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Amour Propre Fund Inc at a glance

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Amour Propre Fund Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$309k
Granted FY2025still arriving
16
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$84k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Health$1.2MPhilanthropy$930kEducation$889kHuman Services$150kYouth Development$131kEmployment$86kFood & Nutrition$55kCivil Rights$47kOther$0
02FY2025 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k7 grants · $13k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $106k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $189k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$5.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$84,000
CITY SEED$55,383
CORNELL SCOTT HILL HEALTH$50,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER NEW HAVEN$36,400
ANTI DEFAMATION LEAGUE$25,000
SHUBERT THEATRE$15,000
CONNECTICUT CASA$10,000
GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$10,000
HOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION$10,000
SOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC$5,000
FUND FOR WOMEN AND GIRLS$3,150
NEW HAVEN PROMISE$1,000
MONK YOUTH JAZZ AND STEAM COLLECTIVE$1,000
NEW HAVEN FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION$1,000
LONG WHARF THEATRE$1,000
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.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

61%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 12 repeat orgs$1.4M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +20% since the first grant, against -2% for those funded once.

12 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
10

Total granted

$2.2M
$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
-2%

Still filing today

83%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $146k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesCrime & LegalEmploymentCommunity ImprovementOther
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

  • CS
    CORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATION
    3× · 2023–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +14%
  • H
    HAVENLY
    3× · 2022–2024 · $86k · revenue +144%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $66k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $680k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION MISSION
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • YC
    YOUTH CONTINUUM INC
    one grant, 2020 · $150k · revenue -9%
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
New Haven Works Inc

To grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.

Education
2
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
3
Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc

Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.

—
4
The Foundation of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Inc

Receive and administer gifts, grants and contributions. assist local & state government leaders in community development programs.

Unclassified
5
New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc

New haven legal assistance association, inc.'s mission is to provide high quality legal services to individuals, families, and groups who are unable to obtain legal services because of limited income, age, disability, discrimination, and…

—
6
The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Inc

To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.

Health
7
Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc

The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.

—
8
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…

—
9
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

The mission of the community foundation is to create positive and sustainable change in greater new haven by increasing the amount and enhancing the impact of community philathropy.

Philanthropy
10
Hartford Promise Inc

To transform the lives of thousands of hartford students through an integrated college success model that provides them the financial resources, support services, & key relationships that lead to college success & economic mobility.

Education
11
The Children's Community Programs of Ct

The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.

Health
12
New Neighborhoods Inc

New neighborhoods, inc.'s purpose is to develop, redevelop, own and manage quality housing for low and moderate income persons and families and to work to assist in the planning, re-planning, development and improvement of low and moderate…

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New Haven Scholarship Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 28 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
10/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $680,000 · OtherCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONSOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $542,500 · OtherSOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INCGATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $292,500 · OtherGATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INCCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION MISSION: $250,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION MISSIONIndividual grant recipient: $84,000 · Other+13 more: $224,050 · Other+13 moreCORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATION: $1,085,000 · HealthCORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATIO…FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $100,000 · HealthFAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC I…YOUTH CONTINUUM INC: $150,000 · Human Services+1 more: $2,000 · Human ServicesHAVENLY: $85,936 · EmploymentCITY SEED INC: $55,383 · Food & NutritionHOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 · Education+1 more: $1,500 · EducationANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $45,500 · Civil Rights
Other$2,073,050Health$1,185,000Human Services$152,000Employment$85,936Food & Nutrition$55,383Education$51,500Civil Rights$45,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATION: $1,085,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetGATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $292,500 over 6y, 31% of budgetYOUTH CONTINUUM INC: $150,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetFAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVENLY: $85,936 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $66,400 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCITY SEED INC: $55,383 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $45,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT COURT APPOINTED SPECIAL ADVOCATES INC: $25,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetCOLLAB INCORPORATED: $25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetTHE NEW HAVEN SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW REACH INC: $9,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAVEN PROMISE INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $1,000 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.

The Community Foundat…Newalliance Foundatio…William Caspar Graust…Yale UniversityUnited Way of Greater…Ethel & Abe Lapides F…Yale New Haven Health…Liberty Bank Foundati…Eder Family Foundatio…Seedlings FoundationThe Jane and William …Td Charitable Foundat…
The Community Foundation for Greater New HavenCT38.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Yale University · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · Td Charitable Foundation

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 Amour Propre Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Amour Propre Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • City Seed Inc: 87% of income from government
  • Youth Continuum Inc: 76% of income from government
  • New Reach Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Havenly: 40% of income from government
  • Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc: 18% of income from government
  • Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc: 17% of income from government
  • Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated: 4% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre: 1% of income from government
  • New Haven Promise Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
3report 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.
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How do I get to Amour Propre Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Amour Propre Fund Inc 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 28 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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