· Private foundation
Stich Charitable 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 FY2023–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $430k
- $250k+1 grant · $255k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC | $255,000 |
| DOG STAR RESCUE INC | $130,000 |
| WOMENS MENTORING NETWORK INC | $100,000 |
| WOOFGANG AND CO | $50,000 |
| CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INC | $50,000 |
| JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC | $50,000 |
| LIVEGIRL | $50,000 |
| JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC | $30,000 |
| FISH FRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF NORTHWESTER | $15,000 |
| AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER INC | $15,000 |
| JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC | $4,350 |
| WOMENS MENTORING NETWORK INC | $3,400 |
| INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE INC | $1,400 |
| JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC | $1,000 |
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 (FY25–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% 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.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $131k 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
- JLJESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC2× · 2024–2025 · $490k · revenue 0%
- CACATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INC2× · 2024–2025 · $285k
- DSDOG STAR RESCUE INC2× · 2024–2025 · $280k · revenue 0%
Funded once
- CSCOLLEGE STREET CAPITAL CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $24k
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 grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.
Together We Bake's mission is to provide a comprehensive workforce training and personal development program to help women gain self-confidence, transferable workforce skills, and invaluable hands-on experience which will allow them to…
Goodwill of western and northern ct (gwnc) strengthens communities by eliminating barriers to employment and maximizing the independence of all people served.
Tthe mission of the women's business development council (wbdc) is to support economic prosperity for women and strengthen communities through entrepreneurial and financial education services that create and grow sustainable jobs and…
Womens Coop is women helping women working together to improve lives families and our community. We foster an active network of support that provides much needed resources for career training education and life management.
Northwest regional workforce investment board, inc is a not-for-profit corporation organized to develop and oversee a complete system of services for the employment and training of connecticut's workforce, concentrating in danbury,…
Our mission is to help people to help themselves by contributing to the more efficient functioning of todays labor market by providing high quality employment and training.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Our Mission is to help women raise their self-esteem and achieve economic independence through sustained employment. Our Vision is to advance positive change in the lives of women, their families and the community, one woman at a time.
EWIB efficiently coordinates employment-related services in concert with a multitude of state and local agencies at benefit to both businesses and job-seekers. These services offer new opportunities and/or skills to the regional workforce,…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
The united way of meriden and wallingford is a volunteer-driven organization that redirects human and financial resources to create lasting change in our communities by supporting residents to gain an education and training sufficient to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fishfriends in Service to Humanity of and the most unlike its peers is Inner Compass Initiative Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 10 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 JESSE LEWIS CHOOSE LOVE MOVEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds DOG STAR RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds LiveGirl Inc ↗
- Who funds TEAM WOOFGANG & CO INC ↗
- Who funds FISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF ↗
- Who funds AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds INNER COMPASS INITIATIVE 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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Stich Charitable 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.
- Fishfriends in Service to Humanity of — 39% of income from government
- Area Congregations Together Inc — 30% of income from government
- Women's Mentoring Network Inc — 1% 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.