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Chelsea Groton Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

Chelsea Groton Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$800k
Granted FY2025still arriving
326
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Community Improvement$490kHealth$412kHuman Services$388kArts & Culture$360kHousing & Shelter$353kFood & Nutrition$305kEducation$272kPhilanthropy$176kOther$0
02FY2025 · 326 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k301 grants · $489k
  • $10k–50k24 grants · $286k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$500
Median grant
7
States reached
$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
COVENANT SHELTER OF NEW LONDON INC$10,000
THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE INC$10,000
OPERATION FUEL INC$10,000
SOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM & DRUG DEPENDENCE INC (SCADD)$10,000
ST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE NORWICH INC$10,000
ALWAYS HOME INC$10,000
SAFE FUTURES INC$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT$10,000
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT (UCP)$10,000
UNITED WAY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT$10,000
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.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC: $100 → 14%PCOS AWARENESS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 15%A LITTLE COMPASSION INC: $1k → 7%UNITED SERVICES INC: $100 → 12%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $5k → 7%MARC COMMUNITY RESOURCES: $100 → 7%NEW HAVEN GAY & LESBIAN COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $100 → 12%COVE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN INC: $3k → 12%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $100 → 7%FURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT: $10k → 9%FURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $9k → 9%COVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $5k → 11%COVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $5k → 11%WESTERLY SENIOR CITIZENS CENTER ASSOCIATION: $100 → 7%CARE & SHARE OF EAST LYME INC: $10k → 9%BEYOND THE BATTLE: $100 → 7%AMERICAN RED CROSS CT: $4k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS CT: $500 → 11%LIGHTHOUSE VOC-ED CENTER INC: $6k → 9%AMERICAN RED CROSS CT: $100 → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $100 → 11%PAWCATUCK NEIGHBORHOOD CENTER INC: $200 → 9%FUTURES INCORPORATED: $2k → 11%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $4k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $10k → 9%MADONNA PLACE INC: $8k → 9%THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE INC: $5k → 9%MADONNA PLACE INC: $5k → 9%HAITIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER NORWICH: $5k → 9%HAITIAN COMMUNITY CENTER OF GREATER NORWICH: $3k → 9%MADONNA PLACE INC: $300 → 9%MADONNA PLACE INC: $300 → 9%RIVERFRONT CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $6k → 9%STEPS INC: $5k → 9%RIVERFRONT CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $5k → 9%RIVERFRONT CHILDREN'S CENTER INC: $300 → 9%CARE & SHARE OF EAST LYME INC: $8k → 9%STONINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER: $5k → 9%STONINGTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $2k → 9%NEW LONDON AREA FOOD PANTRY INC: $25k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $10k → 9%NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $10k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $8k → 9%STEPS INC: $5k → 9%SPARK MAKERSPACE CO: $2k → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $500 → 9%SAFE FUTURES INC: $400 → 9%NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $200 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
VA
MD
TN
NC
DC
HI
FL
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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 8% of Chelsea Groton Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 94%.

Chelsea Groton Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.7% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.7M · 296 repeat orgs$483k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +21% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.

296 repeat relationships: 192 still active in FY2025, 104 since wound down; 87 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

296
213

Total granted

$2.7M
$314k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+2%

Still filing today

59%
30%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 79% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $169k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationAnimalsRecreation & SportsOther
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

  • NC
    NORWICH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO
    3× · 2021–2025 · $90k · revenue +359%
  • WB
    WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $89k · revenue +56%
  • GA
    Garde Arts Center Inc
    4× · 2021–2025 · $81k · revenue +154%

Funded once

  • EC
    EASTERN CONNECTICUT HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $21k · revenue +72%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $20k
  • CO
    City of New London Office of Development & Planning
    one grant, 2022 · $16k
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
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
2
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

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…

—
3
Connecticut Citizen Action Group Inc

We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.

—
4
Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities Inc

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…

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5
Connecticut Health Foundation Inc
Philanthropy
6
Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc

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.

—
7
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
8
Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health
9
Wethersfield Historical Society

The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
10
Norwalk Community Health Center

To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.

Health
11
The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc

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…

Community Improvement
12
Universal Health Care Fndtn of Ct Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

