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Apple Pickers Foundation at a glance

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Apple Pickers Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$469k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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.

Health$1.1MEducation$962kFood & Nutrition$423kRecreation & Sports$350kPhilanthropy$298kArts & Culture$283kHousing & Shelter$150kCrime & Legal$85kOther$0
02FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k12 grants · $244k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $200k
$15,000
Median grant
6
States reached
$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIDEPOOL PROJECT$75,000
CITY SEED INC$75,000
ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC$50,000
ROOT NS INC$36,000
THE FORMAN SCHOOL INC$25,000
FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC$25,000
COMPASSION AND CHOICES$25,000
HANDEL HOUSE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA INC$25,000
HOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$25,000
GITAMEIT FRIENDS USA$22,500
CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC$15,000
COCOA FARMING FUTURE INITIATIVE$15,000
FAIRFIELD POLICE FOUNDATION CT INC$10,000
MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INCORPORATED$10,000
KIDS EMPOWERED BY YOUR SUPPORT INC$10,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $11k) 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%USA CRICKET: $10k → 10%INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CARE GIVERS OF GREATER NEW HA: $1k → 12%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.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
MI
NY
MA
OR
PA
CT
RI
CA
CO
MO
DC
AL
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 6% of Apple Pickers Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Apple Pickers Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 5.5% directed abroad (not shown)
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.3M · 20 repeat orgs$1.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

20 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

20
45

Total granted

$2.3M
$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+23%

Still filing today

95%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 51% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EducationArts & CultureHealthRecreation & SportsFood & NutritionEnvironmentOther
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

  • AJ
    ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $475k · revenue ×24
  • TP
    Tidepool Project
    5× · 2020–2024 · $385k · revenue +150%
  • CC
    COMPASSION & CHOICES
    4× · 2021–2024 · $325k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • IA
    ICC AMERICAS
    one grant, 2018 · $250k · revenue -65%
  • UC
    UMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC
    one grant, 2022 · $150k
  • SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · $75k · 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
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
2
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy

Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.

Philanthropy
3
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
4
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
5
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
6
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
7
Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

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8
Open New York Education Inc

Open new york education, inc. supports public education, awareness, and engagement around housing issues to help build a movement for a more abundant and inclusive new york.

Housing & Shelter
9
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
10
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…

Philanthropy
11
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
12
The Israel Innovation Fund Inc

Our vision is to reignite the zionist spirit and meet the needs of jewish civilization in the twenty-first century by connecting people around the world through the vibrancy and creativity of contemporary israeli culture.

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Cross Tv Incorporated. 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

70 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. 70 of the 80 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/70
Grantees still filing
46/70
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $475,000 · EducationADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY I…MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $115,000 · EducationMERCY LEARNING CENTER …Yale University: $45,000 · EducationYale UniversityFAIRFIELD POLICE UNION SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $42,500 · EducationTHE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $30,000 · Education+7 more: $124,970 · Education+7 moreTidepool Project: $385,000 · HealthTidepool ProjectThe diaTribe Foundation: $305,500 · HealthThe diaTribe Foundat…BARRY & MARTIN AMERICA INC: $25,000 · Health+3 more: $16,000 · HealthTHE ADAM J LEWIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · OtherCATALYST CT INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE WESTERLY AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $50,000 · OtherKids Empowered by Your Support Inc: $130,000 · OtherKids Empowered by Your Support In…CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $50,000 · OtherTHE CURRENT INC: $45,000 · OtherCONVOY OF HOPE: $50,000 · OtherTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC: $100,000 · OtherTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INCMUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWESTERN CT INC: $50,000 · OtherOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $50,000 · OtherJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $50,000 · Other+34 more: $543,853 · Other+34 moreUMASS CHAN MEDICAL SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC: $150,000 · PhilanthropyUMASS CHAN…SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $75,000 · PhilanthropySOUTHSIDE …FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD …THE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $47,500 · PhilanthropyTHE RHODE …FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $30,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING P…SOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE: $25,000 · PhilanthropySOCIAL ENT…ICC AMERICAS: $250,000 · Recreation & SportsICC AMERI…COLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION: $65,000 · Recreation & SportsCOLORADO …SMART CHOICE NATIONAL CRICKET ACADE: $25,000 · Recreation & SportsSMART CHO…+2 more: $8,500 · Recreation & SportsCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $325,000 · Civil RightsCITY SEED INC: $75,000 · Food & NutritionFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $55,000 · Food & NutritionFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionGREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 · Food & NutritionROOT NS INC: $36,000 · Food & Nutrition
Education$832,470Health$731,500Other$1,218,853Philanthropy$397,500Recreation & Sports$348,500Civil Rights$325,000Food & Nutrition$266,000

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 budgetADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC: $475,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetTidepool Project: $385,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES: $325,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetThe diaTribe Foundation: $305,500 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetICC AMERICAS: $250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetKids Empowered by Your Support Inc: $130,000 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $115,000 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC: $100,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetCITY SEED INC: $75,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetSOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $75,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $70,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCOLORADO SPRINGS SPORTS CORPORATION: $65,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetFARM FRESH RHODE ISLAND INC: $55,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetMUTUAL HOUSING ASSOCIATION OF SOUTHWESTERN CT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCONVOY OF HOPE: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJACQUES PEPIN FOUNDATION THE: $50,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetFAIR FOOD NETWORK INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE ADAM J LEWIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetGREEN VILLAGE INITIATIVE INC: $50,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCATALYST CT INC: $50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $50,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WESTERLY AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $47,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CURRENT INC: $45,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetYale University: $45,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD POLICE UNION SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC: $42,500 over 6y, 5.8% of budgetNEW ISRAEL FUND: $40,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetROOT NS INC: $36,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHANDEL HOUSE FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $35,000 over 2y, 34% of budgetFARESTART: $31,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCROSS TV INCORPORATED: $27,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetSMART CHOICE NATIONAL CRICKET ACADE: $25,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetTHE CAPITAL GOOD FUND: $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIAL ENTERPRISE GREENHOUSE: $25,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetWIKIMEDIA FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetAQUIDNECK ISLAND LAND TRUST: $25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CITIZENSHIP: $22,378 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION & ALUMNI ENGAGEMENT: $17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYMEDISEASEORG: $15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetFAIRFIELD POLICE FOUNDATION CT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $12,500 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Fairfield County's Co…William Caspar Graust…The Near and Far Asso…Newman's Own Foundati…NewCity FoundationThe Scripps Family Fu…The Community Foundat…Young Mens Christian …Tauck Family Foundati…Newalliance Foundatio…The Rhode Island Comm…Peoples United Commun…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT29.5× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Near and Far Association Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · NewCity Foundation · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · Tauck Family Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Peoples United Community 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 Apple Pickers Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Apple Pickers Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 15%
  • The Housing Collective Inc: 100% of income from government
  • City Seed Inc: 87% of income from government
  • Catalyst Ct Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services: 37% of income from government
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Root Ns Inc: 26% of income from government
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Music Haven Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Green Village Initiative Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre: 1% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
16report 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.

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 80 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
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where grant money is based, and what stays home