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Connecticut Foodshare Inc

The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.

$100M
Granted FY2025still arriving
17
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
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 FY2022–2025.

Food & Nutrition$2.5MHousing & Shelter$136kHuman Services$101kReligion$45kPublic Safety & Disaster$18kHealth$11kEducation$10k
02FY2025 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 17 grants below total $154,100 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $100,242,203 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $100,088,103 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k10 grants · $67k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $87k
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$55M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OPEN HEARTH ASSOCIATION$14,700
SEYMOUR OXFORD FOOD BANK INC$14,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY - NEW COVENANT CENTER$14,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$13,700
HORACE BUSHNELL CHILDRENS FOOD PANTRY$10,500
COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN$10,000
FRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK$10,000
IGLESIA FUENTE DE SALVACION MISIONERA$9,300
ST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE$8,000
THE SALVATION ARMY -NORWALK CORPS$7,400
STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC$7,200
CHRYSALIS CENTER INC$7,000
INTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES OF PUTNAM$6,200
SHILOH BAPTIST CHURCH$6,100
THE SALVATION ARMY MERIDEN$5,500
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.

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.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 14% of Connecticut Foodshare Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 85% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Connecticut Foodshare Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.1% directed abroad (not shown)

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

35%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$985k · 18 repeat orgs$1.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
79

Total granted

$985k
$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
0%

Still filing today

67%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Food & NutritionHuman ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationHealthReligionOther

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

  • DB
    Daily Bread An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $96k · revenue +873%
  • CS
    COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC
    2× · 2023–2025 · $90k · revenue +66%
  • BR
    BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $68k · revenue +16%

Funded once

  • CC
    CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD
    one grant, 2023 · $132k · revenue +10%
  • TU
    THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2024 · $127k
  • DE
    DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $114k · revenue +131%

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
New London Area Food Pantry

Serving the residents of New London and Southeastern CT by offering a selection of groceries to those who cannot afford to meet their nutritional needs otherwise.

Human Services
2
Essex Food Hub Inc

Providing nutritious food to low-to-moderate income families by processing and delivering food grown by local farmers.

Education
3
Fish of Greater New Haven Inc

To provide food to those in need, fish delivers free groceries to people with food insecurity issues and delivers free groceries to the homebound who are low income and food insecure.

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4
Farmington Food Pantry Inc

To provide a respectful, empowering environment, where supplemental food and personal care items are available to individuals who need assistance in farmington, ct.

Food & Nutrition
5
Hartford Catholic Worker Inc

The mission of Hartford Catholic Worker is to practice the works of mercy. We do this through our work with children and families in our neighborhood, helping to make sure the hungry are fed and helping secure housing for the homeless.

International
6
Connecticut Foodshare Inc

The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.

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7
Community Food Bank

To fight hunger and poverty by providing food, education, programs and resources to families in a dignified, personal and expeditious manner directly as a food pantry and as a food bank; without zip code restrictions.

Food & Nutrition
8
Food Pantry of North Branford Inc

To serve the people in our community by providing food and other household necessities to those in need.

Human Services
9
Hartford Food System Inc

Fight hunger & improve nutrition for the disadvantaged via sustainable, non-emergency strategies.Programs are implemented to improve access to nutritious & affordable food, help consumers make informed food choices & advance responsible…

Food & Nutrition
10
Comfort Food of Washington County Inc

The mission of Comfort Food Community is to fight rural hunger with innovative programming that expands access to healthy food and builds community partnerships for lasting change.

Food & Nutrition
11
Meals-On-Wheels of New Canaan Inc

Our mission is to ensure that every potential client identified by the town of new canaan or the southwestern connecticut commission on aging, or referred to us by family, friends, medical personnel, or church group will be serviced for as…

Community Improvement
12
Middlebury Transitional Care Coalition

Provide emergency shelter for individuals who have become homeless, and a community meal program 7 days per week and social services case management and referrals as requested.

Housing & Shelter

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant Soup Kitchen Inc and the most unlike its peers is Epoch Arts 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 backsteadyCause-Focused FoundationsPublic Sector Labor UnionsLabor Union LocalsUnion and Employer Health P…Hospital & Health Care Syst…Professional Trade Associat…Developmental Disabilities …Youth Academic Enrichment P…
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 36 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%1%<5yr12%8%5–10yr18%11%10–20yr18%23%20–35yr13%30%35–55yr19%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%6%5–10yr18%5%10–20yr18%22%20–35yr13%20%35–55yr19%46%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% 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 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/100
the rest of the field
10%
1,844/18,336

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.

