· Public charity
Economic Development Corporation of New Haven
The Organization's mission is to create a vibrant business environment in New Haven, Connecticut and to serve as a catalyst for attracting human and capital investment to the city and its neighborhoods by retaining and attracting businesses and fostering a positive economic climate.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1 grants below total $50,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $64,050 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $14,050 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| District Arts and Education Inc | $50,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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.
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 +137% since the first grant, against +86% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- DIDAE INC6× · 2018–2023 · $960k · revenue +137% · 27% of their budget
- SCSOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2022 · $934k · revenue +26%
- MIMAKEHAVEN INC6× · 2017–2022 · $715k · revenue +263% · 70% of their budget
Funded once
- NINXTHVN INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $1.1M · revenue +650%
- SPSCIENCE PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · $485k · revenue +86%
- CSCITY SEED INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $108k · revenue +119%
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.
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…
Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
Receive and administer gifts, grants and contributions. assist local & state government leaders in community development programs.
To grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.
To help connecticut manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques to become more competitive, supporting the growth of connecticut economy.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
Scholarships for city school graduates
To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.
The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the most unlike its peers is Nxthvn Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 NXTHVN INC ↗
- Who funds DAE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAKEHAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN B PIERCE LABORATORY INC ↗
- Who funds New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated ↗
- Who funds SCIENCE PARK DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONCEPTS FOR ADAPTIVE LEARNING ↗
- Who funds CONNCORP LLC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds CITY SEED INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTH CENTRAL CHIEFS OF POLICE ASSO ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN PROMISE 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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Yale University · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Amour Propre Fund Inc · Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
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 Economic Development Corporation of New Haven 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.
- City Seed Inc — 87% of income from government
- Conncorp Llc — 69% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Inc — 9% of income from government
- New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated — 4% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Makehaven Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nxthvn Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Haven Promise 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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