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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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 6 grants below total $85,900 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $139,807 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $53,907 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $37k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
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 low income 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $54k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- JBJAMES BLACKSTONE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOC4× · 2017–2020 · $104k · revenue +26%
- FBFEED BRANFORD KIDS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +102%
- CBCLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC4× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +44%
Funded once
- BPBRANFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLSone grant, 2017 · $31k
- VSVOLUNTEER SERVICE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +54% · 68% of their budget
- ESEAST SHORE DISTRICT HEALTHone grant, 2020 · $15k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
To serve the people in our community by providing food and other household necessities to those in need.
Annual summer festival held in Branford, CT.
Provide services to the elderly
To develop and generate philanthropic support for bradford regional medical center's continued development and growth.
To provide a respectful, empowering environment, where supplemental food and personal care items are available to individuals who need assistance in farmington, ct.
None
Provide meals, food pantry and hospitality to the poor of the greater norwich and eastern ct areas.
To provide a compassionate community where loving care enables aged and indigent individuals from meriden and connecticut to live with dignity in a secure, homelike environment.
The mission of the Broad Brook Community Center, Inc. is to preserve and care for Guilfords historic Grange Hall by revitalizing it as a gathering place for activities that foster community spirit, honor our community heritage, and spark…
The Over 60 Club's Mission is to provide services for senior adults ages 60 and over. The Club is a social environment in a uniquely home-like atmosphere which offers support, education, recreation, nutrition entertainment and resources in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteer Service Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shoreline Village Ct. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 29 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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.
- Who funds WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JAMES BLACKSTONE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOC ↗
- Who funds FEED BRANFORD KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds VOLUNTEER SERVICE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BRANFORD CLUB-ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE VILLAGE CT ↗
- Who funds EAST SHORE REGIONAL ADULT DAYCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SARAH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BHcare Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds VNA Community Healthcare 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.
Open a dossier: The Guilford Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Seedlings Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Echlin Foundation · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · Town Fair Tire Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
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 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.
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- BHcare Inc — 68% of income from government
- Branford Early Learning Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- East Shore Regional Adult Daycare Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
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.
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