· Private foundation
The Gorman Family Foundation 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 FY2022–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $132k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
Anchored by a single position — about 99% of reported assets are held in Webster Bank Portfolio Holdings.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MISS PROTER'S SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $40,000 |
| CARLETON COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| SOUTHERN SCHOLARS INITIATIVE INC | $20,000 |
| CHOATE ROSEMARY SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| OPERATIONS SMILE | $15,000 |
| FIRST CONG CHURCH OF SUNDERLAND | $12,000 |
| RAY OF LIGHT FARM | $9,000 |
| MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN | $7,000 |
| CAT TALES | $5,000 |
| CANAL DOCK BOATHOUSE INC | $4,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN EQUALITY | $3,000 |
| POINT OF PRIDE | $3,000 |
| CT FOREST AND PARK ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY | $2,500 |
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 (FY23–25, $23k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 11% 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 +10% since the first grant, against -55% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 4 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k 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
- MPMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC4× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +22%
- WCWellesley College4× · 2022–2025 · $160k · revenue +3%
- CCCARLETON COLLEGE4× · 2022–2025 · $115k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- QQQUABOAG QUACUMQUASIT LAKE ASSOC INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -55%
- TYTRANS YOUTH EMERGENCY PROJECTone grant, 2024 · $3k
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The mission of the mspca is to protect animals, relieve their suffering, advance their health and welfare, prevent cruelty and work for a just and compassionate society.
Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The mission of our organization is to protect and restore Massachusetts rivers and streams.
Catskill animal sanctuary rescues farmed animals, ignites social change to end their exploitation, and champions vegan living.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Money Matters Inc and the most unlike its peers is Catales Incorporated Cat Tales Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 19 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 MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds CARLETON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE INC ↗
- Who funds CATALES INCORPORATED CAT TALES INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RAY OF LIGHT FARM INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds QUABOAG QUACUMQUASIT LAKE ASSOC INC ↗
- Who funds Campaign For Southern Equality ↗
- Who funds BROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS 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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · 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 The Gorman Family Foundation 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.
- Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated — 28% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Women's Money Matters 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.