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Community Connections Foundation Inc

To operate exclusively for charitable and educational purposes; and to receive, administer and distribute funds in connection with any activities related to the above purposes.

$132k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Health$376kHuman Services$266kEducation$232kHousing & Shelter$110kYouth Development$78kInternational$26kRecreation & Sports$11kArts & Culture$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 13 grants below total $125,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $131,750 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $6,750 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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $35k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $90k
$5,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$217k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Boston Medical Center$25,000
Bright Spirit Childrens Foundation$25,000
My Brothers Keeper$10,000
Cystic Fibrosis Foundatoin$10,000
Spencer Education Foundation Inc$10,000
Boston Healthcare for the Homeless$10,000
Community Health Resources$5,000
Travis Mills$5,000
Girl Scouts of Southeastern NE$5,000
Watertown Boys & Girls Club$5,000
ALSACSt Jude Childrens Research$5,000
Boys & Girls Club of Providence$5,000
Campus School at Boston College$5,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $115k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 91% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Hospice Of Central PA: $20k → 12%Capstone Community Action: $5k → 9%Easter Seals NH: $5k → 7%Hospice Of Central PA: $10k → 12%Boston Healthcare for the Homeless: $10k → 16%Boston Healthcare for the Homeless: $10k → 16%Boston Healthcare for the Homeless: $8k → 16%Boston Healthcare for the Homeless: $5k → 16%Boston Healthcare for the Homeless: $5k → 16%Boston Healthcare For the Homeless: $5k → 16%BOSTON HEALTHCARE FOR THE HOMELESS: $5k → 16%HORIZON FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN: $17k → 16%Horizons for Homeless Children: $10k → 16%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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VT
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MN
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NY
MA
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RI
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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$948k · 23 repeat orgs$190k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
22

Total granted

$948k
$155k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+23%

Still filing today

83%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthEducationHuman ServicesInternationalYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue +88%
  • CS
    COTTING SCHOOL INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $91k · revenue +28%
  • MH
    MIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC
    5× · 2017–2021 · $78k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • D
    DONORSCHOOSEORG
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +1%
  • AL
    AMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSNgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $13k · revenue +122%
  • NE
    NEW ENGLAND PARKINSONS RIDE
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
2
Commonwealth Care Alliance Inc

Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.

Health
3
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
4
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
5
Neighborhealth Corporation

Neighborhealth's mission is to promote and sustain healthy communities, families, and individuals by providing accessible, person-centered, and compassionate, high-quality health care services to all who live and work in our service area,…

Health
6
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Saratoga Care Inc

To serve the people of the Saratoga region by providing them access to excellence in healthcare in a supportive and caring environment.

Health
9
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
10
Brighton Marine Inc

Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.

Health
11
MaineGeneral Health

To enhance, every day, the health of our patients, our families and our communities. We do that through a range of health care services for people of all ages, in a variety of care settings.

Health
12
Care Dimensions Inc

Care dimensions, inc. (cd) enriches quality of life by providing expert care, support, education, and consultation for those affected by life limiting illness, death, and loss.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish of New Hampshire Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyHealth Access Advocacy and …Community FoundationsCancer Support ServicesYouth Development CentersYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsAffordable Housing Developm…Independent K-12 Schools
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 39 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number20%0%<5yr14%4%5–10yr20%17%10–20yr19%24%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr14%33%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value20%0%<5yr14%1%5–10yr20%22%10–20yr19%30%20–35yr14%19%35–55yr14%28%55yr+

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/50
the rest of the field
11%
4,714/42,308

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.

04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 51 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
32/44
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BRIGHT SPIRIT CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC — $183,000 · OtherBRIGHT SPIRIT CHILDRENS FOUNDATION IN…Cystic Fibrosis Foundatoin — $20,000 · OtherCAPE COD HEALTHCARE INC — $20,000 · OtherNURTURY INC — $15,100 · Other+20 more — $137,900 · Other+20 moreBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $132,500 · HealthBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORP…COMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES INC — $45,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES…South Shore Mental Health Center Inc — $20,800 · HealthSouth Shore Mental Health …VNA Care Network Inc — $20,000 · HealthVNA Care Network IncAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $13,100 · HealthLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC — $12,500 · HealthNEW ENGLAND PARKINSONS RIDE — $10,000 · HealthMy Brother's Keeper Inc — $10,000 · Health+1 more — $5,000 · HealthCOTTING SCHOOL INC — $90,600 · EducationCOTTING SCHOOL INCTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $56,100 · EducationTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SC…SPENCER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 · EducationSPENCER EDUCATIONAL F…DONORSCHOOSEORG — $20,000 · EducationDONORSCHOOSEORG+2 more — $10,000 · EducationBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $47,500 · Human ServicesBOSTON HEAL…HOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA — $30,000 · Human ServicesHOSPICE OF …HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $27,000 · Human ServicesHORIZONS FO…CAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesMIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC — $78,000 · Housing & ShelterCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterRodman For Kids Inc — $48,100 · PhilanthropyBest Buddies International Inc — $10,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC — $10,000 · InternationalONE ACRE FUND — $6,000 · InternationalDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE — $5,100 · International
Other$376,000Health$268,900Education$216,700Human Services$114,500Housing & Shelter$83,000Philanthropy$48,100International$31,100

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBOSTON MEDICAL CENTER CORPORATION — $132,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCOTTING SCHOOL INC — $90,600 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMIDDLESEX HUMAN SERVICE AGENCY INC — $78,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FRANCIS OUIMET SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC — $56,100 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRodman For Kids Inc — $48,100 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetBOSTON HEALTH CARE FOR THE HOMELESS PROGRAM INC — $47,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES INC — $45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSPENCER EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHOSPICE OF CENTRAL PENNSYLVANIA — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN — $27,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSouth Shore Mental Health Center Inc — $20,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVNA Care Network Inc — $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNURTURY INC — $15,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMYOTROPHIC LATERAL SCLEROSIS ASSN — $13,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFE SCIENCE CARES INC — $12,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE PROVIDENCE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTERS INC — $11,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PARKINSONS RIDE — $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetWATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Brother's Keeper Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPRINGFIELD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetONE ACRE FUND — $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS WORLDWIDE — $5,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGIRL SCOUTS OF SOUTHEASTERN NEW ENGLAND — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJUNIPER OUTREACH FOUNDATION — $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Eastern Bank Foundati…Boston Foundation IncFidelity FoundationRockland Trust Charit…United Way Of Massach…Citizens Charitable F…Amica Companies Found…Amelia Peabody Charit…Cambridge Savings Cha…Joy In Childhood Foun…Salem Five Charitable…United Way of Rhode I…
Eastern Bank FoundationMA22.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · Amica Companies Foundation · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Joy In Childhood Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way of Rhode Island 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 Community Connections Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • Capstone Community Action Inc — 84% of income from government
  • Community Health Resources Inc — 79% of income from government
  • Nurtury Inc — 49% of income from government
  • South Shore Mental Health Center Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Cardinal Cushing Centers Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
  • Middlesex Human Service Agency Inc — 17% of income from government
  • Springfield Jewish Community Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Watertown Boys and Girls' Club Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Camp Harbor View Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Central Vermont Chamber of Commerce Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Bottom Line Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Cotting School Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Community Connections Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Community Connections Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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