· Public charity
Child First Inc
Child first helps to heal and protect children and families from the devastating effects of trauma and chronic stress by fostering the development of strong, nurturing, caregiver-child relationships, promoting adult capacity, and connecting families with services.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2020.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $1,569,648 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $3,745,074 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,175,426 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP | $1,569,648 |
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 (FY17–18, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
8 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2020, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.6M 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
- FAFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC2× · 2017–2018 · $669k · revenue +6%
- TCThe Charlotte Hungerford Hospital2× · 2017–2018 · $640k · revenue +78%
- CGCOMMUNITY GUIDANCE CLINIC FOR CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC2× · 2017–2018 · $623k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- NPNURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIPone grant, 2020 · $1.6M · revenue +3%
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.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
The child and family guidance center (cfgc) is a community-based center that provides therapeutic, prevention, early intervention as well as support services to children and families in fairfield county ct. since 1925, cfgc has provided…
To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
The mission of Natchaug Hospital is to provide a continuum of accessible, community-based services for those living with psychiatric illness and chemical dependency or emotional and related educational disabilities, with a commitment to…
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Upper connecticut valley hospital strives to improve the well-being of the rural communities it serves by promoting health and assuring access to quality care.
Empower patients to partner with staff for an unparalleled healthcare experience through integrated primary care services teams in a learning environment. we deliver high quality, affordable care to every patient during all stages of life.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
Cfha supports healthcare professionals in integrating physical and behavioral health.
Children's center serves children, youth and families through comprehensive mental health services.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community and Family Servicesinc and the most unlike its peers is The Intercommunity Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 NURSE-FAMILY PARTNERSHIP ↗
- Who funds THE INTERCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC ↗
- Who funds The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY GUIDANCE CLINIC FOR CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
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.
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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 Child First 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.
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Wheeler Clinic Inc — 47% of income from government
- Community Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut Inc — 39% of income from government
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% of income from government
- United Community and Family Servicesinc — 29% of income from government
- The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital — 3% 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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