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The Helen and Sidney Witty 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.

$42k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
19
Grants FY2025
21
Organizations funded FY2024
5%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$10,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 51
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
8
Total assets, FY2025
$825k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 5% of the organizations The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1000 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
HealthArts & CulturePhilanthropyAnimalsEducationInternationalOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving19$42k32%
FY202421$43k5%
FY202322$37k14%
FY202232$47k44%
FY202151$55k67%
FY202035$54k77%
FY201830$38kn/a
87% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Education$53kHealth$43kHuman Services$37kEnvironment$30kArts & Culture$19kYouth Development$15kAnimals$11kPublic Safety & Disaster$10kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
MN
IL
NY
MA
OR
NJ
CT
RI
CA
MO
KY
VA
AZ
AR
NC
DC
OK
TX
FL

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 54 grantees
All grantees of The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Dalton Schools Inc$30,10060%
Westchester Land Trust Inc$28,72060%
Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc$25,00060%
The V Foundation$8,50060%
New York Public Radio$7,82060%
Bowdoin College$6,50030%
World Central Kitchen Inc$6,00050%
Publicolor Inc$5,51040%
Boomer Esiason Foundation$4,98830%
Allpaths Family Building Inc$4,00050%
Gifts of Love Inc$4,00030%
Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club$2,66020%
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center$2,50010%
Granby Ambulance Association Inc$2,50050%
Storycorps Inc$2,01630%
Autism Speaks Inc$2,00020%
Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc$2,00020%
Every Org$2,00010%
Kind Inc$1,50020%
The Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall$1,50010%
Pilots to the Rescue Inc$1,50020%
Kma Foundation Inc$1,4511n/a
Paws 2 Help Inc$1,00010%
Granby Education Foundation Inc$1,00011%
Marine Toys for Tots Foundation$1,00010%
Caramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc$1,00010%
Foodshare Inc$1,00010%
Connecticut Humane Society$1,00010%
Dj Henry Dream Fund Inc$1,00010%
Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc$1,00010%
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc$1,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$1,00010%
Stand With Ukraine$1,0001n/a
Connecticut Children's Foundation Inc$1,00010%
Fund for Park Avenue New York Inc$75020%
Globalgiving Foundation Inc$50010%
Endeavor Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc$50010%
Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc$50010%
The Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights$50010%
Renbrook School Inc$50010%
Masonic Charity Foundation of CT$50010%
Wildlife Warriors USA Inc$50010%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc$50010%
Bedford Riding Lanes Association$30010%
The Bedford Historical Societyinc$2501n/a
Bedford Playhouse Inc$25010%
The Summer Camp Inc$25010%
Pratt Institute$25010%
Connecticut Freemasons Foundation Inc$25010%
Natural Resources Defense Council Inc$25010%
American Heart Association Inc$15010%
The Frick Collection$14010%
The American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$10010%
Shed NYC Inc$10010%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 61 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetDalton Schools Inc: $30,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWestchester Land Trust Inc: $28,720 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetFidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc: $25,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetThe V Foundation: $8,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $7,820 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBowdoin College: $6,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Central Kitchen Inc: $6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPublicolor Inc: $5,510 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBoomer Esiason Foundation: $4,988 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAllpaths Family Building Inc: $4,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGifts of Love Inc: $4,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKips Bay Boys & Girls Club: $2,660 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSaint Francis Hospital and Medical Center: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGranby Ambulance Association Inc: $2,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetStorycorps Inc: $2,016 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Speaks Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEvery Org: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKind Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPilots to the Rescue Inc: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPaws 2 Help Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGranby Education Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMarine Toys for Tots Foundation: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCaramoor Center for Music & the Arts Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFoodshare Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Humane Society: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDj Henry Dream Fund Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Children's Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFund for Park Avenue New York Inc: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGlobalgiving Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEndeavor Therapeutic Horsemanship Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBroadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Young Center for Immigrant Childrens Rights: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRenbrook School Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMasonic Charity Foundation of CT: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWildlife Warriors USA Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBedford Riding Lanes Association: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBedford Playhouse Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Summer Camp Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPratt Institute: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Freemasons Foundation Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNatural Resources Defense Council Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Heart Association Inc: $150 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 51.

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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.

Aetna Foundation IncCT18.1× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · Lanbro Foundation · The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program

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.

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About The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc

How much does The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc give?
The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $42,016 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 51 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (16%), Health (13%), Human Services (11%).
Who are The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Dalton Schools Inc ($30k), Westchester Land Trust Inc ($29k), Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc ($25k).
Does The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, Lanbro Foundation, The Donna and Marvin Schwartz Foundation.
Where is The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc based?
The Helen and Sidney Witty Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 119 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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