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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.

$187k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$67k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$136kHuman Services$132kRecreation & Sports$129kAnimals$115kFood & Nutrition$54kHealth$45kYouth Development$45kPhilanthropy$40kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $178,552, the rows itemized in this filing. The $186,552 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $112k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $67k
$9,443
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.6B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CONNECTICUT DOUBLE PLAY LLC (DBA HARTFORD YARD GOATS)$67,000
FRIENDS OF CAMP NEIPSIC INC$9,598
SAVE ALL DOGS INC$9,598
NORTH HAVEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY$9,598
BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA CONNECTICUT RIVERS COUNCIL$9,443
THETA ALPHA SIGMA GREATER LEGACY FOUNDATION INC$9,443
LUKE ROUX FOUNDATION$9,443
WINDSOR EDUCATION FOUNDATION$9,212
ENFIELD FOOD SHELF$9,212
WINDSOR FOOD AND FUEL BANK INC$9,212
GENTLE LOVE DIAPER PANTRY$8,931
A PLACE CALLED HOPE$8,931
PLAYHOUSE THEATER GROUP INC$8,931
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $9k → 11%GENTLE LOVE DIAPER PANTRY: $9k → 11%FOR ALL AGES INC: $9k → 11%TLC FOUNDATION DIYESO-LEWIS HOUSE: $7k → 11%RISE & SHINE CONNECTICUT INC: $12k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 25% of American Eagle Financial Credit Union’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 88%.

American Eagle Financial Credit Unionlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

16%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$120k · 3 repeat orgs$633k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
50

Total granted

$120k
$454k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $179k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
AnimalsHuman ServicesYouth DevelopmentFood & NutritionHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HY
    HARTFORD YARD GOATS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2021–2022 · $70k · revenue +86% · 37% of their budget
  • SO
    SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD
    3× · 2020–2022 · $30k · revenue +34%
  • AL
    ALMADA LODGE TIMES FARM CAMP CORPORATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · $20k · revenue -56%

Funded once

  • LN
    LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $35k
  • RA
    Rise And Shine CT Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $12k · revenue +9%
  • CC
    Connecticut Cat Connection Incgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +71%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Thank Dog Rescue Inc

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.

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2
C a T S Northeast Inc

Animal Welfare in Northeast Connecticut

Animals
3
Animal Friends of Connecticut Inc

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.

Animals
4
Poodle Rescue Connecticut Inc

Poodle rescue connecticut is devoted to the health and well-being of poodles and poodle mixes.

Animals
5
Animal Alliance Welfare League Inc

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…

Animals
6
Our Companions Domestic Animal Sanctuary Inc

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…

Animals
7
Connecticut for Animals Education Fund Inc

CT for Animals Education Fund is committed to promoting welfare and protection of animals and the environment through education, awareness, community outreach, and engagement.

Animals
8
Ct Dog Gone Recovery Inc

The mission of ct dog gone recovery is to reunite owners with their lost dogs.

Animals
9
Greater New Haven Cat Project Inc

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…

Animals
10
Paws Cat Shelter Inc

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…

Animals
11
Greyhound Pets of America Connecticut Greyhound Adoption

Connecticut greyhound adoption's primary purpose is to find suitable homes for retired racing greyhounds.

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12
Horse of Connecticut Inc

Rescue and Rehabilitation of Abandoned horses and ponies.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut; 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.
05the grantee network

