· Private foundation
Tomkat Foundation
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 $10k15 grants · $53k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $35k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTICUT PUBLC BROADCASTING NETW | $25,000 |
| EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN CT JOINING JES | $10,000 |
| ST MARK'S EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $8,000 |
| MYSTIC SEAPORT | $5,000 |
| STONEHILL COLLEGE FUND | $5,000 |
| HOUR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF E CT | $5,000 |
| WELLESLEY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| LA GRUA CENTER | $3,000 |
| ALWAYS HOME | $3,000 |
| THE WARM CENTER | $2,500 |
| NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING | $2,500 |
| MYSTIC & NOANK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $2,000 |
| NOANK COMMUNITY SUPPORT SVC INC | $2,000 |
| COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS | $2,000 |
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, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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 +63% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- WCWellesley College9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +63%
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $44k · revenue +31%- CHCOMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC3× · 2018–2020 · $40k · revenue +281%
Funded once
- FFARESTARTone grant, 2020 · $25k · revenue -42%
- PSPARK SLOPE CHRISTIAN HELPone grant, 2017 · $15k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $5k
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 women's resource center empowers survivors by providing trauma-informed services with equity and compassion while working collaboratively with the community to eliminate the root causes of interpersonal abuse.
The connecticut institute for refugees and immigrants, inc. (ciri) is a statewide nonprofit organization that assists refugees and immigrants resolve legal, economic, linguistic and social barriers so that they become self-sufficient,…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
For more than 45 years, primo center has empowered families experiencing homelessness to become productive, responsible, and independent members of their community.
Our mission is to break the cycle of addiction and trauma for women, children, and families.
Positively impacting the lives of our clients and their communities by providing services that facilitate skill development, enhance responsible citizenship, and increase overall well-being.
The mission of the children's home society of new jersey is to save children's lives and build healthy families. chs provides at-risk children and their families with a range of culturally sensitive social services that strengthen, support…
The mission of the women's institute is to promote economic resilience and stable homes by developing and preserving high quality affordable and supportive housing, with an emphasis on under-served populations.
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 core mission of the organization is to assist homeless or at-risk individuals and families secure stable homes. this is accomplished by providing a range of services including housing, basic needs, shelter, case management, referrals,…
Family service of rhode island's (fsri) mission is to advance equity, opportunity, and hope in our communities. we believe all children and families have limitless potential. but for those growing up surrounded by poverty, family…
Women's law project creates a more just and equitable society by advancing the rights and status of all women throughout their lives. to this end, we engage in high-impact litigation, advocacy, and education. the core values of women's law…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Westerly Area Rest Meals (Warm) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Alliance for Mystic River Watershed. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 30 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 Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HELP IN PARK SLOPE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds FARESTART ↗
- Who funds OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds CHRISTOPHER REEVE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds NOANK COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Trinity Repertory Company ↗
- Who funds EPISCOPAL RELIEF AND DEVELOPMENT ↗
- Who funds WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MUSICWORKS ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE FOR MYSTIC RIVER WATERSHED ↗
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 Champlin Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · 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 Tomkat 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.
- Noank Community Support Services Inc — 100% of income from government
- Christopher Reeve Foundation — 49% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% 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.