· Public charity
Women's Business Development Council Inc
The 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k47 grants · $380k
- $10k–50k141 grants · $1.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTHERN CT HEBREW ACADEMY | $41,705 |
| BLOOM BAKE SHOP LLC | $25,000 |
| CERAMICS BY KIARA MATOS | $25,000 |
| AROUND THE CLOCK 4 TOTS LLC | $25,000 |
| TEACHER TOTS LLC | $25,000 |
| ROCIO'S LEARNING DEVELOPMENT CENTER LLC | $25,000 |
| WILLOW ACADEMY LLC | $25,000 |
| LITTLE EXPLORERS ACADEMY LLC | $25,000 |
| KCOLORFULDAYCARE #3 | $25,000 |
| METZUYAN CHILDCARE INC | $25,000 |
| LITTLE SPROUTS LEARNING CENTER INC | $25,000 |
| SILK CITY COFFEE | $25,000 |
| LITTLE ANGELS WORKSHOP | $25,000 |
| RHODES COLLAR LLC | $25,000 |
| LITTLE RASCALS NURSERY SCHOOL INC | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $492k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +66% since the first grant, against +7% for those funded once.
80 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 59 since wound down; 167 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, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.9M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
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 +193%
- 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
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.
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.
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.
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…
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.
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…
Preschool/child care services provided to approximately 110 children
Child Education Center is a licensed daycare serving children ages 6 weeks thru 6 years.
How this is measured
53 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 53 of the 1,133 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 WEST HAVEN CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN HEBREW DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Hope for New Haven Inc ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Women's Business Development Council Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Women's Business Development Council Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- '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
How this is measured
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