· Public charity
The William W Backus Hospital
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
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.
The 5 grants below total $45,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $111,422 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $65,922 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| A Better Way Foundation | $14,500 |
| Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation | $10,000 |
| ADL Connecticut | $10,000 |
| Madonna Place Inc | $5,500 |
| The Greater Norwich Area Chamber of Commerce | $5,500 |
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.
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.
To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.
Advance the economic, industrial, cultural and civic welfare of Northwest Connecticut by promoting the physical, economic and human resources of the area
The core purpose of the chamber is to develop beneficial relationships that serve and enhance a thriving regional business community.
The organization is a local chamber of commerce. the chamber attempts to stimulate growth of businesses in the greater danbury, connecticut area.
Promotion and support of commercial & civic awareness and activities in the greater norwalk area.
Business working together to promote regional prosperity and community vitality.
The Naugatuck Chamber's mission is to create strategic partnerships and alliances between businesses and their markets and to speak and act on their behalf on matters of public interest
Comprehensive programs to improve the business climate for service, manufacturing and retail businesses doing business in Fairfield, CT while preserving town's lifestyle.
The principal objective of the organization is to benefit the community by increasing employment opportunities and the establishment and expansion of business and industry for the citizens of new milford.
Receive and administer gifts, grants and contributions. assist local & state government leaders in community development programs.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Greater Norwich Area Chamber of Commerce and the most unlike its peers is American Heart Association 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 11 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 American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC ↗
- Who funds Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds GREATER NORWICH AREA CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds Goshen Agricultural Society Inc ↗
- Who funds Madonna Place 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: Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation 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 William W Backus Hospital 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.
- Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Inc — 23% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Greater Norwich Area Chamber of Commerce — 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.