How much did BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION reported 6 grants totaling $139,807 in its FY2024 IRS filing.

Where is BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION based?

BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is based in CT.

BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

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BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

The mission of the bcf is to improve the wellbeing of the branford community by connecting people who care with causes that matter, now and for generations to come.

$140k

Granted FY2024

Grants

Communities

$49k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 52% of BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

—

2019

legacyprofessional theatre

2020

adultidealbusinesstherapeuticpersonssarahrotarian's

2021

—

2022

children

2023

foodchildren

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k5 grants · $37k
$10k–50k1 grant · $49k

$8,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.3M

Total assets

Largest grants

BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL$48,500
BRANFORD FOOD PANTRY$9,200
FEED BRANFORD KIDS$8,000
WOMAN AND FAMILY LIFE$7,500
SOUNDVIEW FAMILY YMCA$7,000
SHORELINE VILLIAGE CT$5,700

02The need

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.

None of your grants could be placed against cost of living need for this view.

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, United Way ALICE — 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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$462k · 13 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +72% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$462k

$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+72%

+17%

Still filing today

77%

43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHealthPhilanthropyOther

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

JB
JAMES BLACKSTONE MEMORIAL LIBRARY
4× · 2017–2020 · $104k · revenue +72%
FB
FEED BRANFORD KIDS
4× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +102%
CW
CLIFFORD W BEERS GUIDANCE CLINIC
4× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +63%

Funded once

BP
BRANFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
one grant, 2017 · $31k
VS
VOLUNTER SERVICES CENTER
one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue -12%
ES
EAST SHORE DISTRICT HEALTH
one grant, 2020 · $15k

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.

Homemaker Thrift Shop Inc

Dedicated to serving the Branford community since 1976. The shop is directed by volunteers dedicated to helping the community of Branford through the sale of donated and consigned items. Profits remaining after operational expenses are…

Human Services

Food Pantry of North Branford Inc

To serve the people in our community by providing food and other household necessities to those in need.

Human Services

Burroughs Community Center Inc

To provide residents of bridgeport, ct with program opportunities and facility resources to promote individual growth and community cohesiveness.

Recreation & Sports

Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health

The Connecticut Center for Nursing

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

Health

Nantucket Center for Elder Affairs Inc

Provide services to the elderly

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Bradford Community

Foster economic development within the community by attracting small and growing businesses.

Community Improvement

New London Area Food Pantry

Serving the residents of New London and Southeastern CT by offering a selection of groceries to those who cannot afford to meet their nutritional needs otherwise.

Human Services

Branford Festival Corporation

Annual summer festival held in Branford, CT.

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Farmington Food Pantry Inc

To provide a respectful, empowering environment, where supplemental food and personal care items are available to individuals who need assistance in farmington, ct.

Food & Nutrition

The Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health

Connecticut Nurses' Association

Continuing education of nurses and advocacy for nursing issues.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Branford Early Learning Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shoreline Chamber of Commerce. 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

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

16/17

Grantees still filing

12/17

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$347,874Arts & Culture$120,500Education$103,950Food & Nutrition$36,000Human Services$33,585Community Improvement$11,000Health$5,000Philanthropy$5,000

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.

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.

The Guilford Foundation IncCT26.9× affinity10 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Guilford Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New · Seedlings Foundation · The Echlin Foundation · Agency on Aging of South Central · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family · Town Fair Tire Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 organisation BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

3get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

typical government reliance, FY20–25

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: FEED BRANFORD KIDS.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

5 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 2.0× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 825449088 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on FEED BRANFORD KIDS, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2025; revenue grew over the period.
On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 19% of their budget — diversified.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Branford Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Branford Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Branford Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph

BRANFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Branford Community Foundation?

More from the funding graph