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Conn Breast Health Initiative Inc

To make a difference locally in the fight against breast cancer through education and research.

$316k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$218k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead

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

5
’17
2
’18
5
’19
2
’20
3
’21
2
’23
5
’24
2
’25

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

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 2025.

Health$1.1MScience & Tech$169k
02FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • $10k–50k4 grants · $99k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $218k
$20,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$800k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CT HEALTH CENTER$217,636
ST FRANCIS HOSPITAL$40,000
THE HOSPITAL OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT$20,000
NORMA PFRIEM BREAST CARE CENTER$20,000
MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER$18,728
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.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$961k · 5 repeat orgs$147k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

$961k
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+7%

Still filing today

60%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER
    6× · 2017–2025 · $536k
  • SF
    SAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER
    4× · 2019–2024 · $152k · revenue 0%
  • TH
    The Hospital of Central Connecticut
    7× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • TS
    The Stamford Hospitalgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $50k · revenue +59%
  • TN
    The Norwalk Hospital Association
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +7%
  • TW
    The Witness Project of Connecticut Inc
    one grant, 2017 · $29k · revenue -94%
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
Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
2
The Miriam Hospital

As a founding hospital in the Brown University Health system, TMH is committed to its mission: Delivering health with care.

Health
3
Svmc Holdings Inc

To improve the health and well-being of all people in the communities we serve.

Health
4
The Danbury Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
5
The William W Backus Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health
6
Putnam Hospital Center

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
7
Northern Dutchess Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
8
Yale New Haven Hospital

The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.

Health
9
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
10
MaineHealth

MaineHealth is a voluntary, not-for-profit community and referral system of hospitals, dedicated to providing high quality health care services to all persons who seek care regardless of their sex, race, religion, age, color, sexual…

Health
11
Vassar Health Connecticut Inc

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
12
Vassar Brothers Hospital

Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Middlesex Hospital; 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.
04the grantee network

9 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. 9 of the 10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/9
Grantees still filing
5/9
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER: $536,154 · OtherUNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTERNORMA F PFRIEM FOUNDATION: $45,700 · OtherNORMA F PFRIEM FOUNDATIONThe Witness Project of Connecticut Inc: $28,500 · OtherSAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $152,380 · HealthSAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTERThe Hospital of Central Connecticut: $144,995 · HealthThe Hospital of Central ConnecticutMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $82,044 · HealthMIDDLESEX HOSPITALThe Stamford Hospital: $50,000 · HealthThe Stamford HospitalThe Norwalk Hospital Association: $50,000 · HealthThe Norwalk Hospital AssociationMidstate Medical Center: $18,728 · HealthYale University: $169,275 · EducationYale University
Other$610,354Health$498,147Education$169,275

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetYale University: $169,275 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOSPITAL AND MEDICAL CENTER: $152,380 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital of Central Connecticut: $144,995 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMIDDLESEX HOSPITAL: $82,044 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Stamford Hospital: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Norwalk Hospital Association: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORMA F PFRIEM FOUNDATION: $45,700 over 3y, 86% of budgetThe Witness Project of Connecticut Inc: $28,500 over 1y, 22% of budgetMidstate Medical Center: $18,728 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.

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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 Conn Breast Health Initiative Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Conn Breast Health Initiative Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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

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Find your warmest path to Conn Breast Health Initiative 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 10 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.

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