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Wadsworth Family Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$598k
Granted FY2024still arriving
43
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fund
0185% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20192024.

Housing & Shelter$1.1MHealth$818kReligion$244kHuman Services$238kInternational$210kPhilanthropy$108kYouth Development$91kArts & Culture$57kOther$0
02FY2024 · 43 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k28 grants · $75k
  • $10k–50k11 grants · $173k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $350k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIARD$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$100,000
GRACE CENTER FOUNDATION$100,000
DR MISSION TEAM$50,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$48,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NH$30,000
CARIBBEAN FELLOWSHIP MINISTRY$15,000
EQUICENTER$10,000
MT ZION FREE METHODIST CHURCH$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
BIG DOG RESCUE RANCH$10,000
LABS4RESCUE$10,000
JOHNNYS AMBASSADORS$10,000
JINGLED ELVES INC$10,000
MASTERS MANNA$10,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY19–24, $227k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CAMP CARE: $2k → 11%CATHOLIC CHARITIES MAINE: $3k → 7%FREE TO RUN: $5k → 9%JACK AND JILL CHILDRENS CENTER: $50k → 13%JACK & JILL CENTER: $65k → 13%BETTER TOGETHER: $5k → 10%JACK &JILL CENTER: $80k → 13%HOPE 4 KIDS: $5k → 10%WALLINGFORD FAMILY YMCA: $8k → 12%WALLINGFORD FAMILY YMCA: $3k → 12%WALLINGFORD FAMILY YMCA: $1k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

ME
VT
NY
OR
WY
IN
CT
CO
MD
KS
NC
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.2M · 32 repeat orgs$941k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

32
86

Total granted

$2.2M
$722k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+23%

Still filing today

50%
24%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesPhilanthropyHealthAnimalsArts & CultureHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • JA
    JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
    3× · 2019–2021 · $195k · revenue +5%
  • GC
    GRACE CENTER FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2022–2024 · $175k · revenue +76%
  • UB
    Ulbrich Boys and Girls Club Inc 2021 990
    4× · 2019–2022 · $51k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BROWARD INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $80k · revenue +151%
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity Broward County
    one grant, 2020 · $80k
  • DM
    DOMINICAN MISSION PROJECT
    one grant, 2021 · $75k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Milford Humane Society Inc

Find homes to adopt more than 200 cats per year and rehabilitation of stray and feral cats

Animals
2
Habitat for Humanity of N West Ct

Habitat for humanity of northwest ct, inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to construct and rehabilitate homes for needy individuals and families in northwest connecticut.

3
Our Companions Domestic Animal Sanctuary Inc

Our Companions is an animal rescue organization that is committed to doing the right thing for animals, regardless of the cost or challenge. Our Companions offers programs to help animals in need today, while working to prevent animals…

Animals
4
Animal Friends of Connecticut Inc

A nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to saving abused, injured, or handicapped cats. we provide food, shelter, and medical care to each cat until we find a home that can provide the care and love each animal deserves.

Animals
5
Hartford Catholic Worker Inc

The mission of Hartford Catholic Worker is to practice the works of mercy. We do this through our work with children and families in our neighborhood, helping to make sure the hungry are fed and helping secure housing for the homeless.

International
6
Friends of the New Haven Animal Shelter

To rescue, rehabilitate and permanently rehome stray/abused animals within the greater new haven ct area.

Animals
7
Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation

Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with…

Housing & Shelter
8
Paws From Afar Inc

At Paws From Afar Rescue, a 501c3, New England foster based dog rescue, where the wagging tails meet their happy tails. Our mission is a joyful one: to sprinkle a little magic in matching rescue dogs with their perfect human buddies.

Animals
9
Rescue Charlies Friends

Rescue Charlies Friends mission is to prevent cruelty to animals by rescuing dogs that are abandoned, abused, neglected or about to be euthanized. These are Charlies Friends and these are the dogs we focus on. Our mission is to rescue them…

Animals
10
Happy Tails Dog Rescue Inc

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…

Animals
11
Hop a Long Hollow Rabbit Rescue and Adoption Inc

Animal rescue

Animals
12
Their Lives Matter

Dog rescue and care nurturing finding a home

Animals

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charity for Change Inc and the most unlike its peers is Joey Logano Charitable Foundation 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDog and Cat RescueIndustry Trade AssociationsHealthcare Delivery SystemsEarly Childhood Care CentersLabor Union OrganizationsDevelopmental Disabilities …Developmental Disabilities …Family Philanthropic Founda…Professional Association Ne…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 years old; the field is 15. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number23%0%<5yr15%11%5–10yr21%26%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr10%21%35–55yr14%21%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value23%0%<5yr15%4%5–10yr21%32%10–20yr16%15%20–35yr10%23%35–55yr14%26%55yr+

The field is 23% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close 0.0% lost their exemption, against 14% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/53
the rest of the field
14%
3,536/25,898

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.

