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Garden Homes Fund

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$1.5M
Granted FY2025still arriving
115
Grants FY2025still arriving
15
States reached
$171k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0194% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Health$2.2MHousing & Shelter$1.7MEducation$1.5MArts & Culture$1.2MHuman Services$1.0MFood & Nutrition$800kCivil Rights$555kYouth Development$244kOther$0
02FY2025 · 115 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k68 grants · $156k
  • $10k–50k41 grants · $792k
  • $50k–250k6 grants · $526k
$5,000
Median grant
15
States reached
$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND$170,500
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION$100,000
OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE$100,000
FUTURE FIVE$55,000
SECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TENNESSEE$50,000
VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER CO SHADE TREE CLINIC$50,000
DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN$45,000
SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER$40,000
STAMFORD ALL SCHOOL MUSICAL$40,000
AMERICAN RED CROSS$40,000
COLUMBUS HOUSE$35,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
ROSIE'S PLACE - BOSTON$25,000
CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION$25,000
02The need
03

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.

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Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $595k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%CAPTAIN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES: $25k → 7%FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH & OCEAN COUNTIES: $10k → 6%FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH & OCEAN COUNTIES: $5k → 6%FULFILL: $5k → 6%CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES: $500 → 7%FULFILL: $5k → 6%CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES: $500 → 7%FULFILL: $5k → 6%CAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES: $500 → 7%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $25k → 12%SARATOGA COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $105k → 7%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $25k → 12%SARATOGA COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $15k → 7%SARATOGA COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $15k → 7%CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION: $25k → 12%SARATOGA COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 7%SARATOGA COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 7%NAUGATUCK YOUTH SERVICES: $500 → 12%SARATOGA COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 7%SARATOGA COUNTY ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY COUNCIL: $10k → 7%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $500 → 9%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $20k → 16%ST FRANCIS HOUSE: $5k → 16%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK-ATHELTICS & RECREATION: $500 → 9%CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTERS: $65k → 9%CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTERS: $15k → 9%CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTERS: $15k → 9%CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTERS: $15k → 9%CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTERS: $15k → 9%CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTERS: $15k → 9%CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTERS: $15k → 9%CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTERS: $15k → 9%CHILDCARE LEARNING CENTERS: $15k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $15k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $15k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $15k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $15k → 9%JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE: $15k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $500 → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $500 → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $500 → 9%CENTER OF HOPE HAITI INC: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

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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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$9.9M · 153 repeat orgs$658k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

153 repeat relationships — 89 still active in FY2025, 64 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

153
75

Total granted

$9.9M
$459k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+33%

Still filing today

65%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationFood & NutritionHousing & ShelterOther

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

  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +26%
  • II
    INSPIRICA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $821k · revenue +15%
  • OC
    OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $505k · revenue +419%

Funded once

  • UM
    UMASS MEDICAL SCHOOL
    one grant, 2018 · $100k
  • FF
    FUTURE FIVE INC
    one grant, 2023 · $55k
  • VU
    Vanderbilt University Medical Centergraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue +35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
3
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
4
Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc

Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…

Arts & Culture
5
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
7
Stony Brook Ophthalmology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
Stony Brook Orthopedic Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

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 Newark Valley Historical Society. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyPregnancy Support ServicesAffordable Housing Developm…Food Banks and PantriesCommunity FoundationsCommunity Arts CentersYouth Development CentersPublic Library OperationsSchool District FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Cancer Support ServicesChristian Missionary Organi…Independent K-12 SchoolsDomestic Violence ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterLocal History MuseumsEnvironmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Developmental Disabilities …Jewish Community Organizati…Dance Arts Organizations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%1%<5yr12%1%5–10yr18%13%10–20yr18%24%20–35yr14%31%35–55yr20%29%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr18%17%10–20yr18%9%20–35yr14%37%35–55yr20%37%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/161
the rest of the field
10%
2,154/22,284

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.

04the grantee network

146 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. 146 of the 256 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
29
Early backer (in before they grew)
144/146
Grantees still filing
111/146
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

