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Connecticut Trust for Historic Preservation Inc

Interacts with other groups, individuals and organizations to encourage, advocate and facilitate historical preservation throughout connecticut.

$302k
Granted FY2025still arriving
10
Grants FY2025still arriving
2
States reached
$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 62% of CONNECTICUT TRUST FOR HISTORIC PRESERVATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2025 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 10 grants below total $95,630 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $302,426 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $206,796 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 $10k4 grants · $31k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $65k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALVARY TEMPLE CHRISTIAN CENTER IN$15,000
YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER$10,000
CONNECTICUT DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERIC$10,000
SIMSBURY HISTORICAL SOCIETY$10,000
HILL STEAD MUSEUM$10,000
MERWINSVILLE HOTEL RESTORATION INC$10,000
MANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY$8,890
NORTH STONINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY$8,500
FIRST ECCLESIASTICAL SOCIETY EAST H$7,500
Individual grant recipient$5,740
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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–22, $21k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%THE DUDLEY FOUNDATION: $12k → 12%THE SOUTHINGTON-CHESHIRE COMMUNITY: $9k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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.

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.

30%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$455k · 22 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
96

Total granted

$455k
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+15%

Still filing today

73%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 15% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationHealthHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • NH
    NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
    4× · 2017–2021 · $44k · revenue +54%
  • TR
    THE ROCKFALL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2024 · $33k · revenue +128%
  • MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC
    2× · 2018–2023 · $22k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CC
    CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $33k · revenue +30%
  • NL
    NEW LONDON MARITIME SOCIETY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $19k · revenue -23%
  • HS
    HARTFORD SPANISH SEVENTH-DAY ADVENT
    one grant, 2024 · $15k

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
Sandwich Historical Society
Arts & Culture
2
The Milford Historical Society Incorporated

To collect and preserve Miford, Connecticut antiquities and to encourage historical investigation.

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3
Cuttyhunk Historical Society Inc
Arts & Culture
4
New Hartford Historical Society Inc

To exhibit and preserve materials related to the history of new hartford, ct.

Arts & Culture
5
Hadley Historical Society Inc

Preservation of historical memorabilia - town of Hadley MA

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6
Milford Historical Society
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7
New Bedford Preservation Society Inc

Historic preservation

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8
Historical Society of Middletown & Wallkill
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9
Salem Historical Society
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10
Litchfield Historical Society

Museum

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11
Dorset Historical Society

The mission is to develop and preserve the history of dorset, its evirons and its people

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12
Stratford Historical Society

Historic preservation for the town of stratford

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Colony Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is The Rockfall Foundation. 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 backsteadyElementary and Early Childh…Senior Affordable HousingLand Conservation & Histori…Professional Industry Assoc…Performing Arts EducationSenior Care FacilitiesFood Assistance & Basic Nee…Public Library SystemsCemetery Operations
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 55 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%3%<5yr12%7%5–10yr18%7%10–20yr18%11%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr19%50%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%3%<5yr12%7%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr18%10%20–35yr13%21%35–55yr19%53%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 3% 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%0/112
the rest of the field
10%
2,003/20,421

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.

