· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 2% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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
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.
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.
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.
How this is measured
12 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. 12 of the 24 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE MEMORIAL CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEXTSTEP FITNESS INC ↗
- Who funds MADISON HOSE CO 1 INC P O BOX 573 ↗
- Who funds ELDERHEART INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INVENTION CONVENTION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Margaret Dunn Smith Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Margaret Dunn Smith Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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