· Private foundation
The Weatherstone 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 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
- $10k–50k17 grants · $275k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Noroton Volunteer Fire Dept | $100,000 |
| Darien EMS - Post 53 | $100,000 |
| Utah Autism Academy | $20,000 |
| H&L Hope Foundation | $20,000 |
| Neighborhood House | $20,000 |
| Norwalk Police Fund | $17,500 |
| Darien Arts Center | $17,500 |
| National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund | $17,500 |
| Mutts with a Mission | $17,500 |
| Vested Interest in K9's Inc | $17,500 |
| First Congregational Church of Darien | $17,500 |
| Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue | $17,500 |
| Darien Police Association | $17,500 |
| St Jude Children's Research Hospital | $17,500 |
| Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary | $17,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY19–25, $41k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 51% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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.
25 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 6 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; $85k 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
- DEDARIEN EMS POST 53 INC4× · 2020–2025 · $420k · revenue +88%
- UAUTAH AUTISM ACADEMY6× · 2020–2025 · $290k · revenue +52%
- DADARIEN ARTS CENTER INC6× · 2018–2025 · $88k · revenue +28%
Funded once
- SGST GEORGE'S SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $25k
- TQTHE QUEEN ELIZABETH II SEPTEMBER 11TH MEMORIAL GARDEN INCone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -81%
- TOTails of Hope Foundationone grant, 2018 · $1k
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.
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
Our mission is to strengthen disaster response in america by rescuing and recruiting dogs and partnering them with firefighters and other first responders to find people buried alive in the wreckage of disasters.
Our mission is to save urgent dogs from high risk shelters and providing the care they need until we can place them in permanent loving homes. also through outreach and education.
Hero Dogs improves the quality of life of our nations heroes and enhances the services of community organizations by placing assistance dogs with customized training & lifetime support.
A small rescue group operating in the new york area that only rescues dogs from high kill shelters and southern rescues. this means a majority of dogs admitted there are euthanized due to lack of space. we very rarely take in owner…
Friends for animal rescue ny, inc. is a nonprofit organization that furthers the interest of animals in the new york state area and improves their quality of life by supporting medical care, enrichment activities, training and…
To serve the special operations community, families, and k-9 military dogs, as well as law enforcement and contract working dogs. when possible, these canines are placed in forever homes.
The mission of city dogs city kitties rescue is to rescue dogs and cats from high-kill shelters and adopt them to loving, permanent families in the washington, dc metropolitan area. city dogs city kitties rescue is able to accomplish this…
Animal rescues. pet adoption center. shelter cruelty victims. farm animals. wildlife refuge. spay/neuter. humane education. youth work. grief counseling. human health via pets.
Established in 1974, the organization's mission is to find responsible homes for dogs and cats and to encourage all dog and cat owners to spay and neuter their pets.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Foundation for Rescued Animals Dba Tiger Creek Animal Sanctuary and the most unlike its peers is H&L Hope - a Gtma 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 29 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 8% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 45 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 DARIEN EMS POST 53 INC ↗
- Who funds UTAH AUTISM ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds DARIEN ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds H&L HOPE - A GTMA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR RESCUED ANIMALS DBA TIGER CREEK ANIMAL SANCTUARY ↗
- Who funds MUTTS WITH A MISSION ↗
- Who funds The Noroton Fire Department Incorporated ↗
- Who funds DARIEN FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN POLICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELS LANDING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VMR RESEARCH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICERS MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood House Association ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Police Fund Incorporated ↗
- Who funds VESTED INTEREST IN K9S INC ↗
- Who funds HUMANE SOCIETY OF UTAH ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE REHABILITATION CENTER OF NORTHERN UTAH ↗
- Who funds BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Crimson Collective ↗
- Who funds THE QUEEN ELIZABETH II SEPTEMBER 11TH MEMORIAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds DARIEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: The Darien Foundation Inc · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Weatherstone Family Foundation Inc 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.
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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