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The Wenden Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k48 grants · $168k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $78k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DIRECT RELIEF | $77,500 |
| A BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCORPORATED | $16,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOOD BANK | $12,000 |
| ASAP MINISTRIES | $12,000 |
| NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $10,600 |
| THE DALTON SCHOOL | $10,000 |
| WASHINGTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| GUNN MEMORIAL LIBRARY & MUSEUM | $9,850 |
| STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC | $8,000 |
| EMPLOYEE HOLIDAY FUND | $7,500 |
| PUBLICOLOR | $7,500 |
| FRESH AIR FUND | $7,000 |
| CURE BLINDNESS PROJECT | $6,000 |
| CITY MEALS ON WHEELS | $5,000 |
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 (FY17–17, $3k) land where the poverty rate runs at 16%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% 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 +49% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
74 repeat relationships — 46 still active in FY2024, 28 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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
DIRECT RELIEF7× · 2017–2024 · $244k · revenue +94%
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $62k · revenue +34%- CCITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS7× · 2017–2024 · $53k · revenue +38%
Funded once
- SJSAINT JOHN'S FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · $8k
RAZOM INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -65%
MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INCone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +1%
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…
CITY REPORT, INC. serves the people of New York through independent journalism that answers their information needs and holds the powerful to account.
To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…
American gas association's (the association) mission is to develop and advocate for informed, innovative, and durable policy that fulfills our nation's energy needs, environmental aspirations and economic potential. we are committed to…
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is God's Love We Deliver Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hollister House Garden Inc. 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 39 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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.
95 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. 95 of the 142 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 DIRECT RELIEF ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITYMEALS-ON-WHEELS ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds BRIGHTFOCUS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds JASA CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLICOLOR INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds BRYN MAWR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FOUR FREEDOMS PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds ASAP MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ACKERMAN INSTITUTE FOR THE FAMILY ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERPRISE COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds DALTON SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYAN CATARACT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON PARK FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON ART ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HEART TO HEART INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds CONVERSATIONS ON THE GREENINC ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds THE HEARD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds Washington Volunteer Fire Dept 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: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Murray & Susan Haber Charitable Foundation · The Kestrel Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Dungannon Foundation Inc · Coleman Family Charitable Foundation · Arnhold Foundation Inc · Fjc · H & L Family Foundation Inc · The Jaffe Family Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Block Grausman Fund
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 Wenden Foundation 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.
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Enterprise Community Partners Inc — 22% of income from government
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
- Sherman Chamber Ensemble Inc — 6% of income from government
- Feeding South Florida Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Washington Art Association Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- After School Arts Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Faiths Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pilobolus Inc — 1% of income from government
- Village Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge 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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