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The Werth 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
- Under $10k23 grants · $46k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $266k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $405k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COLUMBUS HOUSE | $100,000 |
| GAYLORD HOSPITAL 1 OF 2 | $75,000 |
| CT FOODSHARE | $75,000 |
| HIMALAYA CURRENTS | $55,000 |
| WOMENS HEALTH AT YALE | $50,000 |
| MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $40,000 |
| GATHER NEW HAVEN | $35,000 |
| CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER | $30,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS | $30,000 |
| HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICARES CA WILFIRES | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $23,000 |
| ELM SHAKESPEARE 2 OF 3 | $17,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $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 (FY22–25, $48k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
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 +8% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 14 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $242k 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
- CHCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC3× · 2022–2025 · $300k · revenue +7%
- MCMASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC4× · 2022–2025 · $200k · revenue +26%
- GHGaylord Hospital INC2× · 2022–2024 · $200k · revenue +11%
Funded once
- SFSCSU Foundationone grant, 2017 · $300k
- STSAVE THE SOUND SCSUone grant, 2024 · $136k
- SLSW Light House Beacon Point Preservationone grant, 2017 · $132k
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
Hartford Preservation Alliance's primary mission is to preserve and revitalize Hartford's unique architectural heritage and neighborhood character.
Our mission is to run a world-class urban park in the heart of stamford that serves as both an oasis in city life and a vibrant, diverse, green-space that inspires sound environmental practices and learning.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Ecology Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Himalaya Currents 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 37 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 162 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 COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HIMALAYA CURRENTS INC ↗
- Who funds MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Gaylord Hospital INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) ↗
- Who funds ART COUNCIL OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE 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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Peoples United Community Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven Inc
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 Werth 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.
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Farmington River Watershed Association Inc — 69% of income from government
- Bridges Healthcare Inc — 67% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Human Services Council Inc — 27% of income from government
- Massaro Community Farm Inc — 27% of income from government
- Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc — 14% of income from government
- Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc) — 11% of income from government
- New Haven Ecology Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% of income from government
- A Broken Umbrella Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Americares 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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