Skip to content
Community Connections Foundation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· Public charity

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 it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 13 grants below total $125,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $131,750 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $6,750 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized 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
Spencer Education Foundation Inc$10,000
Boston Healthcare for the Homeless$10,000
Cystic Fibrosis Foundatoin$10,000
ALSACSt Jude Childrens Research$5,000
Boys & Girls Club of Providence$5,000
Campus School at Boston College$5,000
Watertown Boys & Girls Club$5,000
Community Health Resources$5,000
Travis Mills$5,000
Girl Scouts of Southeastern NE$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its 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
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
NH
MN
IL
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
TN
DC
MS
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +58% since the first grant, against +23% for those 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
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 +115%
  • 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%
  • CH
    CAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +229%
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.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.

—
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish of New Hampshire Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 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. 44 of the 51 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
31/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BRIGHT SPIRIT CHILDRENS FOUNDATION INC: $183,000 · OtherBRIGHT SPIRIT CHILDRENS FOUNDATION IN…CAPE COD HEALTHCARE INC: $20,000 · OtherCystic Fibrosis Foundatoin: $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 grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's 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 budgetDONORSCHOOSEORG: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVNA Care Network Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 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 budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPRINGFIELD JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWATERTOWN BOYS AND GIRLS' CLUB INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCAMP HARBOR VIEW FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEW ENGLAND PARKINSONS RIDE: $10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO CHILDREN: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMy Brother's Keeper Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOTTOM LINE INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% 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 budgetMAKE-A-WISH OF NEW HAMPSHIRE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRAVIS MILLS FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF PROVIDENCE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAPSTONE COMMUNITY ACTION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTPELIER DOWNTOWN COMMUNITY ASSOC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCENTRAL VERMONT CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCARITAS COMMUNITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern New Hampshire University: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARDINAL CUSHING CENTERS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIPER OUTREACH FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetEaster Seals New Hampshire Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LEBANESE SYRIAN ASSOCIATED CHARITIES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Community Connections Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Connections Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's 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
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 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 from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 51 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Community Connections’ filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home