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The Gorman Family Foundation Inc at a glance

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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.

$224k
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

Education$605kHealth$85kAnimals$43kReligion$42kFood & Nutrition$20kEnvironment$11kRecreation & Sports$10kArts & Culture$6kOther$0
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $132k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$7,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets

Anchored by a single position: about 99% of reported assets are held in Webster Bank Portfolio Holdings.

Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
POINT OF PRIDE$3,000
CAMPAIGN FOR SOUTHERN EQUALITY$3,000
CT FOREST AND PARK ASSOCIATION$3,000
AMERICARE$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%WOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS: $3k → 16%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $9k → 7%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $6k → 7%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$813k · 13 repeat orgs$18k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +10% since the first grant, against -55% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
2

Total granted

$813k
$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
-55%

Still filing today

69%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesRecreation & SportsInternationalAnimalsEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MP
    MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $175k · revenue +22%
  • WC
    Wellesley College
    4× · 2022–2025 · $160k · revenue +3%
  • CC
    CARLETON COLLEGE
    4× · 2022–2025 · $115k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • QQ
    QUABOAG QUACUMQUASIT LAKE ASSOC INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -55%
  • TY
    TRANS YOUTH EMERGENCY PROJECT
    one grant, 2024 · $3k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
2
Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals
3
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
4
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
5
Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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.

Animals
6
Foodshare Inc

Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.

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7
Wheaton College

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…

Education
8
Roger Williams University

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…

Education
9
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

—
10
Bartlett Arboretum Association Inc

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.

Environment
11
Massachusetts Rivers Alliance Inc

The mission of our organization is to protect and restore Massachusetts rivers and streams.

Environment
12
Catskill Animal Sanctuary Inc

Catskill animal sanctuary rescues farmed animals, ignites social change to end their exploitation, and champions vegan living.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Money Matters Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

13 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $175,000 · EducationMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INCWellesley College: $160,000 · EducationWellesley CollegeCARLETON COLLEGE: $115,000 · EducationCARLETON COLLEGECHOATE ROSEMARY SCHOOL: $80,000 · OtherCHOATE ROSEMARY SCHOOLSOUTHERN SCHOLARS INITIATIVE INC: $75,000 · OtherSOUTHERN SCHOLARS INITIATIVE IN…FIRST CONG CHURCH OF SUNDERLAND: $42,000 · OtherFIRST CONG CHURCH OF SUNDERLANDMERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC: $17,700 · OtherMERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC+5 more: $16,000 · Other+5 moreOPERATION SMILE INC: $85,000 · InternationalOPERATION S…CATALES INCORPORATED CAT TALES INCORPORATED: $23,000 · AnimalsRAY OF LIGHT FARM INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $2,500 · Human ServicesCanal Dock Boathouse Incorporated: $9,629 · Recreation & SportsCONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION: $5,600 · Recreation & SportsQUABOAG QUACUMQUASIT LAKE ASSOC INC: $5,000 · Environment
Education$450,000Other$230,700International$85,000Animals$23,000Human Services$22,500Recreation & Sports$15,229Environment$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $175,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWellesley College: $160,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON COLLEGE: $115,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE INC: $85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCATALES INCORPORATED CAT TALES INCORPORATED: $23,000 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetRAY OF LIGHT FARM INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC: $17,700 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetCanal Dock Boathouse Incorporated: $9,629 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION: $5,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetQUABOAG QUACUMQUASIT LAKE ASSOC INC: $5,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetBROOKLINE FOOD PANTRY INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S MONEY MATTERS INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Pfizer Foundation…Aetna Foundation IncThe Bank of America C…American Online Givin…Fidelity Investments …Donor Advised Charita…Amazonsmile Foundation
The Pfizer Foundation IncNY13.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Gorman Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gorman Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%8%15%22%30%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–30%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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