· Private foundation
Joseph a Baloga Tr
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.
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 $10k7 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $198k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ray of Light Farm | $198,000 |
| Stone Coast Community Church | $10,000 |
| Hope for our Sisters Inc | $4,000 |
| Special Olympics CT | $2,000 |
| Steps Inc | $1,000 |
| Alicias Angels | $1,000 |
| Boxes to Boots | $1,000 |
| Forever My Heart Foundation | $1,000 |
| Groton Memorial Library | $500 |
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, $226k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 10% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 11% of Joseph a Baloga Tr’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 86% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 76% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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
- RORAY OF LIGHT FARM INC3× · 2020–2025 · $199k · revenue +10%
- HFHope for Our Sisters Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $105k · revenue +17%
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC4× · 2020–2025 · $94k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- JRJericho Road Community Centerone grant, 2021 · $35k
- FIFOREVER IN MY HEART FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +128% · 52% of their budget
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +112%
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.
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. the mercy hospital is a member of trinity health of new england…
United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…
Liberation programs' mission is to provide prevention, treatment, community outreach, and recovery services to help individuals and their families impacted by substance use and mental health conditions to foster hope and maintain wellness.
We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. saint mary home is a member of mercy community health and trinity health.
Gosnold, inc. was established for the rehabilitation of substance abusers and offers addiction and mental health treatment on an in-patient and out-patient basis.
To provide comprehensive care and expert recovery services to any individual or family on their journey to restore hope, health, and healing; to empower those in need to get the compassionate and personalized support they deserve to help…
The mission of Safe Futures is to stop abuse, restore hope, and save lives for those impacted by domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, trafficking, elder abuse, and child abuse in southeastern Connecticut.
Hospital for Special Care is a 236-Bed Rehabilitation and Chronic Disease hospital, serving patients in these primary areas: Inpatient and Outpatient Rehabilitation.
To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.
We provide people with effective support, treatments, and strategies so they may live their lives to the fullest.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
We, mercy community health and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming presence within our communities. mercy community health is a member of trinity health.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Special Olympics Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Steps Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 32 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 RAY OF LIGHT FARM INC ↗
- Who funds Hope for Our Sisters Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Mercy Ships International ↗
- Who funds FOREVER IN MY HEART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Boxes to Boots Incorporated ↗
- Who funds STEPS Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ARC EASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds MAYO CLINIC ↗
- Who funds MALTA INC ↗
- Who funds TRICIRCLE CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN 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: The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable 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 Joseph a Baloga Tr 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 Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc — 88% of income from government
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation — 77% of income from government
- Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 55% of income from government
- Tricircle Corporation — 43% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Steps Inc — 18% 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.