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Widows Society
Its FY2021 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2021.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k3 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $40k
- $50k–250k7 grants · $675k
- $250k+3 grants · $4.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UCONN WOMEN'S HEALTH | $2,100,000 |
| HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE | $1,688,358 |
| CRT | $300,000 |
| VETERANS INC | $100,000 |
| FOODSHARE | $100,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY CARE | $100,000 |
| CAPITAL COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| CHARTER OAK STATE COLLEGE | $100,000 |
| AURORA WOMEN AND GIRLS FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| UNIVERSALIST CHURCH OF WEST HARTFORD | $75,000 |
| GRACE ACADEMY | $40,000 |
| PROJECT HOPE - HAITI RELIEF | $7,700 |
| CT HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $5,000 |
| MT SINAI REHAB HOSPITAL LYMPHEDEMA DEPT | $5,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of your 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.
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.
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.
Fundraising for scholarships, programs and capital support for ct state community college norwalk.
To support the educational efforts of ct state community college - three rivers.
Description of organization mission connecticut college values academic excellence, diversity, equality, shared governance, education of the entire person, adherence to common ethical and moral standards, community service and global…
Provide educational services to chartered financial analyst community
See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.
To support and improve the overall health and well-being of the greater hartford community through grants, projects and partnerships.
The hartford foundation for public giving, established in 1925, is the community foundation for the 29 towns in the hartford region. its mission is putting philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant…
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.
To support the community college system of new hampshire and make higher education more accessible.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Capital 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.
7 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. 7 of the 29 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.
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: Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving 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 organization Widows Society 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.
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Connecticut Community Care Inc — 15% of income from government
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Inc — 0% 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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