· Private foundation
Ion Bank Foundation Inc
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k396 grants · $543k
- $10k–50k21 grants · $321k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $185k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF NAUGATUCK & BEACON FALLS | $105,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY | $80,000 |
| CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $49,209 |
| CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| GRIFFIN HOSPITAL | $25,000 |
| WATERBURY PROMISE INC | $25,000 |
| ACTS 4 MINISTRY | $15,000 |
| FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY | $15,000 |
| MONTVILLE TOWNSHIP FIRST AID SQUAD INC | $13,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT | $13,000 |
| NAUGATUCK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP | $11,000 |
| HT CT INC | $10,000 |
| ELIM PARK BAPTIST HOME INC | $10,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC | $10,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $409k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 98% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +25% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
377 repeat relationships — 264 still active in FY2025, 113 since wound down; 77 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $157k 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
THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC6× · 2020–2025 · $735k · revenue +13%- UWUNITED WAY OF NAUGATUCK AND BEACON FALLS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $677k · revenue +69% · 32% of their budget
- GHGRIFFIN HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FUND INC6× · 2020–2025 · $112k · revenue +64%
Funded once
- CCCCS CHILDRENS COMMUNITY SCHOOLone grant, 2020 · $15k
- CMCOMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES INCone grant, 2022 · $15k · revenue -4%
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL AND NORTHEASTERN Cone grant, 2023 · $13k
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.
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
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.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
To grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.
Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is Foster and Forever Pet Rescue 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.5% 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.
325 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. 325 of the 634 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
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
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 THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NAUGATUCK AND BEACON FALLS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GRIFFIN HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NAUGATUCK INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds WATERBURY PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL MISSION OF WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds THE PALACE THEATER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds NAUGATUCK ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds ECUMENICAL FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds NAUGATUCK AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds Farmington Land Trust ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds ELIM PARK BAPTIST HOME INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds ABILITIES WITHOUT BOUNDARIES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER WATERBURY CAMPERSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC ↗
- Who funds GRIFFIN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds POLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE OF PARSIPPANY-TROY HILLS ↗
- Who funds WELLMORE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds MADRE LATINA ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds POLICE ACTIVITY LEAGUE OF WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds KELLY'S KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds JANE DOE NO MORE INCORPORATED ↗
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 · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc · Webster Bank Charitable 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 Ion Bank Foundation 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.
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Housing Collective Inc — 100% of income from government
- G I L Foundation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Naugatuck Economic Development Corporation — 100% of income from government
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Community Mental Health Affiliates Inc — 96% of income from government
- Midstate Arc Inc — 94% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Kuhn Employment Opportunities Inc — 91% of income from government
- Waterbury Arc Inc — 88% of income from government
- Sun Scholars Inc — 87% of income from government
- Friendship Service Center Inc — 85% of income from government
- Team Inc — 84% of income from government
- Community Renewal Team Inc — 77% of income from government
- The Legacy Foundation of Hartford — 77% of income from government
- New Opportunities Inc — 70% of income from government
- Wellmore Inc — 65% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Boys' & Girls' Club of New Britain Inc — 58% of income from government
- Community Solutions Inc — 55% of income from government
- Agency On Aging of South Central Connecticut — 55% of income from government
- Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury — 53% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- St Vincent Depaul Mission of Waterbury — 49% of income from government
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc — 47% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Tricircle Corporation — 43% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Jersey Battered Women's Service Inc — 40% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Horizons Inc — 39% of income from government
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% of income from government
- Covenant to Care for Children Inc — 35% of income from government
- Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Nourishnj Inc — 27% of income from government
- Ball & Socket Arts Inc — 26% of income from government
- Beat the Street Community Center Inc — 24% of income from government
- Latinas & Power Corp — 24% of income from government
- Southington-Cheshire Community Ymca — 23% of income from government
- The Children's Center of Hamden Inc — 20% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Capital for Change Inc — 19% of income from government
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc — 18% of income from government
- Women and Families Center — 18% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury — 18% of income from government
- Real Food Ct — 17% of income from government
- Family Promise of Morris County Inc — 17% of income from government
- Staywell Health Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc — 17% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association — 16% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc — 13% of income from government
- Madre Latina Organization Inc — 12% of income from government
- The Palace Theater Group Inc — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc — 10% of income from government
- Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective Inc — 9% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Urban League of Greater Hartford Inc — 8% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury Inc — 8% of income from government
- Ywca Hartford Region Inc — 7% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Kelly's Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Horizons Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cornerstone Family Programs — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Northern New Jersey Inc — 3% of income from government
- United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Park Central Inc — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Mary Wade Home Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- Shakesperience Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
- Griffin Hospital — 2% of income from government
- Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
- After School Arts Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Literacy Volunteers of Greater Hartford Inc — 0% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- Howard Whittemore Memorial Library — 0% of income from government
- Midstate Medical Center — 0% of income from government
- Family Intervention Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Volunteer Fire Department of Prospect Inc — 0% of income from government
- Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated — 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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