· Private foundation
Chelsea Groton Foundation
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 $10k301 grants · $489k
- $10k–50k24 grants · $286k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF EASTERN CT FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CITY OF NEW LONDON | $39,286 |
| CCSU FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SECT | $11,511 |
| FURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT | $10,000 |
| CARE & SHARE OF EAST LYME INC | $10,000 |
| OPERATION FUEL INC | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT | $10,000 |
| NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER (NLCMC) | $10,000 |
| NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER | $10,000 |
| ALWAYS HOME INC | $10,000 |
| SAFE FUTURES INC | $10,000 |
| WHEELER LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| PROVISION MINISTRY INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY24–25, $193k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 2% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 8% of Chelsea Groton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +18% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
293 repeat relationships — 180 still active in FY2025, 113 since wound down; 99 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, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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
- NCNORWICH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO3× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +359%
- WBWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC5× · 2021–2025 · $89k · revenue +268%
- GAGarde Arts Center Inc4× · 2021–2025 · $81k · revenue +154%
Funded once
- COChamber of Commerce of Eastern CT Foundationone grant, 2023 · $50k
- ECEASTERN CONNECTICUT HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INCone grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue -11%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
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…
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
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…
The Universal Health Care Foundation's mission is to be a catalyst that engages people and communities in shaping a democratic health system that provides universal access to quality health care and promotes health in Connecticut. The…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is Tyler Graham Founation. 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 31 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
299 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. 299 of the 650 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NORWICH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Garde Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC ↗
- Who funds Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON AREA FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds Martin House Inc ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE NORWICH INC ↗
- Who funds THE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGHER EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds FURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEAST CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds Madonna Place Inc ↗
- Who funds Thames River Community Service Inc ↗
- Who funds THE NORWICH FREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HOPE Inc ↗
- Who funds Riverfront Childrens Center Inc ↗
- Who funds NORWICH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC ↗
- Who funds THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds Care & Share of East Lyme Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SPEAKS OUT INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERN CONNECTICUT HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES 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: Dime Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc · Kitchings Family Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
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 Chelsea Groton 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.
- Reliance Health Inc — 100% of income from government
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Housing Collective Inc — 100% of income from government
- Hedco Inc — 100% of income from government
- Norwich Community Development Corporatio — 100% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Guide Inc — 90% of income from government
- Sound Community Services Inc — 89% of income from government
- The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc — 88% of income from government
- Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc — 83% of income from government
- Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board Inc — 80% of income from government
- Community Health Resources Inc — 79% of income from government
- Lumibility Inc — 76% of income from government
- Thames River Community Service Inc — 76% of income from government
- Connecticut Main Street Center Inc — 71% of income from government
- Easterseals Capital Region & Eastern Connecticut — 63% of income from government
- The Covenant Shelter of New London Inc — 61% of income from government
- Norwich Public Schools Education Foundation — 55% of income from government
- Artreach Inc — 54% of income from government
- Martin House Inc — 53% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 47% of income from government
- The New London Community Meal Center Inc — 44% of income from government
- Futures Incorporated — 43% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Covenant to Care for Children Inc — 35% of income from government
- United Community and Family Servicesinc — 29% of income from government
- Waterford Country School Inc — 29% of income from government
- The Lighthouse Voc-Ed Center Inc — 24% of income from government
- Riverfront Childrens Center Inc — 21% of income from government
- Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Southeastern Council On Alcoholism and Drug Dependence Inc — 19% of income from government
- Steps Inc — 18% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Interdistrict Committee for Project Oceanology — 11% of income from government
- Natchaug Hospital Inc — 11% of income from government
- Noank Mystic Community Band Inc — 11% of income from government
- Garde Arts Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- Higher Edge Inc — 4% of income from government
- Green Planet Films Inc — 4% of income from government
- Neighborhood Music School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Place Norwich Inc — 4% of income from government
- Southeastern Regional Action Council Inc — 3% of income from government
- Thames Valley Music School Inc — 3% of income from government
- Cartie Corp — 3% of income from government
- Expressiones Cultural Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- The William W Backus Hospital — 2% of income from government
- United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Writer's Block Ink Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lyme Art Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- New London Area Food Pantry — 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Partnership for Strong Communities — 0% of income from government
- Bill Memorial Library — 0% of income from government
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 0% of income from government
- The Ccsu Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Norwich Rotary Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- Mystic & Noank Library 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.