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· Private foundation
THE WEATHERSTONE FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
This foundation does not accept unsolicited requests — it funds preselected organizations.
$360k
Granted FY2024
4
Grants
3
Communities
$300k
Largest
01What you fund
0161% classified
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2024.
Health$350kEducation$340kArts & Culture$75kAnimals$36kHuman Services$21kRecreation & Sports$20kCrime & Legal$100International$50Other$529k
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
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2019
firemedicalcaredogsdarien
2020
firecaremedical researchabused mistreatedmistreated catsdogsdarien
2021
firecaredogsabused mistreatedmistreated catsmedical researchchildren
2022
firedogsdarienchildren
2023
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Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 4 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k3 grants · $60k
- $250k+1 grant · $300k
$20,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Darien EMS - Post 53$300,000
- Utah Autism Academy$20,000
- Noroton Volunteer Fire Dept$20,000
- H&L Hope Foundation$20,000
02The need
04
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.
show:
Your human-services grants (FY19–22, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9% — the area typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.3M · 22 repeat orgs$95k to everyone else
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
22 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
22
16
Total granted
$1.3M
$55k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+33%
0%
Still filing today
50%
38%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
AnimalsArts & CultureHealthEducationHuman ServicesCrime & LegalOther
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 533× · 2020–2024 · $320k · revenue +57%
- UAUtah Autism Academy5× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +69%
- DADarien Arts Center5× · 2018–2022 · $70k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- SGST GEORGE'S SOCIETYone grant, 2018 · $25k
- ALAngels Landing Foundationone grant, 2022 · $20k
- TQThe Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden Incone grant, 2019 · $5k · revenue -86%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
1
Danbury Animal Welfare Society
Dedicated to improving the lives of animals in its community and beyond. daws provides rescue,shelter and care to cats & dogs in need and offers adoption counseling
Animals
2
Hero Dogs Inc
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.
Human Services
3
Land Trust of Darien Inc
Open space preservation in darien, connecticut
Environment
4
Dizzy Dog Animal Rescue
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.
Animals
5
Divers Alert Network
Dan helps divers in need with emergency medical information, assistance and referrals, and promotes dive safety through research, education, products, and services.
Recreation & Sports
6
National Disaster Search Dog Foundation
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.
Health
7
The Darien Foundation Inc
The darien foundation's mission is to provide grant funding for technology and capital projects that create opportunity for darien's youth, support town safety and security services, enhance the overall quality of life in darien, and…
Education
8
America's Vetdogs
To assist disabled veterans, active military personnel, first responders with disabilities, and those who have served our country honorably to live with dignity and independence. america's vetdogs trains and places guide dogs for veterans…
Public Benefit
9
Lucky Dog Animal Rescue
Animals
10
Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International
A people-centered approach to the conservation of gorillas and their habitats in Africa
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11
Dolphin Research Center Inc
Relationship between marine mammals and humans.
Animals
12
Little Angels Service Dogs
Training and placing assistance dog with disabled children and adults throughout the United States.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Law Enforcement Officers 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.
05the grantee network
17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$529,425Health$350,000Education$340,000Arts & Culture$75,250Animals$35,950Human Services$20,800Recreation & Sports$20,000
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 ↗
- Who funds Utah Autism Academy ↗
- Who funds H&L Hope- A GTMA Foundation ↗
- Who funds Darien Arts Center ↗
- Who funds Noroton Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds Darien Fire Department ↗
- Who funds VMR Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds Mutts with a Mission ↗
- Who funds Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Angels Landing Foundation ↗
- Who funds National Law Enforcement Officers Memorial Fund ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of Utah ↗
- Who funds The Queen Elizabeth II September 11th Garden Inc ↗
- Who funds Peaceful Valley Donkey Rescue ↗
- Who funds DARIEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE CHILDREN New York ↗
- Who funds OPERATION SMILE ↗
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.
The Darien Foundation IncCT13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: The Darien Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 organisation 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–10%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: H&L Hope- A GTMA Foundation.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
medium risk
4 years of Form 990 filings, still active.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 861452410 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on H&L Hope- A GTMA Foundation, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
- WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 49% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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How do I get to The Weatherstone Family Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to The Weatherstone Family Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines