· Private foundation
E Clayton and Edith P Gengras Jr Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2019–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $32k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH | $120,000 |
| POMFRET SCHOOL | $63,000 |
| RENBROOK SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $35,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD | $10,000 |
| LEHIGH UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD | $5,000 |
| BERKSHIRE SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| FENWICK IMPROVEMENT FUND INC | $2,500 |
| KATHERINE HEPBURN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER | $2,500 |
| ITHACA COLLEGE ATHLETICS ANNUAL FUND | $2,500 |
| PROVIDENCE COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| BABSON COLLEGE | $2,000 |
| MIDDLESEX SCHOOL | $1,000 |
| HEATHCOTE BOTANICAL GARDENS | $1,000 |
| THE LOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $600 |
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 (FY19–25, $6k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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 14% of E Clayton and Edith P Gengras Jr Foundation 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, 97% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 83% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
33 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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
- PSPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED7× · 2019–2025 · $321k · revenue +16%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH5× · 2019–2025 · $295k · revenue +20%
- TBTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD7× · 2019–2025 · $145k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- HHHARTFORD HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE OF LIVINGone grant, 2024 · $25k
- CCCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +62%
- GHGaylord Hospital INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +14%
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.
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Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
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A preschool through 12th grade, private, college preparatory school. the school's mission statement is "together, cultivating the best in each for the benefit of all."
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South kent school is an independent, college-preparatory school for boys. since its founding, south kent has maintained ties with the episcopal church. three principles define the school: simplicity of life, self-reliance, and directness…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford and the most unlike its peers is The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center 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.
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 62 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
46 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. 46 of the 54 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 RENBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds HEATHCOTE BOTANICAL GARDENS INC ↗
- Who funds FENWICK IMPROVEMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds Gaylord Hospital INC ↗
- Who funds HOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC ↗
- Who funds LYNDE POINT LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds LOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds Library Foundation of Martin County ↗
- Who funds LEHIGH UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Puerto Rico Lacrosse Inc ↗
- Who funds HIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GRACE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY ↗
- Who funds MISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR COMMUNITY & JUSTICE OF CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds HOUSE OF BREAD INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ↗
- Who funds MOORELAND HILL SCHOOL INC ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Aetna Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Cheryl Chase & Stuart Bear Family Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Kitchings Family Foundation · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · William Caspar Graustein Memorial 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 E Clayton and Edith P Gengras Jr Foundation 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.
- United Way of Connecticut Inc — 100% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford — 39% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Babson College — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Jesus House of Hope Inc — 3% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- University of Saint Joseph — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College — 1% of income from government
- The Banner Lake Club Inc — 1% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- High Watch Recovery Center Inc — 0% of income from government
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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