· Private foundation
Woman's Seamen's Friend Society of Ct Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 80% of WOMAN'S SEAMEN'S FRIEND SOCIETY OF CT INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $186k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $123k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MASSACHUSETTS MARITIME ACADEMY | $68,500 |
| MAINE MARITIME ACADEMY | $54,200 |
| SEAFARERS INTERNATIONAL HOUSE | $38,000 |
| SAIL CT ACCESS PROGRAM | $25,000 |
| NEW HAVEN READS | $24,951 |
| TAKE A VET FISHING | $20,000 |
| INTEGRATED REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES | $20,000 |
| SCHOONER INC | $20,000 |
| SUNY MARITIME COLLEGE | $17,800 |
| SAVE THE SOUND | $10,000 |
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $8,000 |
| NEW HAVEN PRESERVATION TRUST | $5,000 |
| THE SEAMEN'S CHURCH INSTITUTE | $3,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $63k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
35 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $55k 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
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC4× · 2020–2023 · $153k · revenue +97%
- GNGATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC)7× · 2017–2024 · $105k · revenue +57%
- NHNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC9× · 2017–2025 · $91k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- TSTHE SOUND SCHOOLone grant, 2017 · $15k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +79%
- HAHORIZONS AT FOOTE SCHOOLone grant, 2024 · $14k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.
To provide information of the City of New Haven CT and surrounding communities on the history cultural and entertainment opportunities of the City of New Haven CT.
This museum presents a graphic documentary history of new haven, from its settlement in 1638 to the present day, with artifacts and relics from the past through the present.
Provide to its members information, services and special events to expand, promote and develop new business in the greater new haven, connecticut region
The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
To provide food to those in need, fish delivers free groceries to people with food insecurity issues and delivers free groceries to the homebound who are low income and food insecure.
The Noah Webster House Inc. preserves, interprets, and champions Noah Websters legacy and birthplace, as well as the evolving history of West Hartford, the town that nurtured him.
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…
The purpose of the association is to provide for the protection and general welfare of the residents and owners of real property in the northeastern section of greenwich, connecticut, including the preservation of the residential character…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Foodshare Inc and the most unlike its peers is Site Projects 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 44 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 56 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 CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds Take A Vet Fishing Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds SEA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COLD SPRING SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds THE FAIRFIELD GARDEN CLUBINC AttnTreasurer ↗
- Who funds Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Yale University · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · International Association of New Haven Inc
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 Woman's Seamen's Friend Society of Ct 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.
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- New Haven Preservation Trust Incorporated — 29% of income from government
- Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated — 28% of income from government
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc — 18% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc) — 11% of income from government
- Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- Eli Whitney Museum 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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