· Private foundation
The Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio
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 $10k52 grants · $229k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $182k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $336k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARVER CENTER | $221,000 |
| NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $65,000 |
| GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY | $50,000 |
| NORWALK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| YMCA | $25,000 |
| ATHLIFE FOUNDATION INC | $15,000 |
| HOLYOKE CANOE CLUB | $15,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT | $12,000 |
| THE WOMENS FUND OF WESTERN MA | $10,000 |
| PUBLIC HEALTH INSTITUTE | $10,000 |
| DOMUS KIDS | $10,000 |
| CHILDRENS MUSEUM OF HOLYOKE INC | $10,000 |
| PIONEER VALLEY CHINESE IMMERSION CHARTER SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| FAIRFIELD COUNTY SPORTS COMMISSION | $10,000 |
| THE JIMMY MCGRATH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $408k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 99% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.
113 repeat relationships: 55 still active in FY2025, 58 since wound down; 11 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $67k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VAVERMONT ACADEMY8× · 2017–2024 · $405k · revenue +38%
- GIGIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY5× · 2021–2025 · $205k · revenue +64%
- PCPORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC2× · 2017–2018 · $198k · revenue +94%
Funded once
- FKFATHER KEZAN OPENING DOORSone grant, 2020 · $15k
- FFFIBROBAMELLER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $13k
- HSHANNAH STORM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -6%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…
To provide excellence and access in private higher education to those who seek to expand their knowledge and prepare themselves for meaningful, educated lives and for service to their communities and the world.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
How this is measured
88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 88 of the 176 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 VERMONT ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC OF THE VALLEY ↗
- Who funds PORT CHESTER CARVER CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST LUKE'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds BELLOWS FALLS SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Carlos G Otis Health Care Center ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FALL MOUNTAIN FRIENDLY MEALS ↗
- Who funds JIMMY MCGRATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE DROP IN CENTER INC OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds KIDS HELPING KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S MUSEUM AT HOLYOKE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF CAPE COD INC ↗
- Who funds ATHLETE ALLY INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTINA'S HOUSE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN GROUP HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY SPORTS COMMISSION INC ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Synchrony Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · The Morris Family Foundation · Jeniam Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Key Program Incorporated: 86% of income from government
- Homework House Inc: 38% of income from government
- Girls Inc of the Valley: 30% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc: 17% of income from government
- Levo International Inc: 10% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
- Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc: 5% of income from government
- Sound Life Connections Inc: 3% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- St Luke's Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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