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City Missionary Association of New Haven
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
100% of City Missionary Association of New Haven’s FY2023 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation For Greater New Haven, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2023 names 0 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year City Missionary Association of New Haven named its own grantees at scale: 23 organizations, $130k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FISH OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $5,000 |
| YOUTH CONTINUUM | $5,000 |
| LEAP | $5,000 |
| CLIFFORD BEERS CLINIC | $5,000 |
| CONNECTICUT BURN CARE FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES | $5,000 |
| INTEGRATED REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES | $5,000 |
| INTERFAITH VOLUNTEER CAREGIVERS | $5,000 |
| HABITAT OF HUMANITY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $5,000 |
| CT URBAN EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| NEW REACH INC | $5,000 |
| LIFE HAVEN | $5,000 |
| JUNTA FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION | $5,000 |
| FELLOWSHIP PLACE | $5,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +44% since the first grant, against -34% for the ones you funded once.
34 repeat relationships — 33 still active in FY2021, 1 since wound down. Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2022, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- FPFELLOWSHIP PLACE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +50%
- CBCLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC6× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +44%
- CHCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC6× · 2017–2022 · $35k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- LVLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER NEW HAVENone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue -34%
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 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…
Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
The corporation is engaged in encouraging the cooperative efforts of neighborhood representatives, government and participating lending institutions in a combined effort to stem the decline and deterioration of the housing within the city…
To grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.
Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.
Habitat for humanity of northwest ct, inc. is a non-profit organization whose purpose is to construct and rehabilitate homes for needy individuals and families in northwest connecticut.
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 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.
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Christian Community Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Life Haven Inc. 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 46 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 36 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds NEW REACH INC ↗
- Who funds FELLOWSHIP PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERTY COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds FISH OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds JUNTA FOR PROGRESSIVE ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CONTINUUM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Community Soup Kitchen Incorporated ↗
- Who funds CASA OTONAL INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERED SERVICES OF CT FORMERLY COORDINAT ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN IN PLACEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds WHEAT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds FARNAM NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · Yale University · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Lewis G Schaeneman Jr Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Ardenghi Af Gen Charit Purpose · Eder Family Foundation Inc · North Haven Rotary Foundation Inc
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 City Missionary Association of New Haven 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.
- Family Centered Services of Ct Formerly Coordinat — 100% of income from government
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Connection Inc — 99% of income from government
- Liberty Community Services — 78% of income from government
- Youth Continuum Inc — 76% of income from government
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- Fellowship Place Inc — 66% of income from government
- Casa Otonal Inc — 59% of income from government
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc — 47% of income from government
- Emerge Connecticut Inc — 47% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Junta for Progressive Action Inc — 35% of income from government
- Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
- Wheat Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% 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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