300 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 300 of the 600 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
62
Early backer (in before they grew)
286/300
Grantees still filing
179/300
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Chamber of Commerce of Eastern CT Foundation: $150,000 · OtherChamber of Commerce of Eastern CT FoundationUnited Way of SECT: $69,759 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC: $60,900 · OtherChamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Inc: $55,000 · OtherTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $61,100 · Other+114 more: $1,152,780 · Other+114 moreNEW LONDON AREA FOOD PANTRY: $52,600 · Human ServicesNEW LONDON AR…Safe Futures Inc: $41,300 · Human ServicesSafe Futures …FURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEAST CONNECTICUT INC: $33,500 · Human ServicesFURNITURE BAN…NEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $32,800 · Human ServicesNEW LONDON HO…Madonna Place Inc: $28,200 · Human ServicesMadonna Place…Thames River Community Service Inc: $27,800 · Human ServicesThames River …Riverfront Childrens Center Inc: $25,950 · Human ServicesRiverfront Ch…Care & Share of East Lyme Inc: $22,000 · Human ServicesCare & Share …STEPS Inc: $13,100 · Human Services+11 more: $78,741 · Human Services+11 moreMartin House Inc: $48,600 · HealthMartin Ho…LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $45,000 · HealthLAWRENCE …COMMUNITY SPEAKS OUT INC: $21,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY…The William W Backus Hospital: $18,600 · HealthThe Willi…THE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 · HealthTHE WESTE…SOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE INC: $16,100 · HealthSOUTHEAST…THE BLUE DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $13,600 · HealthRELIANCE HEALTH INC: $13,600 · Health+13 more: $64,875 · Health+13 moreGarde Arts Center Inc: $80,500 · Arts & CultureGarde Art…NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $61,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL …YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC: $13,500 · Arts & CultureYELLOW FA…THE WRITER'S BLOCK INK INC: $9,250 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC: $9,250 · Arts & Culture+13 more: $66,275 · Arts & Culture+13 moreWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $89,100 · EducationHIGHER EDGE INC: $33,800 · EducationTHE NORWICH FREE ACADEMY: $27,050 · EducationWATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $16,000 · EducationMYSTIC & NOANK LIBRARY INC: $13,100 · EducationCONNECTICUT COLLEGE: $7,500 · Education+4 more: $21,800 · EducationOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED: $47,500 · Housing & ShelterALWAYS HOME INC: $47,400 · Housing & ShelterHabitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut Inc: $34,200 · Housing & ShelterWESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC: $25,200 · Housing & ShelterEASTERN CONNECTICUT HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $21,100 · Housing & ShelterThe Covenant Shelter of New London Inc: $19,800 · Housing & ShelterMALTA INC: $9,700 · Housing & ShelterNORWICH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO: $89,999 · Community ImprovementNORWICH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 · Community ImprovementTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $24,500 · Community ImprovementConnecticut Main Street Center Inc: $7,500 · Community Improvement+1 more: $3,500 · Community Improvement
Other$1,549,539Human Services$355,991Health$259,375Arts & Culture$239,775Education$208,350Housing & Shelter$204,900Community Improvement$150,999

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNORWICH COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIO: $89,999 over 3y, 6.1% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $89,100 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetGarde Arts Center Inc: $80,500 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC: $61,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC: $61,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES DIOCESE OF NORWICH INC: $60,900 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetChamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Inc: $55,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetNEW LONDON AREA FOOD PANTRY: $52,600 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetMartin House Inc: $48,600 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED: $47,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetALWAYS HOME INC: $47,400 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetLAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $45,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $41,300 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC: $40,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE NORWICH INC: $35,800 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetTHE JONNYCAKE CENTER OF WESTERLY INC: $34,600 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity of Eastern Connecticut Inc: $34,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHER EDGE INC: $33,800 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetFURNITURE BANK OF SOUTHEAST CONNECTICUT INC: $33,500 over 3y, 19% of budgetNEW LONDON HOMELESS HOSPITALITY CENTER: $32,800 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $28,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMadonna Place Inc: $28,200 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetThames River Community Service Inc: $27,800 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NORWICH FREE ACADEMY: $27,050 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE Inc: $26,500 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetRiverfront Childrens Center Inc: $25,950 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNORWICH ROTARY FOUNDATION INC: $25,500 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetWESTERLY AREA REST MEALS (WARM) INC: $25,200 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $24,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCare & Share of East Lyme Inc: $22,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SPEAKS OUT INC: $21,500 over 3y, 4.3% of budgetUnited Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: $21,200 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEASTERN CONNECTICUT HOUSING OPPORTUNITIES INC: $21,100 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Covenant Shelter of New London Inc: $19,800 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetEASTERN CONNECTICUT WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC: $19,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION: $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe William W Backus Hospital: $18,600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHREE RIVERS COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $18,600 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE WESTERLY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $17,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW ENGLAND SCIENCE & SAILING FOUNDATION INC: $17,100 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHEASTERN COUNCIL ON ALCOHOLISM AND DRUG DEPENDENCE INC: $16,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWATERFORD COUNTRY SCHOOL INC: $16,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetInterdistrict Committee For Project Oceanology: $15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: $13,750 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BLUE DOOR FOUNDATION INC: $13,600 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetRELIANCE HEALTH INC: $13,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC: $13,500 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetSTEPS Inc: $13,100 over 4y, 2.5% 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.

Dime Bank Foundation …The Community Foundat…Liberty Bank Foundati…The Edward and Mary L…Connecticut Humanitie…Centreville Savings B…Dominion Energy Chari…William Caspar Graust…Sbm Charitable Founda…United Way of Southea…Kitchings Family Foun…Hartford Foundation f…
Dime Bank Foundation IncCT159.7× affinity79 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 510%1%5%11%20%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 18%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
51get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
21rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 600 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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