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Ct Charitable Foundation

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
35
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$503k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0190% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Health$813kEnvironment$663kAnimals$394kHuman Services$290kEducation$214kHousing & Shelter$210kCivil Rights$149kYouth Development$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 35 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k23 grants · $595k
  • $50k–250k10 grants · $825k
  • $250k+1 grant · $503k
$25,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD$503,159
HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC$150,000
ALI FORNEY CENTER INC$125,000
CALLEN-LORDE COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC$100,000
THE LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER$100,000
SERVICES & ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC$75,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC$75,000
THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY ASTOR LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS$50,000
URBAN JUSTICE CENTER - MENTAL HEALTH PROJECT$50,000
URBAN JUSTICE CENTER - STREET VENDORS PROJECT$50,000
SAFE HORIZON INC$50,000
GODS LOVE WE DELIVER INC$40,000
SNARR ANIMAL RESCUE NORTHEAST INC$35,000
HARLEM GROWN INC$35,000
FARM SANCTUARY INC$30,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $395k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%HOUR CHILDREN INC: $25k → 13%SAFE HORIZON INC: $50k → 17%SAFE HORIZON: $25k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $150k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $30k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $30k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $30k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE: $25k → 17%HENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25k → 17%UNITED JEWISH COUNCIL OF THE EAST SIDE INC: $5k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
NJ
CA
NC
DC
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 6% of Ct Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

Ct Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$3.7M · 24 repeat orgs$1.1M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +7% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

24 repeat relationships: 14 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

24
14

Total granted

$3.7M
$470k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
0%

Still filing today

83%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $635k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23’24’25
AnimalsEnvironmentHuman ServicesHealthEducationFood & NutritionOther
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

  • AF
    ALI FORNEY CENTER INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $335k · revenue +49%
  • TH
    THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $265k · revenue +12%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $200k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • SN
    SPECIAL NEEDS ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB (SNARR NE)
    one grant, 2024 · $125k
  • HF
    HOPEWELL FUND FBO PROJECT INTERRUPT
    one grant, 2024 · $100k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $50k
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
Animal Outlook Inc

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.

Animals
2
Animal Care and Control of New York City Inc

Animal care centers of nyc's (acc) mission is to end animal homelessness in nyc.

Animals
3
Washington Humane Society

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…

Animals
4
Animal Care Sanctuary

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…

Animals
5
Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals
6
The Humane League

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…

Animals
7
Animal Haven Inc

Animal haven is a nonprofit organization that finds homes for dogs and cats throughout the tristate area. it operates out of its adoption center in lower manhattan which has facilities for dog training and grooming as part of the adoption…

Animals
8
Animal Equality

Animal equality is an international organization working with society, governments, and companies to end cruelty to farmed animals.

Animals
9
Marin Humane Society

Marin humane transforms lives through exceptional animal care, humane education, and advocacy. every day, marin humane inspires compassion and positive relationships between people and animals.

Animals
10
Humane Animal Partners

Founded in 2023, humane animal partners is a nonprofit no-kill animal care and adoption center. we are committed to providing for the needs of homeless and owned dogs and cats in our community. we make "friends for life" by connecting…

Animals
11
The Humane Society for Seattleking County

Seattle humane promotes the human-animal bond by saving and serving pets in need, regardless of age, ability, circumstance or geography.

Animals
12
Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The primary mission of the humane society is to end animal cruelty, neglect and overpopulation in south carolina.

Animals
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is West Side Center for Community Life; 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.
05the grantee network

