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Ct Charitable Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k3 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $364k
- $50k–250k13 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUST THE PILL | $125,000 |
| ALI FORNEY CENTER | $125,000 |
| SPECIAL NEEDS ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB (SNARR NE) | $125,000 |
| LGBT CENTER | $100,000 |
| CALLEN-LORDE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER | $100,000 |
| HOPEWELL FUND FBO PROJECT INTERRUPT | $100,000 |
| MAYDAY MEDICINES INC | $75,000 |
| COMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTHCARE EDUCATION FUND | $62,500 |
| LOWER EAST SIDE ECOLOGY CENTER | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $50,000 |
| NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT | $49,250 |
| FARM SANCTUARY | $30,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY21–24, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of Ct Charitable Foundation’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.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 16 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $605k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- AFALI FORNEY CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $210k · revenue +49%
- MMMAYDAY MEDICINES INC2× · 2023–2024 · $150k · revenue +72%
- PRPUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT2× · 2023–2024 · $149k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- CCCT CHARITABLE GIFT FUNDone grant, 2021 · $25k
- MTMINDUP - THE GOLDIE HAWN FOUNADTIONone grant, 2021 · $25k
- HOHEART OF DINNER INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $25k · revenue +891% · 31% of their budget
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.
Animal outlook is a national animal protection organization working to end the abuse of farmed animals using a variety of strategies, including investigations, legal advocacy, corporate and food system reform, and vegan outreach.
We exist to end the abuse of animals raised for food. this mission is executed by persuading companies and institutions to adopt animal welfare policies through negotiation and pressure campaigns, and then holding them accountable to their…
Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.
The washington humane society protects animals, supports families, and advocates for positive change to create a world where all animals can thrive. we enrich the humanity of our communities by promoting compassion and encouraging people…
Animal care sanctuary's lifesaving mission as a no kill organization envisions a community that promotes turning compassion into action for companion animals by: 1.) adopting healthy pet companions into loving homes. 2.) promoting the…
The aspca's mission, as stated by founder henry bergh in 1866, is "to provide effective means for the prevention of cruelty to animals throughout the united states." the aspca was founded on the belief that animals are entitled to kind and…
The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.
The animal agriculture alliance is a nonprofit organization that helps bridge the communication gap between farm and fork. we connect food industry stakeholders, engage food chain influencers and promote consumer choice by helping key…
To improve and save lives through compassionate care, community engagement and advocacy for animals.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Founded in 1877, american humane association, dba american humane society (american humane) is committed to ensuring the safety, welfare and well-being of animals. our leadership programs are first to serve in promoting and nurturing the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Farm Sanctuary Inc and the most unlike its peers is Bissell Pet 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.
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 27 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 14% of your grantees by number, and just 17% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
27 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. 27 of the 40 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 JTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ALI FORNEY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MAYDAY MEDICINES INC ↗
- Who funds PUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds SERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTH CARE EDUCATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds FARM SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH FUND ↗
- Who funds COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC ↗
- Who funds HARLEM GROWN INC ↗
- Who funds The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations ↗
- Who funds MOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HORIZON INC ↗
- Who funds HEART OF DINNER INC ↗
- Who funds OUTDOOR AFRO ↗
- Who funds Brother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds SARGES ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds BISSELL Pet Foundation ↗
- Who funds Animal Haven of Asheville ↗
- Who funds BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rt Charitable Foundation · Hopewell Fund · Global Impact · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Verizon Foundation · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
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 Ct Charitable Foundation 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 or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
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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