· Public charity
Conn Breast Health Initiative Inc
To make a difference locally in the fight against breast cancer through education and research.
Read this first · the figures below need context
72% of Conn Breast Health Initiative Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to Yale University, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 2 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Conn Breast Health Initiative Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $316k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- $10k–50k4 grants · $99k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $218k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CT HEALTH CENTER | $217,636 |
| ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL | $40,000 |
| NORMA PFRIEM BREAST CARE CENTER | $20,000 |
| THE HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT | $20,000 |
| MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER | $18,728 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER6× · 2017–2025 · $536k
- SFSAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER4× · 2019–2024 · $152k · revenue -12%
- THThe Hospital of Central Connecticut7× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +99%
Funded once
- TSThe Stamford Hospitalgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +49%
- TNThe Norwalk Hospital Associationone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +6%
- TWThe Witness Project of Connecticut Incone grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue -94%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
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To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
To improve the health and well-being of all people in the communities we serve.
The mission of Natchaug Hospital is to provide a continuum of accessible, community-based services for those living with psychiatric illness and chemical dependency or emotional and related educational disabilities, with a commitment to…
The mission of Windham Community Memorial Hospital is to offer comprehensive services in an environment where innovation and teaching are integral to care; where we are proud to serve patients and one another; where meeting the challenge…
Hartford HealthCare's mission is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities it serves.
To raise funds, reinvest and administer these funds and make distributions to danbury and new milford hospitals and other not-for profit health care affiliates.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Middlesex Hospital and the most unlike its peers is Norma F Pfriem Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds The Hospital of Central Connecticut ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
- Who funds The Norwalk Hospital Association ↗
- Who funds NORMA F PFRIEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds The Witness Project of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds Midstate Medical Center ↗
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.
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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 Conn Breast Health Initiative 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.
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Norwalk Hospital Association — 1% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Midstate Medical Center — 0% of income from government
- Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center — 0% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital — 0% of income from government
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.
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