· Public charity
American Eagle Financial Credit Union
Our mission is to enrich the lives of our members and communities to create a world where financial freedom is a reality.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $178,552 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $186,552 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,000 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 $10k12 grants · $112k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTICUT DOUBLE PLAY LLC (DBA HARTFORD YARD GOATS) | $67,000 |
| SAVE ALL DOGS INC | $9,598 |
| FRIENDS OF CAMP NEIPSIC INC | $9,598 |
| NORTH HAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $9,598 |
| LUKE ROUX FOUNDATION | $9,443 |
| THETA ALPHA SIGMA GREATER LEGACY FOUNDATION INC | $9,443 |
| BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CONNECTICUT RIVERS COUNCIL | $9,443 |
| WINDSOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $9,212 |
| ENFIELD FOOD SHELF | $9,212 |
| WINDSOR FOOD AND FUEL BANK INC | $9,212 |
| PLAYHOUSE THEATER GROUP INC | $8,931 |
| A PLACE CALLED HOPE | $8,931 |
| GENTLE LOVE DIAPER PANTRY | $8,931 |
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, $46k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 25% of American Eagle Financial Credit Union’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 88% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 13 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k 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
- HYHARTFORD YARD GOATS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2021–2022 · $70k · revenue +86% · 37% of their budget
- SOSPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +34%
- ALALMADA LODGE TIMES FARM CAMP CORPORATION2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue -56%
Funded once
- LNLIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENTone grant, 2020 · $35k
- RARise And Shine CT Incone grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +9%
- AOANGEL OF EDGEWOOD INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +790%
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.
Thank Dog Rescue is an IRS approved 501(c)(3) charitable organization dedicated to finding loving homes for shelter, homeless and abandoned dogs of ALL breeds.
Animal Welfare in Northeast Connecticut
A nonprofit volunteer organization dedicated to saving abused, injured, or handicapped cats. we provide food, shelter, and medical care to each cat until we find a home that can provide the care and love each animal deserves.
Poodle rescue connecticut is devoted to the health and well-being of poodles and poodle mixes.
Animal alliance welfare league, inc. is a no-kill, all volunteer organization who's mission is to focus on trap/neuter/return (tnr) of strays and community cats in new britain, ct. it provides food , water and shelter and vet care to 400…
Our Companions is an animal rescue organization that is committed to doing the right thing for animals, regardless of the cost or challenge. Our Companions offers programs to help animals in need today, while working to prevent animals…
CT for Animals Education Fund is committed to promoting welfare and protection of animals and the environment through education, awareness, community outreach, and engagement.
The mission of ct dog gone recovery is to reunite owners with their lost dogs.
Gnhcp's mission is to end the suffering of homeless cats through the practice of trap/neuter/return (tnr), and also to educate the community ethically about the importance of animal welfare. our primary goal is to provide the low-income…
The organization rescues cats in the northeast connecticut community and provides for their medical care, and arranges foster homes and adoption of these animals. using its diverse group of volunteers, the organization seeks to provide…
Connecticut greyhound adoption's primary purpose is to find suitable homes for retired racing greyhounds.
Rescue and Rehabilitation of Abandoned horses and ponies.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut and the most unlike its peers is Windsor Food and Fuel Bank 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 17 years old; the field is 21. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 10% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
54 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 54 of the 68 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 HARTFORD YARD GOATS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD ↗
- Who funds ALMADA LODGE TIMES FARM CAMP CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY WORLDWIDE ↗
- Who funds Rise And Shine CT Inc ↗
- Who funds ANGEL OF EDGEWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Cat Connection Inc ↗
- Who funds NORTH HAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE ALL DOGS ↗
- Who funds Cans-4-A-Cause of Greater Middletown ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds ENFIELD LOAVES & FISHES ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LUKE ROUX FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Windsor Food and Fuel Bank Inc ↗
- Who funds ENFIELD FOOD SHELF INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds FOR ALL AGES INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds CREATIVE LIVING COMMUNITY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THAT NEWFOUNDLAND PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD GAY MENS CHORUS INC ↗
- Who funds EVERYBUNNY COUNTS RABBIT RESCUE ↗
- Who funds NO ANIMAL LEFT UNFED INC ↗
- Who funds PAPERHOUSE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds Boomer S Best Buddies Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN DOORS OUTDOORS ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PERFORMS 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Rockville Bank Community Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
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 American Eagle Financial Credit Union 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.
- Angel of Edgewood Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Police Activities League of Hartford Incorporated — 70% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
- Seniors Job Bank Inc — 8% of income from government
- Hartford Performs Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Arc of Connecticut Inc — 3% of income from government
- Spirit of Springfield — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford Inc — 0% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 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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