04the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 128 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/84
Grantees still filing
51/84
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $43,500 · Other+83 more — $949,574 · Other+83 moreKEELER TAVERN — $23,000 · Arts & CultureKEELER TAVERNMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $22,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INCTORRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $22,000 · Arts & CultureTORRINGTON HISTORICAL SOC…ADAM STANTON HOUSE INCORPORATED — $20,000 · Arts & CultureADAM STANTON HOUSE INCORP…WINDHAM PRESERVATION INC — $20,000 · Arts & CultureWINDHAM PRESERVATION INCTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL — $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIALMANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $14,890 · Arts & CultureTHE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC — $14,583 · Arts & CultureEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC — $14,000 · Arts & Culture+20 more — $182,650 · Arts & Culture+20 moreFlanders Nature Center & Land Trust Inc — $21,665 · EnvironmentNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $18,000 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $15,000 · EnvironmentJoshua's Tract Conservation and Historic Trust Inc — $15,000 · EnvironmentBRANFORD LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentKENT LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 · EnvironmentFarmington Land Trust — $10,000 · EnvironmentTHE ROCKFALL FOUNDATION — $32,700 · EducationHOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC — $10,000 · EducationStrong Family Farm Inc — $9,000 · EducationGaylord Hospital INC — $15,000 · HealthALLIANCE FOR LIVING INC — $14,225 · HealthDUDLEY FOUNDATION INC — $12,000 · Human ServicesSOUTHINGTON-CHESHIRE COMMUNITY YMCA — $9,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC — $14,000 · Philanthropy
Other$993,074Arts & Culture$353,123Environment$99,665Education$51,700Health$29,225Human Services$21,000Philanthropy$14,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $43,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE ROCKFALL FOUNDATION — $32,700 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetKEELER TAVERN — $23,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTORRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $22,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetOLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $22,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetFlanders Nature Center & Land Trust Inc — $21,665 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetADAM STANTON HOUSE INCORPORATED — $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetWINDHAM PRESERVATION INC — $20,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetTHE MARK TWAIN MEMORIAL — $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER INC — $19,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNEW LONDON MARITIME SOCIETY INC — $19,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC — $18,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetNEW MILFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $16,200 over 2y, 15% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetGaylord Hospital INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $14,890 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWHITNEYVILLE CULTURAL COMMONS INC — $14,726 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetTHE ANTIQUARIAN & LANDMARKS SOCIETY INC — $14,583 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetRIVERSIDE CEMETERY ASSOCIATION — $14,250 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetALLIANCE FOR LIVING INC — $14,225 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEUGENE O'NEILL MEMORIAL THEATER CENTER INC — $14,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DENISON SOCIETY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetTHE ENFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $12,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetBRANFORD LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMusic Mountain Incorporated — $10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSEABURY SOCIETY FOR THE GLEBE HOUSE INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT ANTIQUE MACHINERY ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetStonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetHOTCHKISS LIBRARY OF SHARON INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMADISON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetWINCHESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetWESTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEWTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetMATHER HOMESTEAD FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetBALL & SOCKET ARTS INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNORWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetWILTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC — $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetKENT LAND TRUST INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDARIEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetFarmington Land Trust — $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetWINDHAM FREE LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetGREATER BRISTOL HISTORICAL SOCIETY — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetSimsbury Historical Society Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCALKINS FAMILY ASSOCIATION — $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW HAVEN INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Connecticut Humanitie…Chelsea Groton Founda…Hartford Foundation f…The Connecticut Commu…The Edward and Mary L…The Maximilian E and …Farmington Bank Commu…Ion Bank Foundation I…The Community Foundat…The William and Alice…Ibm International Fou…The Community Foundat…
Connecticut Humanities Council IncCT113.9× affinity61 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut 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 Trust for Historic Preservation 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 · 360%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Norwich Arts Center Inc — 86% of income from government
  • Alliance for Living Inc — 72% of income from government
  • Governor Samuel Huntington Trust Inc — 72% of income from government
  • Noah Webster House Inc — 46% of income from government
  • United Community and Family Servicesinc — 29% of income from government
  • Ball & Socket Arts Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Calkins Family Association — 23% of income from government
  • Southington-Cheshire Community Ymca — 23% of income from government
  • The Mark Twain Memorial — 22% of income from government
  • Young Men's Institute Library — 21% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
  • The Denison Society Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mather Homestead Foundation — 4% of income from government
  • Harriet Beecher Stowe Center Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Stonington Village Improvement Assoc Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Wilton Historical Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Woodbury Cemetery Association — 0% of income from government
  • Music Mountain Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • Windham Free Library Association — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
36get no government money at all
16report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely 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 128 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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