INSPIRICA INC — $820,940 · OtherINSPIRICA INCSTAMFORD ALL SCHOOL MUSICAL — $260,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient — $225,000 · OtherJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $204,066 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY — $200,000 · OtherDOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC — $175,000 · Other+122 more — $3,132,252 · Other+122 morePLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC — $1,122,500 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD O…BREAKTHROUGH T1D — $310,000 · HealthBREAKTHROUGH T1DPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $300,000 · HealthPLANNED PARENTHOOD O…+17 more — $163,200 · Health+17 moreStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — $275,000 · Arts & CultureStamford Mu…CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC — $175,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT…SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $120,000 · Arts & CultureSCHOOL OF A…NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $115,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CI…CURTAIN CALL INC — $100,000 · Arts & CultureCURTAIN CAL…GLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC — $54,000 · Arts & CultureORCHESTRA LUMOS INC — $50,000 · Arts & Culture+15 more — $138,000 · Arts & Culture+15 moreOPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE INC — $504,720 · EducationNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC — $105,000 · EducationNew York University — $55,000 · EducationTHE FERGUSON LIBRARY — $28,500 · Education+7 more — $59,500 · EducationCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC — $455,000 · Housing & ShelterPACIFIC HOUSE INC — $70,000 · Housing & ShelterNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC — $55,000 · Housing & ShelterNEW REACH INC — $25,000 · Housing & Shelter+3 more — $40,000 · Housing & ShelterCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $185,000 · Human ServicesLIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $175,000 · Human ServicesCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE INC — $75,000 · Human ServicesTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL — $30,000 · Human ServicesCAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC — $26,500 · Human ServicesSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $25,000 · Human Services+2 more — $4,500 · Human ServicesFUTURE 5 INC — $407,760 · Youth DevelopmentTHREAD INC — $25,000 · Youth Development
Other$5,217,258Health$1,895,700Arts & Culture$1,027,000Education$752,720Housing & Shelter$645,000Human Services$596,000Youth Development$432,760

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC — $1,122,500 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetINSPIRICA INC — $820,940 over 9y, 3.6% of budgetOPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE INC — $504,720 over 9y, 9.5% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC — $455,000 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC — $407,760 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetBREAKTHROUGH T1D — $310,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC — $300,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — $275,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC — $204,066 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $185,000 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC — $175,000 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetDOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC — $175,000 over 9y, 2.5% of budgetLIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $175,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC — $171,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC — $137,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $135,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC — $120,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $115,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC — $115,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC — $105,000 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetCURTAIN CALL INC — $100,000 over 9y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC — $80,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetNEW NEIGHBORHOODS INC — $80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCommunity Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc — $75,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK — $75,000 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC — $75,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC — $70,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $65,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetSECOND HARVEST FOOD BANK OF MIDDLE TN INC — $60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNASHVILLE SAFE HAVEN FAMILY SHELTER INC — $55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNew York University — $55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLIMMERGLASS OPERA THEATRE INC — $54,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetORCHESTRA LUMOS INC — $50,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetVanderbilt University Medical Center — $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANK OF SOUTH JERSEY INC — $40,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD BANK OF NORTHEASTERN NEW YORK INC — $35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAppalachian Mountain Club — $35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOODBANK OF MONMOUTH AND OCEAN COUNTIES INC D/B/A FULFILL — $30,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FERGUSON LIBRARY — $28,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetCAPTAIN COMMUNITY HUMAN SERVICES INC — $26,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSAINT FRANCIS HOUSE INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHREAD INC — $25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC — $25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD GREATER MEMPHIS REGION INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW REACH INC — $25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMIAMI CITY BALLET INC — $23,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARY FUND INC — $21,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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 PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
  • Who funds OPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
  • Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTH FLORIDA AND THE TREASURE COAST INC ↗
  • Who funds Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds LIFEWORKS COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
  • Who funds SCHOOL OF AMERICAN BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
  • Who funds CURTAIN CALL INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE OF STAMFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW NEIGHBORHOODS INC ↗
  • Who funds Community Food Bank Of New Jersey Inc ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF CENTRAL NEW YORK ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds JEWISH FAMILY SERVICE 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.

Fairfield County's Co…William Caspar Graust…Stamford Rotary Trust…Peoples United Commun…New Canaan Community …The Near and Far Asso…The Community Foundat…Ge Aerospace Foundati…The Inner-City Founda…The Herbert & Nell Si…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Viking Global Foundat…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT58.5× affinity30 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Viking Global 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 Garden Homes Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 220%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Access Agency Inc — 79% of income from government
  • The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
  • Naugatuck Youth Services Inc — 40% of income from government
  • Open Communities Alliance Inc — 39% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
  • Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
  • Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Food Bank of South Jersey Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
  • Connecticut Bar Foundation — 25% of income from government
  • Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
  • Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Saint Francis House Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
  • New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Thread Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • American Whitewater — 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Artists for World Peace Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Service of Stamford Inc — 2% of income from government
  • The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
  • The Ballet School of Stamford — 2% of income from government
  • Jupiter Medical Center Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Appalachian Mountain Club — 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University — 1% of income from government
  • Orchestra Lumos Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Partnership for Strong Communities — 0% of income from government
  • Curtain Call Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Music Mountain Incorporated — 0% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • Wounded Warrior Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
22get no government money at all
30report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Garden Homes Fund?

Find your warmest path to Garden Homes Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 256 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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