54 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. 54 of the 68 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/54
Grantees still filing
36/54
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CONNECTICUT DOUBLE PLAY LLC (DBA HARTFORD YARD GOATS): $67,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT DOUBLE PLAY LLC (DBA HARTFORD YARD GOATS)LIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT: $35,000 · OtherLIVE NATION ENTERTAINMENT+36 more: $311,450 · Other+36 moreHARTFORD YARD GOATS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · Human ServicesHARTFORD YARD GO…Rise And Shine CT Inc: $12,000 · Human ServicesRise And Shine C…FOR ALL AGES INC: $9,201 · Human ServicesFOR ALL AGES INCGENTLE LOVE DIAPER PANTRY INC: $8,931 · Human ServicesGENTLE LOVE DIAP…OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $8,614 · Human ServicesOUR PIECE OF THE…TLC FOUNDATION INC: $7,359 · Human ServicesTLC FOUNDATION I…SAVE ALL DOGS: $9,598 · AnimalsSAVE ALL DOGSConnecticut Cat Connection Inc: $9,598 · AnimalsConnecticut Cat…CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $9,486 · AnimalsCONNECTICUT HUM…THAT NEWFOUNDLAND PLACE INC: $9,187 · AnimalsTHAT NEWFOUNDLA…PROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC: $9,175 · AnimalsPROTECTORS OF A…NO ANIMAL LEFT UNFED INC: $9,140 · AnimalsNO ANIMAL LEFT …EVERYBUNNY COUNTS RABBIT RESCUE: $9,140 · AnimalsEVERYBUNNY COUN…Boomer S Best Buddies Rescue Inc: $9,086 · AnimalsBoomer S Best B…MERIDEN HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $8,975 · AnimalsMERIDEN HUMANE …A PLACE CALLED HOPE INC: $8,931 · AnimalsA PLACE CALLED …DOG STAR RESCUE INC: $8,026 · AnimalsDOG STAR RESCUE…Furry Animals Being Saved Rescue In: $6,847 · AnimalsFurry Animals B…SPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD: $30,000 · Community ImprovementFREE CENTER INCORPORATED: $8,376 · Community ImprovementALMADA LODGE TIMES FARM CAMP CORPORATION: $20,000 · Recreation & SportsLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $9,086 · Recreation & SportsHartford County 4-H Camp Inc: $8,376 · Recreation & SportsUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $17,971 · PhilanthropyLUKE ROUX FOUNDATION INC: $9,443 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT: $5,253 · PhilanthropyHARTFORD PERFORMS INC: $8,975 · Youth DevelopmentSOUTHINGTON GIRLS SOFTBALL LEAGUE INC: $8,614 · Youth DevelopmentThe Police Activities League of Hartford Incorporated: $7,772 · Youth DevelopmentFRIENDS OF FEENEY INC: $6,847 · Youth Development
Other$413,450Human Services$116,105Animals$107,189Community Improvement$38,376Recreation & Sports$37,462Philanthropy$32,667Youth Development$32,208

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHARTFORD YARD GOATS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetSPIRIT OF SPRINGFIELD: $30,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetALMADA LODGE TIMES FARM CAMP CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY WORLDWIDE: $17,971 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRise And Shine CT Inc: $12,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetSAVE ALL DOGS: $9,598 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetConnecticut Cat Connection Inc: $9,598 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetANGEL OF EDGEWOOD INC: $9,598 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetENFIELD LOAVES & FISHES: $9,486 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $9,486 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC: $9,486 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetENFIELD FOOD SHELF INC: $9,212 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWindsor Food and Fuel Bank Inc: $9,212 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetFOR ALL AGES INC: $9,201 over 1y, 12% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: $9,201 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $9,201 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTHAT NEWFOUNDLAND PLACE INC: $9,187 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetCREATIVE LIVING COMMUNITY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $9,187 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetPROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC: $9,175 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHARTFORD GAY MENS CHORUS INC: $9,175 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetBoomer S Best Buddies Rescue Inc: $9,086 over 1y, 14% of budgetPAPERHOUSE PRODUCTIONS INC: $9,086 over 1y, 14% of budgetLITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC: $9,086 over 1y, 9.0% of budgetHARTFORD PERFORMS INC: $8,975 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOPEN DOORS OUTDOORS: $8,975 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetMERIDEN HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $8,975 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGENTLE LOVE DIAPER PANTRY INC: $8,931 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetA PLACE CALLED HOPE INC: $8,931 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetPlayhouse Theatre Group Inc: $8,931 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE ARC OF CONNECTICUT INC: $8,810 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $8,810 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $8,614 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHINGTON GIRLS SOFTBALL LEAGUE INC: $8,614 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetASNUNTUCK COMMUNITY - TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $8,614 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetHartford County 4-H Camp Inc: $8,376 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFREE CENTER INCORPORATED: $8,376 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetDOG STAR RESCUE INC: $8,026 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $8,026 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Police Activities League of Hartford Incorporated: $7,772 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetWOODY WILLIAMS FOUNDATION INC: $7,772 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTLC FOUNDATION INC: $7,359 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetROARING BROOK NATURE CENTER AUXILIARY: $7,359 over 1y, 54% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW BRITAIN: $6,847 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFurry Animals Being Saved Rescue In: $6,847 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF FEENEY INC: $6,847 over 1y, 22% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER HARTFORD INC: $6,575 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSENIORS JOB BANK INC: $6,575 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetUNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT: $5,253 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Hartford Foundation f…Aetna Foundation IncIon Bank Foundation I…Farmington Bank Commu…Rockville Bank Commun…American Savings Foun…United Way Inc United…Eversource Energy Fou…Sbm Charitable Founda…Lincoln Financial Fou…Liberty Bank Foundati…William Caspar Graust…
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT51× affinity25 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization American Eagle Financial Credit Union funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from American Eagle Financial Credit Union. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 270%4%15%34%60%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
27get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to American Eagle Financial Credit Union?

Find your warmest path to American Eagle Financial Credit Union through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 68 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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