · $190k · revenue +5%
- YOYMCA OF YONKERS5× · 2017–2022 · $155k · revenue +38%
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LONG ISLAND INC7× · 2017–2024 · $136k · revenue +22%
Funded once
CANDIDone grant, 2023 · $200k · revenue -5%- ICITHACA COLLEGEone grant, 2017 · $30k · revenue -9%
- GFGLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERSone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -100%
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 put christian principles into practice through programs that build healthy spirit, mind and body for all.
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The mission of the ymca of central new mexico is to put christian principles into practice through programs that build a healthy spirit, mind and body for all. for over 100 years, the ymca of central new mexico has served our community…
The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Men's Christian Association of Long Island Inc and the most unlike its peers is Gullabi Gulbenkian Foundation Inc. 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.
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 62 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
25 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. 25 of the 32 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 CANDID ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA OF YONKERS ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF LONG ISLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPHALT GREEN INC ↗
- Who funds WYCKOFF FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RYE NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF RIDGEWOOD NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CLIFTON INC ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc ↗
- Who funds NCH HEALTHCARE SYSTEM INC ↗
- Who funds TRIDENT SWIM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FOUNDATION FOR EATING DISORDERS ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BRONXWORKS INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSN OF RIDGWAY ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GREATER MISSOULA FAMILY YMCA ↗
- Who funds CAMP COURANT INC ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Montclair NEW JERSEY ↗
- Who funds Friends of Newtown Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds YMCA of Westfield NJ ↗
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: National Council of YMCAs of the USA · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · The Redwoods Group Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Jewish Communal Fund · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation America · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Stew Leonard III Water Safety Fd 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.
- Connecticut Institute for Communities Inc — 57% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Wyckoff Family Ymca — 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.