· Private foundation
Claire L Helsing Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k24 grants · $90k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $57k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTICUT FOOD BANK | $14,000 |
| BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY | $12,000 |
| NEW COVENANT HOUSE OF HOSPITALITY | $11,000 |
| CAMPAIGN FOR JUSTICE CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC | $10,000 |
| ACLU OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT | $7,500 |
| FERGUSON LIBRARY | $7,000 |
| CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS | $6,500 |
| STAMFORD HIGH SCHOOL- STRAWBERRY HILL PLAYERS | $6,500 |
| THE ROWAN CENTER FKA CENTER FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CRISIS COUNSELING AND EDUC | $5,000 |
| SHELTER FOR THE HOMELESS AKA PACIFIC HOUSE | $5,000 |
| DOMUS FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC | $5,000 |
| FAIRGATE FARM INC | $5,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD | $4,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $68k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC8× · 2017–2024 · $88k · revenue +153%
- CLCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC8× · 2017–2024 · $70k · revenue +23%
- BOBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP6× · 2019–2024 · $59k · revenue +245%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF STAMFORD HIGHone grant, 2019 · $9k
- PHPACIFIC HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $4k · revenue +68%
CAREER RESOURCES INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +192%
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.
Wfc is committed to promoting equity and to improving quality of life through services that foster empowerment and independence. our guiding vision: to be the leading agent for positive social change.
Readyct works to advance academic excellence and career-connected learning for all public school students in connecticut through collaboration with business, civic, and education leaders.
Positively impacting the lives of our clients and their communities by providing services that facilitate skill development, enhance responsible citizenship, and increase overall well-being.
United way of connecticut is proud to be a trusted and vital resource for help and information about what the people of connecticut need. we respond to requests for food, housing, health care, child care, child development resources,…
A regional workforce investment board serving 37 municipalities in north central ct. the board coordinates comprehensive programs for job seeking employees.
The organization provides job training, placement, and counseling for dislocated and economically disadvantaged individuals in the bridgeport, norwalk, stamford and valley labor market areas.
Provide job training through various programs.
To help connecticut manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques to become more competitive, supporting the growth of connecticut economy.
The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.
Provides early educational programs which include head start, school readiness, and child day care in lower fairfield county. clc serves over 800 students age six weeks to five years old.
United way of greater new haven brings people and organizations together to create solutions to our region's most pressing challenges in the areas of education, health, and financial stability, grounded in racial and social justice. we…
The stamford partnership is the city's and region's predominant economic and community development organization. the stamford partnership is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that brings companies, governments, nonprofits, & people together to…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mill River Collaborative Inc and the most unlike its peers is Interfaith Council of Southwestern Connecticut 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 40 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
26 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. 26 of the 40 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 CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE FERGUSON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROWAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
- Who funds Interfaith Council of Southwestern Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD PEACE YOUTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds BACK TO SCHOOL SHOP INC ↗
- Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds STARFISH CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CAREER RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Impact 100 Fairfield County · Garden Homes Fund · Lone Pine Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts
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 Claire L Helsing 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.
- Mill River Collaborative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
- Women's Mentoring Network Inc — 1% 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.