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The Stoddard Family Foundation at a glance

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The Stoddard Family Foundation

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.

$110k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$349kHuman Services$251kPhilanthropy$84kEducation$15kHealth$13kAnimals$10kReligion$8kEnvironment$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $14k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $46k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION$50,000
WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER$30,500
GUILFORD ART CENTER$15,000
GUILFORD LAND CONSERVATION TRUST$5,000
GUILFORD KEEPING SOCIETY$5,000
RAY OF LIGHT FARM$2,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 3% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $4k → 7%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $2k → 7%RAY OF LIGHT FARM: $2k → 7%THE DUDLEY FUNDATION: $100 → 12%THE DUDLEY FOUNDATION: $100 → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
WI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
DC
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$635k · 35 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

35 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
29

Total granted

$635k
$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+37%

Still filing today

63%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthEnvironmentHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • RO
    RAY OF LIGHT FARM INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $8k · revenue +10%
  • TG
    THE GUILFORD KEEPING SOCIETY
    5× · 2018–2025 · $6k · revenue +48%
  • GL
    Guilford Land Conservation Trust Inc
    5× · 2017–2025 · $6k · revenue +258%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $5k
  • PA
    PATHFINDERS ASSOCIATES INC
    one grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -2%
  • DY
    DISCOVER YOUR PATH INC
    one grant, 2020 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Guilford Foundation
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2
Guilford College

To provide a transformative, practical, and excellent liberal arts education that produces critical thinkers in an inclusive, diverse environment, guided by quaker testimonies of community, equality, integrity, peace, and simplicity and…

Education
3
Nantucket Conservation Foundation Inc

The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…

Environment
4
Florence Griswold Museum Inc

The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.

Arts & Culture
5
Milford Historical Society
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6
Sandwich Conservation Trust

Preservation of natural or undeveloped land in sandwich, ma.

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7
Guilford Historical Society

non-profit association

Arts & Culture
8
Guilford Performance Lab Inc

The mission is to support the development of new performance works and to connect creation and presentation of contemporary performance work with residents of the communities we serve in rural Southeastern Vermont.

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9
Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc

The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…

Environment
10
Gloucester Fishing Community Preservation Fund Inc

Preserve and promote awareness of gloucesters fisheries, heritage, and the fabric of gloucester, massachusetts community;protecting and enhancing the port of gloucester and the ports infrastructure;and, in order to aid fishermen, serving…

Environment
11
Piscataquog Land Conservancy

The Piscataquog Land Conservancy is a nonprofit land conservation organization founded in 1970. Its purpose is to conserve the natural and scenic environment of the Piscataquog, Souhegan and Nashua River watershed communities of southern…

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12
Kennebunk Land Trust

Kennebunk Land Trust's mission is to permanently conserve and steward land to benefit natural and human communities.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Guilford Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dudley Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

37 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. 37 of the 66 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
26/37
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $250,000 · Arts & CultureWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INCTHE GUILFORD ART CENTER INC: $232,550 · Arts & CultureTHE GUILFORD ART CENTER INCTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $96,500 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE+8 more: $9,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC: $82,600 · OtherTHE GUILFORD FOUNDA…THE GUILFORD KEEPING SOCIETY: $6,350 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $5,000 · OtherPATHFINDERS ASSOCIATES INC: $5,000 · OtherDISCOVER YOUR PATH INC: $5,000 · Other+34 more: $27,880 · Other+34 moreLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $3,000 · EducationFRIENDS OF THE GUILFORD FREE LIBRARY: $2,800 · EducationSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $2,050 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $1,000 · EducationTRINITY COLLEGE: $750 · Education+1 more: $250 · EducationRAY OF LIGHT FARM INC: $7,500 · Human Services+1 more: $200 · Human ServicesGuilford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $6,200 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUND: $550 · EnvironmentGUILFORD FUND FOR EDUCATION INC: $3,300 · PhilanthropyGUILFORD COMMUNITY FUND: $450 · PhilanthropyDUDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $250 · PhilanthropyTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $2,000 · HealthOSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA FOUNDATION: $1,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $750 · Health
Arts & Culture$588,050Other$131,830Education$9,850Human Services$7,700Environment$6,750Philanthropy$4,000Health$3,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $250,000 over 9y, 6.1% of budgetTHE GUILFORD ART CENTER INC: $232,550 over 9y, 7.7% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $96,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC: $82,600 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetRAY OF LIGHT FARM INC: $7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GUILFORD KEEPING SOCIETY: $6,350 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetGuilford Land Conservation Trust Inc: $6,200 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetPATHFINDERS ASSOCIATES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGUILFORD FUND FOR EDUCATION INC: $3,300 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetLEWIS & CLARK COLLEGE: $3,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGUILFORD PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $2,850 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE GUILFORD FREE LIBRARY: $2,800 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSHORELINE ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $2,550 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetA PLACE OF HOPE SMALL DOG RESCUE INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTH KENT SCHOOL CORPORATION: $2,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetORCHESTRA NEW ENGLAND: $1,150 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOLD STURBRIDGE INC: $900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTRINITY COLLEGE: $750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNorthwest School of Wooden Boatbuilding: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKILLINGWORTH LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $450 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGUILFORD COMMUNITY FUND: $450 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKILLINGWORTH AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEGACY THEATRE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKILLINGWORTH LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Guilford Volunteer Fire Dept Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATIONAL TRUST FOR SCOTLAND FOUNDATION USA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Joe & Cindy Goldberg …MFUND IncThe Guilford Foundati…Connecticut Humanitie…The David W Knapp Cha…Eder Family Foundatio…Newalliance Foundatio…Watering Pond Foundat…The Community Foundat…Aetna Foundation IncRoslyn Milstein Meyer…The Pfizer Foundation…
Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation IncCT36.8× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · MFUND Inc · The Guilford Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Watering Pond Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Aetna Foundation Inc · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Stoddard Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Stoddard Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 130%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • Shoreline Arts Alliance Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Old Sturbridge Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Lewis & Clark College: 2% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • The Guilford Art Center Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre: 1% of income from government
  • The Legacy Theatre Inc: 1% of income from government
  • South Kent School Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Trinity College: 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
13get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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