· Public charity
Environmental Professionals' Organization of Connecticut Inc
To promote scientific and educational growth in the field of environmental science
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2019.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 4 grants below total $10,749 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $19,249 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $8,500 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 |
|---|---|
| AUDUBON CONNECTICUT | $3,349 |
| LAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE | $3,000 |
| NORTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT | $3,000 |
| GREAT HOLLOW MANAGEMENT INC | $1,400 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–19) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 30% of your 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.
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.
To promote the sound use and management of natural resources. the district provides technical assistance and education in soil and water conservation and control.
To provide leadership and take initiatives for locally led conservation with the goal to protect soil, water and other natural resources of north central connecticut.
Connecticut Land Conservation Council, Inc.s mission is to elevate and strengthen land conservation in Connecticut.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
Kestrel land trust inc. conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts, while nurturing an enduring love of the land
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The royal river conservation trust (rrct) is a regional land trust working primarily in seven maine municipalities. the trust owns,cares for, and stewards land and conservation easements to protect land and water resources for the general…
Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land
Avalonia land conservancy, founded in 1968, is a land trust dedicated to conservation through the acquisition of open space. it is a non-profit, non-political, tax-exempt organization. we believe that the conservation of natural resources…
To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed
Founded in 1966, Aspetuck Land Trust is a non-profit membership ogranization whose mission is to protect land forever and connect people to the natural world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Great Hollow Management Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 13 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 SOLAR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE WARAMAUG TASK FORCE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds Northwest Conservation District Inc ↗
- Who funds THE CCSU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds EARTHPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds Holcomb Farm Inc ↗
- Who funds GREAT HOLLOW MANAGEMENT INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS 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 · Select Equity Group Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Environmental Professionals' Organization of Connecticut 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.
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Northwest Conservation District Inc — 30% of income from government
- Solar Youth Inc — 19% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
- Great Hollow Management Inc — 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc — 4% of income from government
- Holcomb Farm Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Ccsu Foundation 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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