· Public charity
Westport Rotary Club Foundation Inc
Donate proceeds of fundraisers to 501(c)(3) organizations
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.
The 31 grants below total $215,500 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $389,706 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $174,206 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k28 grants · $186k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| HOMES WITH HOPE | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER | $8,500 |
| OPEN DOORS | $8,500 |
| POSITIVE DIRECTIONS | $8,500 |
| STAPLES TUITION GRANTS | $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 |
| CLASP HOMES | $6,500 |
| NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION | $6,500 |
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 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.
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. 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.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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
- DVDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER3× · 2023–2025 · $24k · revenue +4%
- MCMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC3× · 2023–2025 · $23k · revenue +22%
- SHSTAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC3× · 2023–2025 · $21k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $120k
- RCROTARY CLUB OF KANDYone grant, 2021 · $6k
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.
Career resources, inc. offers jobseekers throughout connecticut, the training, support and resources needed to become employed and succeed in the workforce.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
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…
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.
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.
Psychosocial rehabilitation, supportive housing and occupational placement programs for those with severe mental illness.
Focus center for autism: helping children and adults with autism achieve their full potential.
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.
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the connecticut foster care system.
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.
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc and 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.
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 38 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
25 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. 25 of the 34 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 NICAPHOTO INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds POSITIVE DIRECTIONS-THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds MID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STAPLES HIGH SCHOOL TUITION GRANTS COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT BOOK SALE VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECT US INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds CLASP HOMES INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK HOUSING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds HOMEBRIDGE VENTURES INC ↗
- Who funds EARTHPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Horizons at CT State Norwalk Inc ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds ELDERHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE SUSAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD RESCUE US 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: 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
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 Westport Rotary Club 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.
- 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
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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