· Community foundation
Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc
To assist and promote the well being of the inhabitants of middlesex county and its vicinity by, among other activities, engaging in charitable activities and extending financial aid through grants, contributions, or other aid or assistance.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $77k
- $10k–50k23 grants · $487k
- $50k–250k10 grants · $790k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE CONSERVANCY | $140,965 |
| PAULINE BALDWIN FOOD PANTRY | $100,832 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC | $89,790 |
| HOUSE OF BREAD INC | $83,590 |
| HEALING MEALS COMMUNITY PROJECT | $83,590 |
| EASTERN CONNECTICUT CONSERVATION | $82,241 |
| ST JOHN ROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH | $53,645 |
| FRIENDS OF SOUTHINGTON COMMUNITY SE | $52,541 |
| BREAD FOR LIFE INC | $52,541 |
| ST JOHN PAUL II REGIONAL SCHOOL | $50,645 |
| EAST HAMPTON VOLUNTEER FOOD AND FUE | $49,753 |
| MARLBOROUGH FOOD BANK INC | $40,326 |
| CITIZEN'S CAMPAIGN FUND FOR THE | $40,000 |
| MERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG ME | $37,582 |
| COLLECTIVE OYSTER RECYCLING & | $27,500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $807k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 34 still active in FY2025, 15 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $204k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MCMADISON COMMUNITY SERVICES4× · 2022–2025 · $399k · revenue +24% · 90% of their budget
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC4× · 2022–2025 · $388k · revenue +30%
- HOHOUSE OF BREAD INC4× · 2022–2025 · $367k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- TMTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INCone grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue +24%
- ILIVORYTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2019 · $51k · revenue +11%
- PCPlainville Community Food Pantry Incgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +53%
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.
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.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
To provide leadership and take initiatives for locally led conservation with the goal to protect soil, water and other natural resources of north central connecticut.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
The Newtown Forest Association is the oldest private land trust organization in Connecticut. It has been dedicated for one hundred years to securing for the residents of Newtown and for posterity generally the benefits derived from open…
To inspire, support, and certify sustainability actions by connecticut towns and cities.
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
To promote the sound use and management of natural resources. the district provides technical assistance and education in soil and water conservation and control.
Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land
Preservation of open space in watertown, ct; maintenance of owned and conserved properties and public education of enviromental issues.
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
How this is measured
74 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 74 of the 107 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.
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MADISON COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds EAST HAMPTON VOLUNTEER FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Southington Community Services ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds GILEAD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Food Pantry of North Branford Inc ↗
- Who funds EASTERN CONNECTICUT CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLETOWN HIGH SCHOOL BLUE DRAGON BOOSTER CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KINGSWOOD OXFORD SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds IVORYTON LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds Plainville Community Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL MIDDLETOWN ↗
- Who funds CITIZENS CAMPAIGN FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Overcomer Training Center Inc ↗
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: Kitchings Family Foundation · Middlesex United Way Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · The Rockfall Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Carlson Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Connection Inc: 99% of income from government
- Unashamed Inc: 75% of income from government
- Gilead Community Services Inc: 62% of income from government
- Old Saybrook Land Trust Inc: 56% of income from government
- Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc: 55% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc: 40% of income from government
- Rushford Center Inc: 34% of income from government
- Area Congregations Together Inc: 30% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association: 16% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc: 15% of income from government
- Yale University: 12% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 7% of income from government
- St Vincent Depaul Middletown: 6% of income from government
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc: 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
- Essex Winter Series Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Community Music School Inc: 1% of income from government
- Incarnation Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Kingswood Oxford School Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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