· Private foundation
The Dawn and Jeff Padovan Family Foundation
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 FY2018–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC | $500 |
| NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC | $200 |
| NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION | $100 |
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 (FY19–23, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +58% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 6 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200 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
- SASTAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC3× · 2021–2023 · $3k · revenue +797%
- FOFRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC2× · 2023–2025 · $1k · revenue +50%
- ABA BETTER CHANCE OF WILTON INC2× · 2020–2023 · $450 · revenue +109%
Funded once
- SSSOUTH SALEM PRESBYTERIAN CHURCHone grant, 2021 · $1k
- SJST JOSEPH AND ST LADISLAUS PARISHone grant, 2024 · $500
- FOFriends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Incone grant, 2021 · $500 · revenue -7%
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 provide those in need with emergency food by working together with community members, leaders, and local businesses and organizations to gather, store, and distribute goods; to offer compassionate help as we respect the dignity of each…
Preservation of open space in watertown, ct; maintenance of owned and conserved properties and public education of enviromental issues.
Winchester land trust works to preserve the rural character and natural resources of the winchester ct area and to educate the community about the benefits of land conservation and balanced growth
Volunteer ambulance association that provides emergency medical services and emergency response and transportation for sick and injured in wolcott, ct
Conservation of ecological systems and natural settings while providing environmental education and recreation.
Support weston ems, inc. provides funding and other support to weston volunteer ems, llc
The weston volunteer fire department provides fire protection and emergency medical services (ambulance services).
to prevent the loss of life and to control or reduce the loss of property by applying all of our knowledge and resources.
To serve the town of washington, ct by providing professional and compassionate emergency medical services
The Company is organized to protect life and property, suppress fire, provide emergency medical services, rescue operations, hazardous materials response, education and fire prevention, fire inspection, and any other activity deemed…
To maintain wilton historical society's collection of historic buildings, care and conservation of antiques and artifacts. exhibits and educational programs and events to educate the public of all ages on wilton's history.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wilton Volunteer Ambulance Corps Inc and the most unlike its peers is Animals in Distress Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 STAY AT HOME IN WILTON INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE OF WILTON INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF WILTON INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON GARDEN CLUB ↗
- Who funds WILTON VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PET ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ANIMALS IN DISTRESS INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON FIRE & EMS INC ↗
- Who funds WILTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds Wilton Land Conservation Trust ↗
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.
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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 The Dawn and Jeff Padovan Family 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.
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- Friends of Ambler Farm Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wilton Library Association 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.