The John T and Jane a Wiederhold
Torrington, CT · EIN 06-1830842. Reported 80 grants totalling $4,288,364 to 50 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. For The John T and Jane a Wiederhold, the IRS classifies it as a private grantmaking foundation (NTEE T20).
- How spread out its giving is. 50 distinct organizations, with 9% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 26% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $41,173. Half of what it reported fell between $24,500 and $75,000; the smallest was $8,000 and the largest $250,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dakin Pioneer Valley Humane Societyinc | Springfield, MA | $374,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Little Guild of St Francis for the Welfare of Animals Inc | West Cornwall, CT | $279,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| National Marine Life Center Inc | Pocasset, MA | $272,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New Hartford Land Conservation Trust Inc | New Hartford, CT | $250,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Winchester Land Trust Inc | Winchestr Ctr, CT | $232,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Norfolk Land Trust Inc | Norfolk, CT | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Shelter Animals Count - a National Database Initiative | Atlanta, GA | $200,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| New York State Animal Protection Federation Education Fund | Albany, NY | $185,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc | Kent, CT | $175,000 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Warren Land Trust Inc | Warren, CT | $175,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| University of Florida Foundation Inc | Gainesville, FL | $150,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Cornell University | Ithaca, NY | $141,446 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Humane Society | Newington, CT | $103,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Animal Protective Foundation of Schenectady Inc | Scotia, NY | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Open Door Veterinary Collective | Grand Rapids, OH | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Salisbury Association Inc | Salisbury, CT | $99,700 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Tompkins County SPCA | Ithaca, NY | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Merrimack River Feline Rescue Society Inc | Salisbury, MA | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mohawk and Hudson River Humane Society | Menands, NY | $70,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New England Federation of Humane Societies | Lowell, MA | $65,000 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bethany Land Trust Incorporated | Bethany, CT | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Animal Haven Inc | North Haven, CT | $59,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Regents of the University of California Davis | Davis, CA | $51,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Gather New Haven | New Haven, CT | $50,000 | 2 | 1 | 2021 |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | Boston, MA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Middlesex Community College Foundation Incorporated | Middletown, CT | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northwestern Community College Foundation Regional Advisory Counc | Winsted, CT | $50,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Steep Rock Association Inc | Washington Dt, CT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Trust for Public Land | San Francisco, CA | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| University of Connecticut | Storrs, CT | $50,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Alliance for Contraception in Cats and Dogs | Ann Arbor, MI | $39,590 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Beaver Institute Inc | Southampton, MA | $36,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc | Greenfield, MA | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Housatonic Valley Association Inc | Cornwall Brg, CT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| A Place Called Hope Inc | Killingworth, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Catrock Ventures Inc | Bronx, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Environmental Learning Centers of Connecticut Inc | Bristol, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Audubon Society Inc | New York, NY | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Groundwork Bridgeport Inc | Bridgeport, CT | $24,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Kestrel Land Trust Inc | Amherst, MA | $24,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Western Connecticut State University Foundation Inc | Danbury, CT | $20,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mercy University | Dobbs Ferry, NY | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| United Spay Alliance | Walkersville, MD | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Whiskers Pet Rescue Inc | Southbury, CT | $18,628 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Susquehanna Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals | Cooperstown, NY | $17,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Connecticut Wildlife Rehabilitators Association Inc | Woodbridge, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| White Memorial Conservation Center Inc | Litchfield, CT | $14,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Westchester Community College Foundation Inc | Valhalla, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Mitchell Farm Equine Retirement Inc | Salem, CT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
19 of 50 (38%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- The Norfolk Land Trust
TO ACQUIRE THE KOPP PROPERTY - Dakin Humane Society
Sustainability and Capactiy Grant - Shelter Animals Count
SAC database expansion, forecasting - The Animal Protective Foundat
The APF's Humane Housing for dogs - New York State Animal Protection Federation Education Fund
SHELTER COMPANION ANIMAL CARE STANDARDS CONSULTING SERVICES - Open Door Veterinary Collective
OPENING THE DOOR TO VETERINARY ACCESS ONLINE CERTIFICATE
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 46 of 50 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 25 | $1,122,518 | $30,800 |
| 2022 | 20 | $1,014,146 | $27,500 |
| 2023 | 14 | $901,000 | $55,000 |
| 2024 | 21 | $1,250,700 | $39,700 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
48% of its giving went to organizations in Connecticut. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $41,173 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The John T and Jane a Wiederhold's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 21 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 33 East Main Street Po Box 1144, Torrington, CT, 06790.
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