· Private foundation
Tw Marian W Ottley-Watertown
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k1 grant · $9k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $157k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $935k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $200,000 |
| RAILROAD MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC | $150,000 |
| HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC WATERTOWN | $133,000 |
| ST JOHN R C CHURCH CORP OF WATERTOWN | $100,000 |
| ST JOHNS EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $100,000 |
| CONNECTICUT JUNIOR REPUBLIC ASSOCIATION | $75,000 |
| HEALTH HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| WESTOVER SCHOOL INC | $52,000 |
| SOUTHMAYD HOME INC | $50,000 |
| SEVEN ANGELS THEATRE INC | $26,000 |
| MUSICALS AT RICHTER INC | $25,000 |
| PALACE THEATER GROUP INC | $23,000 |
| DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION | $19,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WATERBURY | $17,000 |
| CAROLYNS PLACE | $15,000 |
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, $76k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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.
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 +24% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
30 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $574k 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
- FNFlanders Nature Center & Land Trust Inc4× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +206%
- TTTHE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION5× · 2017–2024 · $425k · revenue +135%
- WLWatertown Library Association3× · 2017–2021 · $253k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- CSCANTERBURY SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $125k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · $119k
- SHSOUTHMAYD HOME INCone grant, 2023 · $100k
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 purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
The mission of the waterford public library is to enrich, educate and connect our community through discovery and access to ideas, information, technology and entertainment.
To provide literary, historical, educational and cultural resources for the general public.
Preservation of open space in watertown, ct; maintenance of owned and conserved properties and public education of enviromental issues.
The mission of the library is to serve to the community, cultivate knowledge, promote curiosity, and inspire lifelong learning.
We provide students with a world-class liberal arts education that stimulates intellect, ignites passion, and shapes character.
The willington public library mission statement: we welcome and support all people in their enjoyment of reading and lifelong learning. we are dedicated to enriching the community by providing access to a variety of resources, services,…
Theaterworks' mission is to share intimate stories that engage all audiences. it creates exceptional contemporary theater that entertains, celebrates new voices, and invites meaningful conversations. its vision is to inspire a more…
To provide diverse programming and promote arts education thereby enriching the cultural life of the greater Norwalk community
The waterbury land bank authority ("wlb") works to enhance the quality of life for waterbury residents. we do this by repurposing vacant lots and structures into new community assets. we work closely with the city of waterbury, other…
Makersphere is dedicated to fostering creativity in our community by providing educational opportunities and workspace for all ages. we help people share their knowledge and build their creative skills in various arts and crafts including…
To stimulate and support economic and housing development within the communities of the city of waterbury.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Junior Republic Association Incorporated and the most unlike its peers is Southmayd Home 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 36 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 66 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 Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Watertown Library Association ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CANTERBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds Seven Angels Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds BRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds SOUTHMAYD HOME INC ↗
- Who funds RAILROAD MUSEUM OF NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WATERTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WATERBURY CAMPERSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WESTOVER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT JUNIOR REPUBLIC ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds HEALTH HORIZONS INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSICALS AT RICHTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALACE THEATER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds VASSAR COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds JOHN TRUMBULL PRIMARY SCHOOL PTO ↗
- Who funds The Waterbury Chorale 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: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Leever Foundation · Chase Collegiate School Foundation · The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Ibm International 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 Tw Marian W Ottley-Watertown 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.
- Connecticut Junior Republic Association Incorporated — 71% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury — 18% of income from government
- The Palace Theater Group Inc — 12% of income from government
- Homefront Inc — 9% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Landmark Community Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Shakesperience Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc — 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.
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