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

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2025.

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

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 17 grants below total $154,100, the rows itemized in this filing. The $100,242,203 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $100,088,103 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 · 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
FRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK$10,000
COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN$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

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.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 14% of Connecticut Foodshare Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 98% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 85%.

Connecticut Foodshare Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 3.1% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

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

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +7% for those 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%
+7%

Still filing today

67%
62%

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
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

  • 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%
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
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
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
4
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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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
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
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
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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9
Catholic Charities Community Service of Rockland Inc

To provide, operate and supplement programs for the benefit of needy families and individuals, including the homeless and unemployed throughout rockland county, new york

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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
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
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
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Covenant Soup Kitchen Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

69 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. 69 of the 105 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/69
Grantees still filing
43/69
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and 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+55 more: $1,000,901 · Other+55 moreENFIELD FOOD SHELF INC: $97,900 · Food & NutritionENFIELD FOOD SHELF I…Daily Bread An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc: $95,500 · Food & NutritionDaily Bread An Ecume…COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC: $90,000 · Food & NutritionCOVENANT SOUP KITCHE…NUTRITION SECURITY SOLUTIONS INC: $73,000 · Food & NutritionNUTRITION SECURITY S…HILLSIDE FOOD OUTREACH INC: $54,000 · Food & NutritionHILLSIDE FOOD OUTREA…+9 more: $91,800 · Food & Nutrition+9 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$1,651,901Food & Nutrition$502,200Human Services$325,500Housing & Shelter$140,700Education$57,600Religion$53,800Health$52,300

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 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 budgetSEYMOUR OXFORD FOOD BANK INC: $14,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSt Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc: $14,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.8% 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 budgetNew Horizons Living Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT PARTNERSHIP FOR CHILDREN INC: $9,100 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCAPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $9,100 over 1y, 2.2% 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 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.

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

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 Connecticut Foodshare Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Connecticut Foodshare Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 230%3%10%23%40%funder's 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
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.

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

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