04the grantee network

45 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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 45 of the 140 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

DR MISSION TEAM — $720,100 · OtherDR MISSION TEAMHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — $498,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CFC — $225,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY CFCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COLLIARD — $100,000 · Other+113 more — $943,727 · Other+113 moreJACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $195,000 · Human ServicesYMCA OF WALLINGFORD INC — $11,500 · Human Services+5 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesGRACE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 · InternationalMAIDAN UNITED INC — $20,000 · InternationalTHE ADELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · PhilanthropyJoey Logano Charitable Foundation Inc — $25,000 · PhilanthropyJINGLED ELVES INC — $10,500 · PhilanthropyWALLINGFORD FOUNDATION — $6,500 · PhilanthropyCHARITY FOR CHANGE INC — $4,000 · PhilanthropyTHE PETIT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 · PhilanthropyHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc — $60,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterEQUICENTER INC — $35,000 · HealthSISTERS PROJECT — $23,700 · HealthJOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC — $10,000 · HealthTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $5,000 · Health+1 more — $1,000 · HealthMaster's Manna Inc — $29,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,486,827Human Services$226,500International$195,000Philanthropy$90,000Housing & Shelter$75,000Health$74,700Food & Nutrition$29,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetJACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC — $195,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetGRACE CENTER FOUNDATION INC — $175,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BROWARD INC — $80,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc — $60,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUlbrich Boys and Girls Club Inc 2021 990 — $51,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetTHE ADELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 3y, 88% of budgetEQUICENTER INC — $35,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetMaster's Manna Inc — $29,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetJoey Logano Charitable Foundation Inc — $25,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetSISTERS PROJECT — $23,700 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetLABS4RESCUE INC — $22,500 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMAIDAN UNITED INC — $20,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALLINGFORD SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC — $13,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetMY SISTERS' PLACE INC — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF WALLINGFORD INC — $11,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJINGLED ELVES INC — $10,500 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetJOHNNYS AMBASSADORS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWALLINGFORD FOUNDATION — $6,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF WALLINGFORD — $5,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetFREE TO RUN INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetAUTISM SERVICES & RESOURCES CONNECTICUT — $5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHope 4 Kids Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWALLINGFORD CENTER INC — $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCHARITY FOR CHANGE INC — $4,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE PETIT FAMILY FOUNDATION INC — $4,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCatholic Charities Maine — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGILEAD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Cat Connection Inc — $2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBRANFORD LAND TRUST INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP CARE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetDOG STAR RESCUE INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMIDSTATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $1,225 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetIN A HEARTBEAT INC — $1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ANIMAL HAVEN INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBENHAVEN INC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HUNDRED CLUB OF CONNECTICUTINC — $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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 JACK AND JILL CHILDREN'S CENTER INC
  • Who funds GRACE CENTER FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF BROWARD INC
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc
  • Who funds Ulbrich Boys and Girls Club Inc 2021 990
  • Who funds THE ADELMAN FAMILY FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds EQUICENTER INC
  • Who funds Master's Manna Inc
  • Who funds Joey Logano Charitable Foundation Inc
  • Who funds SISTERS PROJECT
  • Who funds LABS4RESCUE INC
  • Who funds MAIDAN UNITED INC
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC
  • Who funds SAMARITAN'S PURSE
  • Who funds WALLINGFORD SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC
  • Who funds MY SISTERS' PLACE INC
  • Who funds YMCA OF WALLINGFORD INC
  • Who funds JINGLED ELVES 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.

Ion Bank Foundation IncCT23.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Aetna Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Town Fair Tire Foundation Inc · The James H Napier Foundation · North Haven Rotary Foundation Inc · United Way of Meriden & Wallingford Inc · Td Charitable Foundation · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace 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 Wadsworth Family 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 190%6%23%51%90%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 33%
  • Columbus House Inc100% of income from government
  • Gilead Community Services Inc62% of income from government
  • Benhaven Inc33% of income from government
  • My Sisters' Place Inc26% of income from government
  • Habitat for Humanity of Broward Inc6% of income from government
  • Jack and Jill Children's Center Inc2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
19get no government money at all
10report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Wadsworth Family Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Wadsworth Family Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 140 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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