41 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. 41 of the 59 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
20/41
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $200,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientLOWER EAST SIDE ECOLOGY CENTER: $198,000 · OtherLOWER EAST SIDE ECOLOGY CENTERSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $190,000 · OtherSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUA…LGBT CENTER: $175,000 · OtherLGBT CENTERSPECIAL NEEDS ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB (SNARR NE): $125,000 · OtherSPECIAL NEEDS ANIMAL RESCUE AND REHAB (SNARR …THE LESBIAN GAY BISEXUAL & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTER: $100,000 · OtherHOPEWELL FUND FBO PROJECT INTERRUPT: $100,000 · OtherSNARR: $85,000 · OtherTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $138,832 · OtherTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITYThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $100,000 · OtherPUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT: $149,250 · OtherPUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECTNORTH FUND: $100,000 · Other+17 more: $525,280 · Other+17 moreJTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION: $375,000 · HealthJTP PROFESSIONAL …COMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $200,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH …MAYDAY MEDICINES INC: $150,000 · HealthMAYDAY MEDICINES …COMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTH CARE EDUCATION FUND: $112,500 · HealthCOMMITTEE TO PROT…WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $275,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLIF…NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $125,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL RESOU…COUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentCOUNCIL ON TH…HARLEM GROWN INC: $90,000 · EnvironmentHARLEM GROWN …EARTH MATTER NY INC: $25,000 · Environment+1 more: $10,000 · EnvironmentBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $508,159 · PhilanthropyBANK OF AME…THE FRIENDS OF THE CORNELL LAB OF ORNITHOLOGY INC: $25,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $139,000 · AnimalsCATSKILL …FARM SANCTUARY INC: $135,000 · AnimalsFARM SANC…BEST FRIENDS ANIMAL SOCIETY: $55,000 · AnimalsBEST FRIE…SNARR ANIMAL RESCUE NORTHEAST INC: $35,000 · AnimalsSNARR ANI…Pets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS: $25,000 · AnimalsPASADENA HUMANE: $25,000 · AnimalsBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $20,000 · AnimalsASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 · Animals+2 more: $15,000 · AnimalsTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $265,000 · Human ServicesSAFE HORIZON INC: $75,000 · Human ServicesHOUR CHILDREN INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $335,000 · Housing & ShelterSOUTHSIDE UNITED HOUSING DEVELOPMENT FUND CORPORATION: $25,000 · Housing & Shelter
Other$2,186,362Health$837,500Environment$625,000Philanthropy$543,159Animals$469,000Human Services$395,000Housing & Shelter$360,000

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 budgetBANK OF AMERICA CHARITABLE GIFT FD: $508,159 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJTP PROFESSIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION: $375,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetALI FORNEY CENTER INC: $335,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $275,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $265,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH PROJECT INC: $200,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSERVICES AND ADVOCACY FOR GAY LESBIAN BISEXUAL AND TRANSGENDER ELDERS INC: $190,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMAYDAY MEDICINES INC: $150,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetPUBLIC RIGHTS PROJECT: $149,250 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetCATSKILL ANIMAL SANCTUARY INC: $139,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $138,832 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFARM SANCTUARY INC: $135,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC: $125,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT HEALTH CARE EDUCATION FUND: $112,500 over 2y, 10.0% of budgetCOUNCIL ON THE ENVIRONMENT INC: $100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNORTH FUND: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations: $100,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHARLEM GROWN INC: $90,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAFE HORIZON INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUSE INC: $50,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWEST SIDE CENTER FOR COMMUNITY LIFE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEART OF DINNER INC: $25,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetOUTSTANDING RENEWAL ENTERPRISES INC dba LOWER EAST SIDE ECOLOGY CENTER: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetPets are Wonderful Support Inc dba PAWS: $25,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetHENRY STREET SETTLEMENT: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEARTH MATTER NY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBrother Wolf Animal Rescue Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetASHEVILLE HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOUTDOOR AFRO: $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBISSELL Pet Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSARGES ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNITED JEWISH COUNCIL OF THE EAST SIDE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Haven of Asheville: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% 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.

Rt Charitable Foundat…Hopewell FundGlobal ImpactVanguard Charitable E…Verizon FoundationPaypal Charitable Giv…Morgan Stanley Global…American Online Givin…National Philanthropi…Donor Advised Charita…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …
Rt Charitable FoundationNJ15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Ct Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ct Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%5%10%15%20%share of the org’s income from government →
    no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
    1get no government money at all
    4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
    0rely on government for over half their income
    ⤢ axis zoomed · 0–20%
    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.
    05Through Plinth

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    How do I get to Ct Charitable Foundation?

    Find your warmest path to Ct Charitable Foundation 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 59 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-PF 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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