· Private foundation
Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k15 grants · $243k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CT WATERBURY | $30,259 |
| FLANDERS NATURE CENTER | $21,026 |
| BRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL | $20,000 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL | $20,000 |
| CHILDRENS COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $18,900 |
| CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF WATERBURY | $17,500 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WATERBURY | $15,000 |
| HOPEVILLE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| MATTATUCK MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| ASAP | $10,000 |
| PALACE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CT | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
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 (FY21–21, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
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 +29% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 5 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $78k 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
- BCBRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +106%
- CCCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue +123%
- PAPOLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY3× · 2017–2019 · $100k · revenue +319%
Funded once
- SGSAVE GIRLS ON FYER INCone grant, 2021 · $45k · revenue -22%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $35k
- UWUNITED WAYone grant, 2020 · $25k
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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The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
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The mission of the Jamestown Area Family YMCA is "To put Christian principles into practice through programs that build strong kids, strong families, and strong communities by enriching the lives of all people in spirit, mind, and body."
Unite goodness and knowledge and inspire youth from every quarter to lead purposeful lives. [text in quotations is taken from the academy's deed of gift, drafted in 1781] knowledge and goodness "above all, it is expected that the attention…
The ymca of greater boston is dedicated to improving the health of mind, body, and spirit of individuals and families in our communities. we promote welcoming, belonging, and opportunity for all.
To offer accessible, high-quality performing arts education that sparks personal growth and builds inclusive communities. its vision is to transform performing arts education in an inclusive community accessible to all.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Porters House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% 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.
21 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. 21 of the 70 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 BRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WATERBURY YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds SAVE GIRLS ON FYER INC ↗
- Who funds Seven Angels Theatre Inc ↗
- Who funds Pastor & Standing Comm South Congregation Church ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF GREATER WTBY INC ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPERIENCE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds PORTERS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD CENTER FOR THE ARTS 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: The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · The Leever Foundation · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Tw Marian W Ottley-Watertown · The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Chase Collegiate School Foundation · Element Solutions Foundation Inc
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 Elisha Leavenworth 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.
- Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury — 53% of income from government
- Naugatuck Youth Services Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association — 21% of income from government
- Stamford Center for the Arts Inc — 18% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury — 18% of income from government
- Shakesperience Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
- Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
- Trinity College — 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.