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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 you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 55% of THE RICHARD & BARBARA WHITCOMB FOUNDATIO’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
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 |
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.
Your 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 your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +19% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you 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
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
- 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
- HSHANNAH STORM FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2023 · $13k · revenue -6%
- FFFIBROBAMELLER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $13k
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 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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Key Program Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Bayada Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
88 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, 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; 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 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 FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds OUR PLACE DROP IN CENTER INC OUR PLACE DROP-IN CENTER ↗
- 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 ↗
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: 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
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 Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio 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 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
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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