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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 FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
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.

Education$218kHuman Services$218kFood & Nutrition$81kHealth$55kReligion$25kArts & Culture$17kEnvironment$16kCommunity Improvement$11kOther$0
02FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $85,900, the rows itemized in this filing. The $139,807 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $53,907 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $37k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $49k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$462k · 13 repeat orgs$201k to everyone else

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

13
14

Total granted

$462k
$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+50%

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.

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
Human ServicesArts & CultureFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyHealthOther
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

  • JB
    JAMES BLACKSTONE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $104k · revenue +26%
  • FB
    FEED BRANFORD KIDS INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $36k · revenue +102%
  • CB
    CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC
    4× · 2017–2023 · $25k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • BP
    BRANFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $31k
  • VS
    VOLUNTEER SERVICE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $23k · revenue +54% · 68% of their budget
  • ES
    EAST SHORE DISTRICT HEALTH
    one grant, 2020 · $15k
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
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
2
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
3
Branford Festival Corporation

Annual summer festival held in Branford, CT.

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4
Nantucket Center for Elder Affairs Inc

Provide services to the elderly

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5
Bradford Hospital Foundation

To develop and generate philanthropic support for bradford regional medical center's continued development and growth.

Health
6
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
7
St Vincent De Paul Place Norwich Inc

Provide meals, food pantry and hospitality to the poor of the greater norwich and eastern ct areas.

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8
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
9
Bradley Home for the Aged

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.

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10
Salisbury Visiting Nurse Association Inc

We support access to and delivery of patient-centered services in your home and across our community in the northwest corner of connecticut. we strive to strengthen that support as we have done since 1904.

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11
Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut Inc

VNA of South Central Connecticut, Inc. is dedicated to enhancing the health, well being and quality of life at home and in the community is serves.

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12
Greater Hartford Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Volunteer Service Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

18 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. 18 of the 29 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/18
Grantees still filing
14/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRANFORD HIGH SCHOOL: $48,500 · OtherBRANFORD HIGH SCHOOLTOWN OF BRANFORD: $46,000 · OtherTOWN OF BRANFORDBRANFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $31,100 · OtherBRANFORD PUBLIC SCHOOLSCLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC: $25,000 · OtherCLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INCBRANFORD FOOD PANTRY: $24,200 · OtherBRANFORD FOOD PANTRYCOMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC: $21,133 · OtherCOMMUNITY DINING ROOM INCBRANFORD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC: $20,000 · OtherBRANFORD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INCSOUNDVIEW FAMILY YMCA: $19,800 · OtherSOUNDVIEW FAMILY YMCALITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $18,566 · OtherLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER NEW HAVENBRANFORD MICROFUND: $16,000 · OtherEAST SHORE DISTRICT HEALTH: $15,000 · Other+7 more: $56,875 · Other+7 moreWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $110,500 · Arts & CultureWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE …THE LEGACY THEATRE INC: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LEGACY THEATRE I…JAMES BLACKSTONE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOC: $103,950 · EducationJAMES BLACKSTONE …VOLUNTEER SERVICE CENTER INC: $22,900 · Human ServicesSHORELINE VILLAGE CT: $5,700 · Human ServicesEAST SHORE REGIONAL ADULT DAYCARE CENTER INC: $5,685 · Human ServicesTHE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesFEED BRANFORD KIDS INC: $36,000 · Food & NutritionSHORELINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $11,000 · Community ImprovementSARAH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBHcare Inc: $5,000 · Health
Other$342,174Arts & Culture$120,500Education$103,950Human Services$39,285Food & Nutrition$36,000Community Improvement$11,000Philanthropy$5,000Health$5,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $110,500 over 5y, 6.6% of budgetJAMES BLACKSTONE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ASSOC: $103,950 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFEED BRANFORD KIDS INC: $36,000 over 4y, 19% of budgetCLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRANFORD FOOD PANTRY: $24,200 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetVOLUNTEER SERVICE CENTER INC: $22,900 over 1y, 68% of budgetCOMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC: $21,133 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetBRANFORD EARLY LEARNING CENTER INC: $20,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $18,566 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSHORELINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $11,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetBRANFORD CLUB-ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetTHE LEGACY THEATRE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetSHORELINE VILLAGE CT: $5,700 over 1y, 10% of budgetEAST SHORE REGIONAL ADULT DAYCARE CENTER INC: $5,685 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSARAH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVNA Community Healthcare Inc: $5,000 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 Guilford Foundati…The Community Foundat…Seedlings FoundationNewalliance Foundatio…The Echlin FoundationJoe & Cindy Goldberg …Eder Family Foundatio…Agency on Aging of So…Roslyn Milstein Meyer…Town Fair Tire Founda…Eversource Energy Fou…The Pfizer Foundation…
The Guilford Foundation IncCT28.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Branford Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Branford Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
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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Find your warmest path to Branford Community Foundation 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 29 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 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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