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E Clayton and Edith P Gengras Jr Foundation Inc at a glance

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E Clayton and Edith P Gengras Jr Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$260k
Granted FY2025still arriving
27
Grants FY2025still arriving
7
States reached
$120k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.

Education$1.3MYouth Development$149kHealth$121kArts & Culture$43kEnvironment$22kHuman Services$17kPublic Benefit$16kCommunity Improvement$14kOther$0
02FY2025 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k23 grants · $32k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $183k
$1,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH$120,000
POMFRET SCHOOL$63,000
RENBROOK SCHOOL INCORPORATED$35,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD$10,000
BERKSHIRE SCHOOL$5,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD$5,000
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY$5,000
KATHERINE HEPBURN CULTURAL ARTS CENTER$2,500
ITHACA COLLEGE ATHLETICS ANNUAL FUND$2,500
FENWICK IMPROVEMENT FUND INC$2,500
PROVIDENCE COLLEGE$2,000
BABSON COLLEGE$2,000
HEATHCOTE BOTANICAL GARDENS$1,000
MIDDLESEX SCHOOL$1,000
THE LOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$600
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 (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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%JESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC DBA HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $250 → 10%SAFE FUTURES: $100 → 9%HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $250 → 9%SAFE FUTURES: $100 → 9%CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $5k → 11%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

ME
VT
NY
MA
PA
CT
RI
TN
FL
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 E Clayton and Edith P Gengras Jr Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 83%.

E Clayton and Edith P Gengras Jr Foundation Inclessmore 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 33 repeat orgs$70k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +22% since the first grant, against +19% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
17

Total granted

$1.6M
$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+19%

Still filing today

91%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

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

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

’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • PS
    POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED
    7× · 2019–2025 · $321k · revenue +16%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH
    5× · 2019–2025 · $295k · revenue +20%
  • TB
    THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD
    7× · 2019–2025 · $145k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • HH
    HARTFORD HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE OF LIVING
    one grant, 2024 · $25k
  • GH
    Gaylord Hospital INC
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +17%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTERgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +62%
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
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
3
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
4
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
5
Pembroke Hill School

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."

Education
6
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

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7
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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8
President and Trustees of Bates College

Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…

Education
9
South Kent School Corporation

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…

Education
10
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
11
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
12
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford; 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.
05the grantee network

46 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. 46 of the 54 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/46
Grantees still filing
37/46
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

RENBROOK SCHOOL INC: $615,500 · EducationRENBROOK SCHOOL INCPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $321,388 · EducationPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATEDUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $295,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH+12 more: $71,100 · Education+12 moreTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $145,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BOYS …+2 more: $4,000 · Youth DevelopmentCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 · HealthHartford Hospital: $11,000 · HealthGaylord Hospital INC: $10,000 · HealthCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 · Health+1 more: $100 · HealthHARTFORD HEALTHCARE INSTITUTE OF LIVING: $25,000 · OtherITHACA COLLEGE ATHLETICS ANNUAL FUND: $7,500 · OtherHIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC: $5,000 · OtherCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $5,000 · OtherLYNDE POINT LAND TRUST INC: $5,600 · OtherPuerto Rico Lacrosse Inc: $5,000 · Other+15 more: $7,900 · OtherThe Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc: $40,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $800 · Arts & CultureFENWICK IMPROVEMENT FUND INC: $15,500 · PhilanthropyHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 · Philanthropy+1 more: $100 · PhilanthropyHEATHCOTE BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $16,000 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $750 · Environment
Education$1,302,988Youth Development$149,000Health$91,100Other$61,000Arts & Culture$40,800Philanthropy$30,600Environment$16,750

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRENBROOK SCHOOL INC: $615,500 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPOMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $321,388 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SAINT JOSEPH: $295,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $145,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc: $40,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetHEATHCOTE BOTANICAL GARDENS INC: $16,000 over 7y, 3.0% of budgetFENWICK IMPROVEMENT FUND INC: $15,500 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetMIDDLESEX SCHOOL: $14,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE COLLEGE: $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBABSON COLLEGE: $14,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BERKSHIRE SCHOOL INC: $11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Hospital: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOBE SOUND COMMUNITY CHEST INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGaylord Hospital INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLYNDE POINT LAND TRUST INC: $5,600 over 7y, 37% of budgetPuerto Rico Lacrosse Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 5.9% of budgetLEHIGH UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLOBLOLLY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetLibrary Foundation of Martin County: $5,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHIGH WATCH RECOVERY CENTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE ACADEMY: $3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BANNER LAKE CLUB INC: $2,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMISS PORTER'S SCHOOL INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR COMMUNITY & JUSTICE OF CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASS: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE: $1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF BREAD INC: $950 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC: $750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGH 5 ADVENTURE LEARNING CENTER INC: $700 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOLD SAYBROOK HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $700 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOORELAND HILL SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF HOPE: $250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJESUS HOUSE OF HOPE INC: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Futures Inc: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Hartford Foundation f…Aetna Foundation IncSandra & Arnold Chase…Liberty Bank Foundati…Cheryl Chase & Stuart…The Maximilian E and …Eversource Energy Fou…The Robert & Margaret…The William and Alice…Kitchings Family Foun…United Way Inc United…William Caspar Graust…
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT26.7× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 E Clayton and Edith P Gengras Jr Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from E Clayton and Edith P Gengras Jr Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 150%3%10%23%40%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 3%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to E Clayton and Edith P Gengras Jr Foundation Inc 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 54 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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