· Private foundation
The Wimpfheimer 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 $10k18 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $150k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Johnny Cake Center | $16,200 |
| Stonington Free Library | $15,000 |
| Pawcatuck Neighborhood Center | $15,000 |
| The Pet Cottage | $12,000 |
| Champ | $12,000 |
| Warm Shelter Inc | $10,000 |
| Eugene Atwood Fund | $10,000 |
| Lighthouse Vocational Education | $10,000 |
| James Merrill House Foundation | $10,000 |
| Hygienic Art Inc | $10,000 |
| Rhode Island Center for assisting | $10,000 |
| New York Botanical Garden | $10,000 |
| Scruffy Paws Animal Rescue | $10,000 |
| Meals on Wheels West Palm Beach | $7,000 |
| Busch Wildlife Sanctuary | $6,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $206k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
36 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 7 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, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $40k 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
- TSTHE STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY INC9× · 2017–2025 · $175k · revenue +73%
- PNPAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $95k · revenue +55%
- TETHE EUGENE ATWOOD FUND5× · 2021–2025 · $60k · revenue +29%
Funded once
- SASaint Andrews School of RIone grant, 2021 · $20k
WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INCone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue -4%- CHCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +21%
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 mission of the SPCA of Tompkins County is to protect companion animals. We are a no-kill shelter dedicated to preventing animal cruelty and overpopulation. We promote responsible pet stewardship by providing education, counseling and…
The organization rescues cats in the northeast connecticut community and provides for their medical care, and arranges foster homes and adoption of these animals. using its diverse group of volunteers, the organization seeks to provide…
Dorchester Paws strives to instill humane principles into society through the prevention of cruelty to animals.
To rescue local animals in need, reduce pet overpopulation, and educate the communityespecially our youthon responsible animal care to help break the cycle of neglect. We are committed to supporting Palm Beach as a no-kill county and…
Our mission is to save the lives of homeless pets, promote kindness to animals, and advance the highest standards in animal welfare. Our goal is to create an environment in which all rescued animals are given or found a permanent loving…
To help rescue unwanted pets
To rescue abandoned, neglected and traumatized animals and find these animals their furever homes.
Promoting healthy responsible lifelong pet ownership by serving the medical and rehabilitative needs of animals while encouraging the humane treatment of animals, preventing overpopulation, and ending animal cruelty.
To provide shelter and medical care to animals who were stray, abandoned, and surrendered to local shelters and at great risk for euthanasia; with the purpose of finding permanent adoptive homes, to participate in the greater community's…
Fuzzy Pawz is a small group of dedicated volunteers who open their homes and their hearts to unwanted dogs and cats. Our non-profit rescue does not have a facility but rather places each animal into a private home. We supply all vet care,…
To support and care for animals sheltered resulting from abandonment, abuse or misfortune.
The Organization's mission is to rescue dogs from high-kill animal shelters and place them in loving forever homes. All dogs rescued are given necessary medical care prior to adoption, including required vaccinations. Dogs are placed in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is South Florida Wildlife Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Eugene Atwood Fund. 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 27 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) — 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 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.
33 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. 33 of the 59 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 THE STONINGTON FREE LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE EUGENE ATWOOD FUND ↗
- Who funds Clothing Our Kids Inc ↗
- Who funds Pet Cottage Inc ↗
- Who funds SCRUFFY PAWS ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds STAND UP FOR ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds THE BUSCH WILDLIFE SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds PERMANENTLY DISABLED JOCKEYS FUND INC ↗
- Who funds STONINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds STONINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
- Who funds HYGIENIC ART INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON AREA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF VIRGINIA INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF THE PALM BEACHES INC ↗
- Who funds AVALONIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds RAPPCATS ↗
- Who funds Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JAMES MERRILL HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTH FLORIDA WILDLIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Spark Makerspace Co ↗
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 · Fromson Foundation Inc · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Batchelor Foundation Inc · Leslie L Alexander Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Dxn Foundation · Nancy Spofford Yerkes Foundation Inc · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Washington Trust Co Charitable Fdn
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 Wimpfheimer 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.
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 47% of income from government
- Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Stonington Free Library Inc — 2% of income from government
- Love Inc of Mid Delmarva Inc — 1% of income from government
- New London Area Food Pantry — 1% of income from government
- Palm Beach County Food Bank Inc — 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project 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.