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WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC
To Administer Funds Whose Income Is to Be Used For The Benefit Of Residents Of The Town Of Westbrook.
$519k
Granted FY2024
86
Grants
16
Communities
$74k
Largest
01What you fund
01
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 88% of WESTBROOK FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2018
youthfinancial
2019
ashburnerfarrelljacobsgallaghervictoriaryanscholarship
2020
ernstgingrasbeeberanellialyssascholarshipold
2021
equipment purchaseselizabethluftscholarshipoldjarazachary
2022
special allocationmetcalfetripscholarshipchurchwallacealexandra
2023
brajczewskicarolinesharpeavamackenziescholarshipchurch
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2024 · 86 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k77 grants · $277k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $106k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $137k
$3,500
Median grant
16
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
- Town of Westbrook$73,940
- First Congregational Church of West$63,000
- SHORELINE SOUP KITCHEN$25,000
- FRIENDS OF THE WESTBROOK LIBRARY$18,512
- SAFE HARBOR$13,992
- ST PAUL'S CHURCH WESTBROOK$13,015
- WESTBROOK YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES$13,000
- WESTBROOK MUSIC BOOSTER$12,000
- ESTUARY COUNCIL OF SENIORS INC$10,000
- ELLIOT KOPLAS$9,500
- SONORA STONGE$8,500
- DERICK NOVILLO$8,000
- EMMA PALAWASKY$7,000
- DOUGLAS PERRONE-GRAY$7,000
- WESTBROOK GARDEN CLUB$6,884
02The need
04
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 cost of living 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, United Way ALICE — 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.
76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.3M · 119 repeat orgs$727k to everyone else
119 repeat relationships — 51 still active in FY2024, 68 since wound down; 35 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
119
149
Total granted
$2.3M
$571k
Median revenue growth · since first grant
+33%
+298%
Still filing today
8%
1%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $156k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesEducationEmploymentPhilanthropyOther
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
- VSVALLEY SHORE YMCA5× · 2017–2021 · $216k · revenue +23%
- SHSAFE HARBOR4× · 2021–2024 · $85k · revenue +27%
- BNBARE NECESSITIES5× · 2018–2024 · $33k · revenue +53%
Funded once
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITYone grant, 2020 · $70k
- WCWESTBROOK CONSERVATION COMMISone grant, 2017 · $50k
- WBWESTBROOK BD OF EDUCATIONone grant, 2023 · $43k
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
Lymes Youth Service Bureau
The purpose of the Organization is to provide programs and services for the youth and families of Lyme and Old Lyme, CT. The Organization identifies and satisfies various youth needs by providing professional guidance to promote healthy…
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2
Community Residences Inc
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
Human Services
3
Disabilities Network of Eastern Connecticut Inc
Assist individuals with disabilities to enable them to live and/or work more independently in their communities in whatever capacity they are capable of. See Schedule O for more information on the Mission Statement.
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4
Camp Laurelwood Inc
Camp laurelwood is connecticut's only jewish non-profit overnight camp, and also a shoreline jewish day camp with the objectives of fostering personal growth, leadership, self-reliance, self-confidence, cooperation, and a sense of…
Recreation & Sports
5
Regional Young Men's Christian Association of Western Connecticut Inc
THE REGIONAL YMCA OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT IS A COMMUNITY SERVICE ORGANIZATION COMMITTED TO BUILDING HEALTHY LIVES THROUGH PROGRAMS THAT STRENGTHEN THE SPIRIT, MIND, AND BODY FOR ALL. With a focus on nurturing the potential of every young…
Human Services
6
Young Mens Christian Assoc of Greenwich
The ymca of greenwich enriches the community by developing and nurturing youth, promoting healthy living for all and fostering social responsibility.
Human Services
7
Opportunity Works Connecticut Inc
The organization supports people with intellectual and physical disabilities in eastern connecticut. we are committed to providing the best individualized supports to assist everyone to find meaningful vocational activities and/or gainful…
Employment
8
The Caring Community of Connecticut Inc
To provide independent living facilities and vocational day treatment services for developmentally disabled adults.
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9
Seabird Enterprises Inc
Day program services for state of ct department of developmental services clients. they are provided with support and training for placement within the community as self sufficient individuals.
Human Services
10
Connecticut Association for the
To enhance the care, education, and development of Connecticut's young children, in the context of family, and community; and to support the professionals who care for them. CTAEYC provides training to increase the competencies of…
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11
Sarah Tuxis Residential Services in
To provide living accomodations in residential settings for developmentally disabled individuals in the shoreline area of connecticut.
Human Services
12
Meeting Waters Ymca
Building strong communities by inspiring all to develop healthy spirit, mind and body. we envision communities where people of all ages; embody the values of caring, honesty, reepect and responsibility; deepen connections with one another,…
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Camp Hazen Young Men's Christian and the most unlike its peers is Maritime Education Network Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
11 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$2,656,305Human Services$325,300Employment$15,500Education$3,500Philanthropy$3,280
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.
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.
Community Foundation OfCT13.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Community Foundation Of · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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 organisation WESTBROOK 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Lumibility Inc — 76% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BARE NECESSITIES.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
insufficient risk
Limited financial data in public filings.
Track record & reputation
low risk
8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +53% since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 383985314 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BARE NECESSITIES, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 14% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro
How do I get to Westbrook Foundation Inc?
Find your warmest path to Westbrook Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
Strange bedfellows
the named clusters of US funding
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines