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Catic Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k24 grants · $62k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $88k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VATC | $40,000 |
| SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY LAW SCHOOL | $14,000 |
| ALTA GOOD DEEDS FOUNDATION | $12,500 |
| MARGUERITE'S PLACE NEST EGG HOMEOWN | $11,500 |
| ST JOHN'S UNIVERSITY OF LAW | $10,000 |
| VT BAR FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| MCLE INC | $7,500 |
| ISERVE MINISTRIES INC | $7,500 |
| THE CT BAR INSTITUTE INC | $7,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEAST | $5,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS | $5,000 |
| CT FOOD SHARE | $3,500 |
| JUNIOR LEAGUE OF HARTFORD | $2,500 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATIO | $2,000 |
| BAY PATH UNIVERSITY | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 28% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 22 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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
SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $73k · revenue +9%- CBCT BAR INSTITUTE INC5× · 2021–2025 · $39k · revenue +149%
Amirah Inc3× · 2021–2023 · $30k · revenue +24%
Funded once
- GDGOOD DEEDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2023 · $15k
- BCBENNINGTON COUNTY HABITAT FORone grant, 2023 · $10k
- MBMIND BODY & SOUL OF MID-FAIRFIELDone grant, 2024 · $10k
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The food bank's mission is to provide nutritious food to non-profit organizations that feed the hungry in darien, greenwich, new canaan, norwalk, stamford and wilton ct., while seeking to raise awareness of, and promote action to combat,…
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…
To lead a network of partners to alleviate hunger, prevent food waste, and nourish the communities we serve. our vision is that all people have the nutritious food they need to thrive.
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
Food bank of central new york is a not-for-profit organization: our mission is to lead the effort to eliminate hunger in our region, through partnerships with others in our community, through education, advocacy, and distribution of…
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
Our mission is to mobilize people, partnerships and resources to catalyze change that strengthens the communities served.
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…
Provide education and legal information, conferences and special activities; public relations, legislative efforts and lobbying for members.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Connecticut Foodshare Inc and the most unlike its peers is Axis Lending Academy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 44 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
40 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. 40 of the 70 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 SUFFOLK UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALTA GOOD DEEDS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CT BAR INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Amirah Inc ↗
- Who funds ISERVE MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Bay Path University ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM & WINDSOR HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AXIS LENDING ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Housing Trust of Rutland County Inc ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOMESHARE VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF NEW BRITAIN 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving 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 organization Catic 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.
- Windham & Windsor Housing Trust Inc — 100% of income from government
- Housing Trust of Rutland County Inc — 100% of income from government
- Lawyers Concerned for Lawyers- Connecticut Inc — 99% of income from government
- Boys' & Girls' Club of New Britain Inc — 58% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Homeshare Vermont Inc — 32% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Bay Path University — 3% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Suffolk University — 1% of income from government
- Worcester County Food Bank Inc — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut Bar Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Second Harvest Food Bank of Central Florida Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Marathon Foundation Inc — 0% 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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