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Ingenuityne Inc
Ingenuityne, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2021–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 43 grants below total $409,690 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $471,753 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $62,063 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k33 grants · $217k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $139k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CONNECTICUT 4-H FOUNDATION INC | $53,606 |
| FIRST IN VERMONT INC | $30,000 |
| CITY OF WATERBURY | $18,792 |
| SOUTH WINDSOR BOARD OF EDUCATION | $15,871 |
| ACCESS Educational Services Inc | $13,144 |
| ROBODOMINATORS FIRST ROBOTICS TEAM 5142 INC | $13,144 |
| TEAM PARAGON ROBOTICS INC | $13,142 |
| SHELTON HIGH SCHOOL ROBOTICS TEAM | $13,142 |
| REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT 15 | $12,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE | $10,000 |
| MERCY HIGH SCHOOL CORPORATION | $9,572 |
| REGIONAL SCHOOL DISTRICT NO 18 | $9,572 |
| GRANBY PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $9,571 |
| CYBERNIGHTS ROBOTICS INC | $9,571 |
| TOWN OF WEYMOUTH | $9,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 22% 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.
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 +97% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 40 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $326k 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
- FIFIRST IN VERMONT2× · 2024–2025 · $76k
- C4Connecticut 4-H Foundation Inc2× · 2023–2025 · $66k · revenue +30%
- THTHE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB2× · 2023–2024 · $19k · revenue +97%
Funded once
- FNFIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE ROBOTICSone grant, 2021 · $86k · revenue +14% · 25% of their budget
- SOSTATE OF CONNECTICUTone grant, 2022 · $13k
- FOFRIENDS OF THE MENDELL NON PROFIT CORPORATIONone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +15%
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.
Supporting robotic contests in schools
High school students learning to make robots
Southeastern ct robotics, inc is organized exclusively for charitable and educational purposes to provide accessible, hands-on stem education programs for students in southeastern connecticut from ates 6-17. the organization delivers…
To provide a means of funding and financial support to the Reading Robockets (Team 4761), a FIRST Robotics Competition Team at Reading Memorial High School.
The support of a local FIRST robotics team for the town of Scituate. Helping to fund raise so that the team can compete in the national FIRST competition every year. Helping to identify and supply technical mentors for the team each year.…
Middlesex County Robotics Club, Inc's mission is to inspire young people to become the next generation of leaders in science and technology by engaging them in challenging programs that build science, technology, engineering, art and math…
We mentor young people (Grades K through 12) as they learn to design, build and program robots, which are then taken to regional and national competitions. This practical, collaborative, hands-on experience in science and technology has…
Promoting students' interest in technical and STEM careers through designing and building robots, creating computer software for data collection, analysis, and reporting to enhance robot use during competition matches, and involving…
STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) education through competitive youth robotics.
STEM enrichment for grade 7-12 students through participation in First Robotics programs.
This foundation educates and informs community teens in robotics, engineering, coding, and participating in robotics competitions. We provide the opportunity to develop critical skills in STEM while fostering teamwork.
Educational Enrichment for students in science / technology.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is First New Hampshire Robotics and the most unlike its peers is Norwalk High School Parents Club. 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 12 years old; the field is 20. You back the younger end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 12% of your grantees by number, and just 10% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 18 of the 48 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 FIRST NEW HAMPSHIRE ROBOTICS ↗
- Who funds Connecticut 4-H Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE HACK FOUNDATION D/B/A HACK CLUB ↗
- Who funds ACCESS EDUCATIONAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Shelton Robotics Inc Richard Vogl ↗
- Who funds RHODE ISLAND SCHOOL OF THE FUTURE ↗
- Who funds CYBERKNIGHTS ROBOTICS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MENDELL NON PROFIT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Aluminum Falcon Robotics Inc co Robert E Fitch High School ↗
- Who funds BUZZ ROBOTICS ↗
- Who funds POMFRET SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds RAGE ROBOTICS INC ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds AMISTAD ACADEMY 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.
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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 Ingenuityne 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.
- Readyct Inc — 23% of income from government
- Aluminum Falcon Robotics Inc co Robert E Fitch High School — 11% 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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