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The Rhoades-Robinson Fund
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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $71k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHORE SERVICE | $15,000 |
| REGION ONE REVOLVING FUN | $15,000 |
| SHARON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $10,750 |
| SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT | $10,000 |
| SHARON HOUSING TRUST INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HISTORIC SHARON BURYING GROUND | $8,750 |
| HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHAR | $7,500 |
| AMERICAN LEGION | $5,000 |
| THE SHARON CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $5,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH EPISCOPAL | $5,000 |
| ST KATERI CARING FUND | $5,000 |
| THE SHARON DAY CARE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| THE SHARON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $5,000 |
| SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +54% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 9 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, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- THTHE HISTORIC SHARON BURYING GROUND INC8× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +529% · 33% of their budget
- HLHOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC8× · 2017–2025 · $83k · revenue +113%
- CSCHORE SERVICE INC6× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +54%
Funded once
- HVHOUSATONIC VALLEY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $15k
- OWOLIVER WOLCOTT TECHNICAL HIGH SCHOOLone grant, 2021 · $5k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT (LEONARDO VILLANES)one grant, 2018 · $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.
The purpose of the trust is to protect and conserve land in the town of sharon ct
Research Local History
The mission of the sharon communty development corporation is to drive community and economic development
The mission of the Sharon Historical Society is to make all people aware of our history by linking the past with the present in order to inform them of our future. The Sharon Historical Society exists to inspire people's understanding that…
Community trust
To provide facilities to play golf and other recreational activities. the club maintains a clubhouse with dining facilities for the use and enjoyment of its members.
Provide golf recreation to its members
We are an early childhood organization that serves preschool children and families in two locations: the Sharon Cooperative School and the Cooperative Nature School; together these schools form the Cooperative Learning Community. We offer…
Affordable housing for salisbury ct
To provide quality child care
The sharon foundation exists solely for the benefit of the presbyterian home at charlotte, inc. (d/b/a the sharon at southpark) and its residents.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sharon Historical Society Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Equus Effect Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 29 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 THE HISTORIC SHARON BURYING GROUND INC ↗
- Who funds HOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC ↗
- Who funds CHORE SERVICE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds SHARON HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE EQUUS EFFECT 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: Walter and Phyllis Ann Borten Foundation · The Hallingby Family Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Peter and Helen Haje Foundation · MJPM Foundation · The Mortimer & Barbara Klaus Family Foundation · Low Road Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Rhoades-Robinson Fund 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.
- The Equus Effect Inc — 16% 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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