· Private foundation
Elizabeth Carse Foundation
Its FY2025 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 FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 20 grants below total $105,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $120,000 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $15,000 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.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k19 grants · $95k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ARTS FOR LEARNING CT | $10,000 |
| LITTLE KIDS ROCK INC | $5,000 |
| LFCA | $5,000 |
| MERCY LEARNING CENTER BRIDGEPORT | $5,000 |
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| HORIZONS INC | $5,000 |
| BUSHNELL CENTER PERFORMING ARTS | $5,000 |
| S.T.E.P.S, INC | $5,000 |
| HARRIET BEECHER STOWE CENTER | $5,000 |
| WAKEMAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| CT VIRTUOSI CHAMBER ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| CT AERONAUTICAL HISTORICAL ASSOC | $5,000 |
| JR ACHIEVEMENT OF SW NEW ENGLAND | $5,000 |
| HARTFORD PERFORMS INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–21, $20k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 15%. 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.
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 +116% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 15 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $80k 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
- BOBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +96%
- SMST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +153%
- GOGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC2× · 2020–2021 · $10k · revenue +146%
Funded once
- YFYELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +62%
- MWMUSIC WILL INCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue +21%
- CZCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINCone grant, 2021 · $5k · revenue -29%
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.
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…
An independent, nonprofit school serving the lower fairfield county area of connecticut for children ages three to eight, and providing an environment that fosters in children the joy of learning through the use of innovative materials and…
Provide a sure foundation for young girls growing up in our society and to help girls grow and develop as individuals with confidence in themselves and their future.
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Working in close partnership with new haven public schools, elm city montessori school (ecms) will offer new haven families a high-quality, public montessori school program. elm city montessori school is a racially and economically diverse…
To empower women and girls and promote inclusion and dignity for all in our community. through leadership, innovative programs, services and educational opportunities, ywca greenwich is a driving force for a healthier, safer and more…
Child day care. the organization provides childcare services for children ages 3-12 years. each program complies with the state of connecticut licensing requirements which requires that each program be staffed by qualified teachers and…
The childrens museum groups mission is to inspire lifelong learning among children and their caregivers by providing experiential learning opportunities covering steam, health nature and the environment. with a focus on at need communities…
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
Greenwich academy is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls and young women that seeks to foster excellence. for more information see schedule o.its mission is to provide a challenging, comprehensive educational experience…
United way of greater new haven brings people and organizations together to create solutions to our region's most pressing challenges in the areas of education, health, and financial stability, grounded in racial and social justice. we…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is My Sisters' Place 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 47 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% 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.
30 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. 30 of the 69 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 YWCA HARTFORD REGION INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BARTLETT ARBORETUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOW FARMHOUSE EDUCATION CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC WILL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds EMPOWER HER NETWORK INC DBA EMPOWERED NETWORK ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds ALWAYS HOME INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERBURY YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY ACADEMY HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds MY SISTERS' PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut 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: Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · American Savings 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 Elizabeth Carse Foundation 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.
- The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
- Empower Her Network Inc Dba Empowered Network — 47% of income from government
- My Sisters' Place Inc — 26% of income from government
- 4-H Education Center at Auerfarm Inc — 25% of income from government
- The Discovery Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc — 10% of income from government
- Ywca Hartford Region Inc — 7% of income from government
- Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Shakesperience Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra 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.