05the grantee network

68 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. 68 of the 105 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
66/68
Grantees still filing
39/68
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

ACCESS AGENCY INC — $161,500 · OtherACCESS AGENCY INCTHE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST — $126,800 · OtherTHE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRISTDOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC — $114,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INCUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCE — $67,500 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL DIOCESE OF CONNECTICUT — $66,700 · OtherTHE SALVATION ARMY — $59,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC — $55,500 · Other+56 more — $1,013,601 · Other+56 moreENFIELD FOOD SHELF INC — $97,900 · Food & NutritionENFIELD FOOD SHELF …Daily Bread An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc — $95,500 · Food & NutritionDaily Bread An Ecum…COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC — $90,000 · Food & NutritionCOVENANT SOUP KITCH…NUTRITION SECURITY SOLUTIONS INC — $73,000 · Food & NutritionNUTRITION SECURITY …HILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC — $54,000 · Food & NutritionHILLSIDE FOOD OUTRE…+8 more — $79,100 · Food & Nutrition+8 moreCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD — $132,000 · Human ServicesCATHOLIC CHAR…BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC — $68,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RE…Association of Religious Communities Inc — $19,900 · Human ServicesAssociation o…SHILOH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $19,700 · Human ServicesSHILOH DEVELO…HANDS ON HARTFORD INC — $16,300 · Human ServicesSTERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $16,200 · Human ServicesALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC — $13,600 · Human Services+5 more — $39,800 · Human Services+5 moreSOUTH PARK INN INC — $44,500 · Housing & ShelterFriendship Service Center Inc — $29,500 · Housing & ShelterNEW REACH INC — $27,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE OPEN HEARTH ASSOCIATION — $14,700 · Housing & ShelterSt Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc — $14,000 · Housing & ShelterPARK CITY INITIATIVE CORPORATION — $11,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $19,800 · EducationHOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 · EducationGOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 · EducationASNUNTUCK COMMUNITY - TECHNICAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $6,800 · EducationTHE STOREHOUSE PROJECT INC — $33,800 · ReligionNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC — $20,000 · ReligionCOMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $23,400 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES INC — $11,200 · HealthNew Horizons Living Center Inc — $10,000 · HealthALLIANCE FOR LIVING INC — $7,700 · Health
Other$1,664,601Food & Nutrition$489,500Human Services$325,500Housing & Shelter$140,700Education$57,600Religion$53,800Health$52,300

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 budgetACCESS AGENCY INC — $161,500 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD — $132,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC — $114,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetENFIELD FOOD SHELF INC — $97,900 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetDaily Bread An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc — $95,500 over 2y, 12% of budgetCOVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC — $90,000 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetNUTRITION SECURITY SOLUTIONS INC — $73,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC — $68,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC — $55,500 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetST VINCENT DE PAUL PLACE NORWICH INC — $54,300 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC — $54,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetUnited Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — $45,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTH PARK INN INC — $44,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL MIDDLETOWN — $40,018 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $35,600 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWHEAT INC — $35,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE STOREHOUSE PROJECT INC — $33,800 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetINTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES — $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFriendship Service Center Inc — $29,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNEW REACH INC — $27,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH SERVICES INC — $23,400 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTHE NEW LONDON COMMUNITY MEAL CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetHOUSE OF BREAD INC — $19,900 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAssociation of Religious Communities Inc — $19,900 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $19,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHILOH DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION — $19,700 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetHOCKANUM VALLEY COMMUNITY COUNCIL — $19,600 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHANDS ON HARTFORD INC — $16,300 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSTERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $16,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLOAVES AND FISHES NEW HAVEN INC — $15,100 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetKLINGBERG COMPREHENSIVE FAMILY SERVICES INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSt Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc — $14,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetALTERNATIVE SERVICES - CONNECTICUT INC — $13,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaster's Manna Inc — $12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY SERVICES COUNCIL OF WOODBURY INC — $12,200 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetHEBRON INTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES INC — $11,200 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH RESOURCES INC — $11,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARK CITY INITIATIVE CORPORATION — $11,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCARING FOR BETHLEHEM INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetGOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew Horizons Living Center Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCAPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $9,100 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC — $9,100 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF NORTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC — $9,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetWindsor Food and Fuel Bank Inc — $8,500 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALLIANCE FOR LIVING INC — $7,700 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Liberty Bank Foundati…Hartford Foundation f…Newalliance Foundatio…William Caspar Graust…United Way Inc United…Farmington Bank Commu…The Maximilian E and …Webster Bank Charitab…Eversource Energy Fou…The Community Foundat…Arbella Insurance Fou…Aetna Foundation Inc
Liberty Bank Foundation IncCT49.2× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Newalliance Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Aetna Foundation 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 Connecticut Foodshare 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 · 230%3%10%23%40%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 30%
  • Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
  • Friendship Service Center Inc — 85% of income from government
  • Connecticut Partnership for Children Inc — 84% of income from government
  • The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc — 81% of income from government
  • Access Agency Inc — 79% of income from government
  • Community Health Resources Inc — 79% of income from government
  • Alliance for Living Inc — 72% of income from government
  • The Open Hearth Association — 59% of income from government
  • The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
  • New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
  • The New London Community Meal Center Inc — 44% of income from government
  • Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford — 39% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
  • St Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc — 31% of income from government
  • Community Health Services Inc — 30% of income from government
  • South Park Inn Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Hockanum Valley Community Council — 20% of income from government
  • Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Sterling House Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Association of Religious Communities Inc — 6% of income from government
  • St Vincent Depaul Middletown — 6% of income from government
  • St Vincent De Paul Place Norwich Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The University of Bridgeport Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Wheat Inc — 3% of income from government
  • United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
  • New Horizons Living Center Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
23get no government money at all
13report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
8rely on government for over half their income
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.

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 105 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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