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Anderson-Paffard Foundation 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.

$241k
Granted FY2025still arriving
23
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$85k
Largest
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20172025.

Religion$736kArts & Culture$473kHealth$232kHuman Services$131kEnvironment$117kPhilanthropy$109kEducation$89kHousing & Shelter$40kOther$0
02FY2025 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k15 grants · $56k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $100k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $85k
$5,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Noank Baptist Church$85,000
The Williams School$25,000
Safe Futures Inc$15,000
Mystic Seaport Museum$15,000
Planned Parenthood$15,000
Madonna Place$10,000
Natchaug Hospital$10,000
Always Home Inc$10,000
Eastern Conn Symphony Orchestra$5,000
Mystic Noank Library$5,000
CT Trust for Historic Preservation$5,000
Visiting Nurses Association of SE C$5,000
Individual grant recipient$5,000
Groton Open Space Association$5,000
United Way of Southeastern Connecti$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $110k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Madonna Place: $10k → 9%Madonna Place: $5k → 9%Madonna Place: $5k → 9%Madonna Place: $5k → 9%Riverfront Children's Center: $5k → 9%Riverfront Children's Center: $5k → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $15k → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $15k → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $10k → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $10k → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $5k → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $5k → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $5k → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $5k → 9%Safe Futures Inc: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.9M · 28 repeat orgs$38k to everyone else

28 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
2

Total granted

$1.9M
$8k

Still filing today

46%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthEnvironmentEducationHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $114k · revenue +31%
  • SF
    Safe Futures Inc
    9× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +65%
  • NH
    Natchaug Hospital Inc
    8× · 2017–2025 · $46k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • CR
    Conservation Research Foundation
    one grant, 2024 · $5k
  • MA
    Mystic Area Shelter Hospitality
    one grant, 2017 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Southeastern Connecticut Community Orchestra Inc
Arts & Culture
2
Norwalk Harbor Keeper
3
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut Inc

Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…

4
Wethersfield Historical Society

The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
5
Winchester Historical Society
6
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
7
Avery Copp Museum

The Avery-Copp Museum celebrates, preserves, and documents the historic home, its collection, and the grounds belonging to the Avery and Copp families in Groton, Connecticut. Our purpose is to engage the public in learning about history of…

Arts & Culture
8
Martin House Inc

The mission of Martin House, Inc. is to provide a nurturing community where individuals of limited income who have been alone, alienated, fearful, and dispossessed can develop healthy relationships, new dignity, and a renewed life. Our…

Health
9
Garde Arts Center Inc

The Garde Arts Center, non-profit professional center for the performing arts, strives to engage, educate, entertain, inspire, and enrich the region of greater New London County, by protecting, operating, and enhancing the historic Garde…

Arts & Culture
10
Maritime Music and Tradition Society Corp

The mission of the Maritime Music and Tradition Society Corp is preserving and encouraging maritime and traditional music through education, research, performance and community.

Arts & Culture
11
National Association of Hispanic Nurses-Hartford Chapter

Hartford Chapter of NAHN is committed to advancing the health in Hispanic communities and to lead, promote and advocate the educational opportunities for Hispanic nurses.

Health
12
Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut Inc

The mission of the Childrens Museum is to encourage learning and spark imagination by engaging childen and all families through creative and hands-on play in a safe and accessible

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mystic Seaport Museum Inc and the most unlike its peers is Connecticut Lyric Opera 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

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

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 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 13 of the 32 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
9/13
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NOANK BAPTIST CHURCH — $735,500 · OtherNOANK BAPTIST CHURCHPlanned Parenthood — $116,000 · OtherPlanned ParenthoodCommunity Foundation of SE CT — $92,000 · OtherCommunity Foundation of SE CTCT Early Music Society — $53,000 · OtherMystic Noank Library — $51,000 · Other+15 more — $303,000 · Other+15 moreMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $114,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT …Noank Historical Society Inc — $89,000 · Arts & CultureNoank Historica…CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC — $32,500 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT LYR…Salt Marsh Opera Company — $23,500 · Arts & CultureSalt Marsh Oper…GROTON OPEN SPACE ASSOCIATION INC — $112,000 · EnvironmentSafe Futures Inc — $75,000 · Human ServicesMadonna Place Inc — $25,000 · Human ServicesRiverfront Childrens Center Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesNatchaug Hospital Inc — $46,000 · HealthLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $35,000 · HealthALWAYS HOME INC — $31,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $13,000 · Education
Other$1,350,500Arts & Culture$259,000Environment$112,000Human Services$110,000Health$81,000Housing & Shelter$31,000Education$13,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $114,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetGROTON OPEN SPACE ASSOCIATION INC — $112,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetNoank Historical Society Inc — $89,000 over 9y, 6.4% of budgetSafe Futures Inc — $75,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNatchaug Hospital Inc — $46,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC — $32,500 over 9y, 9.3% of budgetALWAYS HOME INC — $31,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC — $25,000 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetMadonna Place Inc — $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSalt Marsh Opera Company — $23,500 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE — $13,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetRiverfront Childrens Center Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget
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 MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC
  • Who funds GROTON OPEN SPACE ASSOCIATION INC
  • Who funds Noank Historical Society Inc
  • Who funds Safe Futures Inc
  • Who funds Natchaug Hospital Inc
  • Who funds LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT LYRIC OPERA INC
  • Who funds ALWAYS HOME INC
  • Who funds THE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC
  • Who funds Madonna Place Inc
  • Who funds Salt Marsh Opera Company
  • Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE
  • Who funds Riverfront Childrens Center 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.

Chelsea Groton FoundationCT24× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Nordson Corporation Foundation · Loweth-Alvord Foundation · Brownington Foundation Inc · Helios Foundation · Kitchings Family Foundation

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 Anderson-Paffard Foundation Inc 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.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 00%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 15%
  • Groton Open Space Association Inc50% of income from government
  • The New London Community Meal Center Inc44% of income from government
  • Riverfront Childrens Center Inc21% of income from government
  • Madonna Place Inc20% of income from government
  • Safe Futures Inc15% of income from government
  • Natchaug Hospital Inc11% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc5% of income from government
  • The Trustees of the Smith College1% of income from government
  • Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY2025

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.

05Through Plinth

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How do I get to Anderson-Paffard Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Anderson-Paffard Foundation 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 32 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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