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Westport Rotary Club Foundation Inc

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$390k
Granted FY2025still arriving
31
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0187% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$79kHousing & Shelter$67kHuman Services$67kHealth$53kInternational$50kYouth Development$42kEmployment$20kEnvironment$7kOther$0
02FY2025 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 31 grants below total $215,500, the rows itemized in this filing. The $389,706 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $174,206 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $186k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$497k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$10,000
HOMES WITH HOPE$10,000
Individual grant recipient$10,000
POSITIVE DIRECTIONS$8,500
OPEN DOORS$8,500
STAPLES TUITION GRANTS$8,500
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER$8,500
HOMES FOR THE BRAVE$8,000
MID FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER$8,000
ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY$7,500
WESTPORT BOOK SALES VENTURES$7,500
HOMEBRIDGE VENTURES$7,000
BRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS$7,000
EARTHPLACE$6,500
CLASP HOMES$6,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

Grants abroad, by region: $71k on the FY2025 return

Schedule F, as filed: 1 region. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.

Region not stated$71k · 100% · 3 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$355k · 15 repeat orgs$228k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
2

Total granted

$355k
$125k

Still filing today

87%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’21’23’24’25
EducationHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • DV
    DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER
    3× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +4%
  • MC
    MID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +22%
  • SH
    STAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · $120k
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF KANDY
    one grant, 2021 · $6k
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Career Resources Inc

Career resources, inc. offers jobseekers throughout connecticut, the training, support and resources needed to become employed and succeed in the workforce.

Employment
2
Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services
3
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…

—
4
Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.

Crime & Legal
5
Child Advocates of Connecticut Inc

Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.

—
6
Laurel House Inc

Psychosocial rehabilitation, supportive housing and occupational placement programs for those with severe mental illness.

—
7
Focus Center for Autism Inc

Focus center for autism: helping children and adults with autism achieve their full potential.

Education
8
The Children's Community Programs of Ct

The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.

Health
9
Eastern Connecticut Housing Opportunities Inc

Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.

Housing & Shelter
10
Children in Placement Inc

The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the connecticut foster care system.

—
11
Community Solutions Inc

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.

Health
12
New Neighborhoods Inc

New neighborhoods, inc.'s purpose is to develop, redevelop, own and manage quality housing for low and moderate income persons and families and to work to assist in the planning, re-planning, development and improvement of low and moderate…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Susan Fund Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

25 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 25 of the 34 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
10/25
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $119,616 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $26,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $26,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientHOMES WITH HOPE: $26,000 · OtherHOMES WITH HOPEMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $22,500 · OtherMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INCCLASP HOMES INC: $12,000 · Other+12 more: $73,520 · Other+12 moreNICAPHOTO INC: $64,650 · EducationNICAPHOTO INCSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC: $21,000 · EducationSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUI…ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $20,500 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY IN…MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $6,000 · EducationHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc: $5,500 · EducationTHE SUSAN FUND INC: $5,500 · EducationPOSITIVE DIRECTIONS-THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING INC: $24,500 · HealthAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT: $20,500 · HealthDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $23,500 · Human ServicesHOMEBRIDGE VENTURES INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARVER INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesELDERHOUSE INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesCONNECT US INC: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentBRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC: $18,000 · Youth DevelopmentWESTPORT BOOK SALE VENTURES INC: $20,000 · EmploymentNORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 · Community Improvement
Other$305,636Education$123,150Health$45,000Human Services$41,500Youth Development$36,000Employment$20,000Community Improvement$12,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNICAPHOTO INC: $64,650 over 2y, 24% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $26,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetPOSITIVE DIRECTIONS-THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING INC: $24,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $23,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC: $21,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $20,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT: $20,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWESTPORT BOOK SALE VENTURES INC: $20,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCONNECT US INC: $18,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC: $18,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCLASP HOMES INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC: $12,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTHPLACE INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAROLINE HOUSE INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARVER INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHorizons at CT State Norwalk Inc: $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetELDERHOUSE INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC: $5,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…The Near and Far Asso…The Inner-City Founda…New Canaan Community …Peoples United Commun…The James & Mary Elle…Newman's Own Foundati…Young Mens Christian …The John and Ethel Ka…Elizabeth Raymond Amb…Grace K Salmon Trust …Ritter Family Foundat…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT41.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · Grace K Salmon Trust Par 9 & 10 Ow · Ritter Family Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Westport Rotary Club Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Westport Rotary Club Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Clasp Homes Inc: 91% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
  • Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Positive Directions-the Center for Prevention & Counseling Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
  • Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Westport Rotary Club Foundation Inc 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 34 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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