· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k2 grants · $91k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $177k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER | $62,604 |
| UNITED WAY | $60,000 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $54,775 |
| NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC | $45,857 |
| BH CARE | $45,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
7 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CVCONNECTICUT VETERANS LEGAL CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $525k · revenue +65%
- BIBHcare Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $416k · revenue +23%
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC7× · 2017–2025 · $364k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- UTUPON THIS ROCK MINISTRIES INCone grant, 2024 · $192k
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.
7 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 7 of the 8 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Columbus House Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Columbus House Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Connection Inc: 99% of income from government
- New Opportunities Inc: 70% of income from government
- BHcare Inc: 68% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc: 42% of income from government
- Women and Families Center: 18% of income from government
- Connecticut Veterans Legal Center Inc: 12% of income from government
- St Vincent Depaul Middletown: 6% of income from government
How this is measured
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