· Private foundation
The Margaret Dunn Smith 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 clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WHEATON COLLEGE | $25,000 |
| EQUANIMITAS HEALTH FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| THE UNQUOWA SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| B CURED | $1,500 |
| HIGH FIVES FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $500 |
| MADISON EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $150 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% of your 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.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 3 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k 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
WHEATON COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $363k · revenue +46%- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC4× · 2021–2025 · $3k · revenue +64%
- TCTHE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER WATERBURY CONNECTICUT INC4× · 2017–2020 · $2k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- BCBURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $10k · revenue -48%
- HBHARTFORD BISHOPS' FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $10k
- LALITCHFIELD AID OF CJRone grant, 2019 · $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.
To help connecticut manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques to become more competitive, supporting the growth of connecticut economy.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The organization is a local chamber of commerce. the chamber attempts to stimulate growth of businesses in the greater danbury, connecticut area.
To stimulate and support economic and housing development within the communities of the city of waterbury.
The watkins college of art challenges individuals to develop their talent, refine their creative practice, and dedicate their lives to advancing culture through the illuminating power of art.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
The wcsu foundation, inc. operates exclusively to solicit all forms of donations and disburses such funds to aid, supplement, improve and enlarge the educational, cultural and research facilities and activities of western connecticut state…
Provide to its members information, services and special events to expand, promote and develop new business in the greater new haven, connecticut region
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
Business working together to promote regional prosperity and community vitality.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wheaton College and the most unlike its peers is B Cured Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 24 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 WHEATON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BURLINGTON CITY ARTS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERSIDE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER WATERBURY CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds B CURED INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE MEMORIAL CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
- Who funds NEXTSTEP FITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERHEART INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON HOSE CO 1 INC P O BOX 573 ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INVENTION CONVENTION ↗
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 Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · 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 Margaret Dunn Smith 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.
- Madison Hose Co 1 Inc P O Box 573 — 7% of income from government
- Burlington City Arts Foundation Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wheaton College — 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.
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