Connecticut · Public charity
Columbus House Inc
Columbus house serves people experiencing homelessness or at imminent risk by providing life-saving outreach, shelter, and housing and by fostering their personal growth and independence. We advocate for and create affordable housing to end homelessness in our communities.
- $268k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 5
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $54,775
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $62,604
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $17M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Columbus House Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 54% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $264k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 5 | $268k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $485k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $227k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $218k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $248k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $221k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $132k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $190k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc | $524,703 | 9 | 9% |
| BHcare Inc | $416,250 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Greater New Haven Inc | $364,157 | 7 | 1% |
| The Connection Inc | $214,765 | 6 | 0% |
| Women and Families Center | $195,173 | 4 | 2% |
| Upon This Rock Ministries Inc | $191,817 | 1 | n/a |
| St Vincent Depaul Middletown | $126,099 | 3 | 1% |
| New Opportunities Inc | $117,857 | 2 | 0% |
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Columbus House Inc
- How much does Columbus House Inc give?
- Columbus House Inc reported 5 grants totaling $268,236 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Columbus House Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (25%), Crime & Legal (24%), Philanthropy (17%).
- Who are Columbus House Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc ($525k), BHcare Inc ($416k), United Way of Greater New Haven Inc ($364k).
- Does Columbus House Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Columbus House Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include United Way of Greater New Haven Inc, Liberty Bank Foundation Inc, Eversource Energy Foundation Inc.
- Where is Columbus House Inc based?
- Columbus House Inc is based in CT.
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