· Public charity
Women's Business Development Council Inc
Tthe mission of the women's business development council (wbdc) is to support economic prosperity for women and strengthen communities through entrepreneurial and financial education services that create and grow sustainable jobs and businesses across connecticut.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 95% of WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL 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.
The 470 grants below total $8,558,513 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $9,047,759 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $489,246 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 · FY2024
- Under $10k61 grants · $513k
- $10k–50k409 grants · $8.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TAMIKA SIMONE JULIEN | $25,000 |
| UNIVERSITY ARCHIVES INC | $25,000 |
| JAI SHIV | $25,000 |
| MONAHAN'S FLOOR COVERING LLC | $25,000 |
| CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA | $25,000 |
| CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC | $25,000 |
| JESSIE JIANG NEW YORK INC | $25,000 |
| JOHN ALLEN CO INC DBA ALLENS PLUMBING SUP | $25,000 |
| KEEPUP INC | $25,000 |
| T&J REALTY | $25,000 |
| CREATIVE STARTS LEARNING CENTER | $25,000 |
| NAUGATUCK AMBULANCE | $25,000 |
| MANUEL V PRETA AND ILDA S PRETA | $25,000 |
| ZED LLC DBA NARDELLI'S GRINDER SHOPPE | $25,000 |
| 59 RUBBER AVE LLC | $25,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $428k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 78% 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 +68% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
62 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 439 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 5% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.1M 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
- CACOLCHESTER ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL-AGED TOTAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE INC2× · 2020–2022 · $86k · revenue +54%
- TITHE ITALIAN CENTER OF STAMFORD INC2× · 2020–2022 · $60k · revenue +150%
- TCTHE CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCORPORATED2× · 2020–2022 · $57k · revenue +72%
Funded once
- RSROSCCO Stamford School Community Organization Incgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $75k · revenue +82%
- SPSURREYBROOK PRESCHOOL AND CHILD DEV CTRone grant, 2020 · $50k
- BDBRIARFIELD DAY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $50k
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.
Non-profit organization which was founded by the state of ct general assembly as a model for employer - sponsored childcare programs.
The cornwall child center is a nonprofit preschool whose aim is to provide the best possible early child care program for the children of cornwall
Provide day care services for children in the hudson valley
Guilford Center for Children, Inc. provides two major programs: an NAEYC accredited early education program for children ages 3 to 5 and a before and after school for children ages 5 through 12 years old for working families in Guilford.
The primary mission is to provide day care by providing the environment for proper physical and mental growth of children from two years, nine months of age through the sixth grade.
The purpose of the organization is to provide quality childcare for children living in the state of connecticut.
To promote affordable and quality child care, provide information and support to families, and strengthen childhood workforce in dutchess and putnam counties.
A developmental day care center providing care for special needs and non-special needs children.
Our mission is to provide a safe and nurturing environment for children to develop socially, creatively, emotionally, physically and cognitavely through the various programs we offer. we operate on the premise that a child's natural…
Child day care. the organization provides childcare services for children ages 3-12 years. each program complies with the state of connecticut licensing requirements which requires that each program be staffed by qualified teachers and…
Provide every child positive and accesible experiences that nurture development.
Our purpose is to provide a non-discriminatory day care program to assist the healthy physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development of children thus parental care and protections are supplemented during the time a child must or…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Haven Child Development Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Audubon Society 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 43 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) — 2% 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.
49 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. 49 of the 966 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COLCHESTER ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL-AGED TOTAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE INC ↗
- Who funds ROSCCO Stamford School Community Organization Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ITALIAN CENTER OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WEST HAVEN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MANSFIELD DISCOVERY DEPOT ↗
- Who funds Hope for New Haven Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF NEW MILFORD 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: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Hope for New Haven Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Oaklawn Foundationinc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc · Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation 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 Women's Business Development Council 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.
- 'R Kids Inc — 82% of income from government
- Hope for New Haven Inc — 47% of income from government
- Friends Center for Children Inc — 21% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Roscco Stamford School Community Organization Inc — 12% of income from government
- Bear Hugs Childcare Center — 10% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- The Children's Center of New Milford Inc — 7% of income from government
- Branford Early Learning Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- Mansfield Discovery Depot — 2% of income from government
- The Italian Center of Stamford Inc — 1% of income from government
- Community Childrens Center — 1% 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.