· Private foundation
The Whittingham Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2023 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 FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2022
- Under $10k3 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $122k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE-A-WISH CONNECTICUT | $36,667 |
| STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS | $25,000 |
| NORWALK HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| MILL RIVER COLLABORATION | $10,000 |
| STAMFORD DOLLARS FOR SCHOLARS | $10,000 |
| PALACE THEATER | $5,000 |
| THE BILLMEYER MEMORIAL FUND | $5,000 |
| THE AVON THEATRE | $1,500 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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.
15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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
- SCSTAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC5× · 2018–2022 · $135k · revenue +50%
- MRMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC5× · 2017–2022 · $50k · revenue +216%
- JCJWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $11k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- DHDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Incone grant, 2019 · $16k · revenue -18%
- TUTHE UMBRELLA CLUB INCgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $6k · revenue +337%
- DWDANNY WILLIAMS SCHOLARSHIP FUNDone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care
Northwell, inc. is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. northwell, inc. is organized and operated exclusively for the…
None
To improve the health and well-being of all people in the communities we serve.
To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
The sole purpose of the svhc foundation shall be to engage in development and fundraising activities exclusively for the support of the southwestern vermont health care corporation and affiliates.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mill River Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Silversource Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 26 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 STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALACE THEATER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds St Vincent's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds JWV COMMUNITY SCHOLARSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds THE UMBRELLA CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY HOSPICE HOUSE INC D/B/A FAIRFIELD COUNTY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF SILVERSOURCE 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: Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Ibm International Foundation · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 organization The Whittingham 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.
- Mill River Collaborative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Stamford Center for the Arts Inc — 18% of income from government
- The Palace Theater Group Inc — 12% 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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