· Private foundation
Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF WATERBURY | $15,000 |
| HOPEVILLE CHURCH | $15,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $15,000 |
| MATTATUCK MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| ASAP | $10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $10,000 |
| PALACE THEATRE | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CT | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBRASS CITY CHARTER SCHOOL6× · 2017–2024 · $148k · revenue +106%
- CCCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC7× · 2017–2024 · $133k · revenue +2%
- 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
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.
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.
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How this is measured
21 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. 21 of the 70 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- 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 ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Elisha Leavenworth Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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