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Kent Presents Inc

The organizations mission is to provide direct educational and cultural opportunities of local and national significance through an annual conference of educational, intellectual, and cultural topics in the kent, ct and surrounding towns in litchfield county.

$126k
Granted FY2018
10
Grants FY2018
1
States reached
$9k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2018.

Housing & Shelter$40kEducation$34kFood & Nutrition$23kHuman Services$12kHealth$12kEmployment$12kPhilanthropy$8kPublic Safety & Disaster$6k
02FY2018 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 10 grants below total $69,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $126,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $57,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$6,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$0
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KENT MEMORIAL LIBRARY$9,000
LOAVES & FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE$8,500
KENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC$8,000
KENT EDUCATION CENTER & NURSERY SCH$7,500
THE GATHERING PLACE OF TORRINGTON$6,500
COMMUNITY CULINARY SCHOOL OF NE CT$6,000
CHILDRENS CENTER OF NEW MILFORD$6,000
GREENWOODS COUNSELING REFERRALS INC$6,000
KENT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$6,000
KENT VILLAGE HOUSING FOR ELDERLY$5,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$124k · 9 repeat orgs$21k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
2

Total granted

$124k
$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+245%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18
Housing & ShelterEducationHuman ServicesHealthPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KL
    KENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $19k · revenue +457%
  • KA
    KENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $16k · revenue +305%
  • KC
    KENT COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $15k · revenue +62%

Funded once

  • KC
    KENT COMMUNITY FUND INCgraduated
    2× · 2017–2018 · $8k · revenue +46%
  • TC
    THE CORNER FOOD PANTRY INCgraduated
    2× · 2017–2018 · $7k · revenue +245%
How this is measured

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

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Kent Community Foundation

To strengthen and support our community through partnerships and philanthropy.

Philanthropy
2
Kent Free Library Foundation Inc

The foundation serves as a vehicle to receive essentially unsolicited donations which are used to benefit the kent free library and its programs.

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3
Kent Attainable Housing Inc

To break the cycle of poverty by building or renovating affordable houses and partnering with low income, working families to prepare for and buy a home.

Housing & Shelter
4
Kent County Community Action Agency

Provide daycare, after school care & nutritional feeding program to children ages 1 to 12 in families with significantly low household income

Human Services
5
Emergency Food Aid in Southbury

Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.

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6
Norwalk Congregate Homes for the Elderly Inc

The corporation owns and operates a 49 unit hud subsidized low income elderly housing

Housing & Shelter
7
Kent Economic Partnership Inc

The kent economic partnership (kep) is a non-profit organization created to support and expand business interests throughout central delaware.

Community Improvement
8
Kent-Delord House Museum
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9
Kearney Housing Development Corporation

This organization provides services to kearney area individuals in need.

Housing & Shelter
10
Kent Historical Society

Organization that strives to be the primary kent history resource and reference center, leading the community in the collection, preservation and interpretation of kent's heritage through exhibits, educational programs and activities. the…

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11
Norwalk Childcare Center Inc

Child care

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12
Newtown Housing for the Elderly Inc

Newtown housing for the elderly, inc., ("nhe"), is a non-profit organization established to provide low cost housing for those persons aged sixty-two or older and to those persons who are handicapped or disabled. nhe operates nunnawauk…

Housing & Shelter
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kent Community Fund Inc; the most unlike its peers is New Beginnings of Northwest Hills Litchfield County Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

12 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/12
Grantees still filing
9/12
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

KENT COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 · OtherKENT COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INCNEW BEGINNINGS OF NORTHWEST HILLS LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $13,000 · OtherNEW BEGINNINGS OF NORTHWEST HILLS LITCHF…THE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF NEW MILFORD INC: $12,000 · OtherTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF NEW MILFORD INCCOMMUNITY CULINARY SCHOOL OF NW CT LLC: $11,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY CULINARY SCHOOL OF NW CT LLCKENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $16,000 · Housing & ShelterKENT AFFORDABLE HOUSI…KENT VILLAGE HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $11,000 · Housing & ShelterKENT VILLAGE HOUSING …KENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $18,500 · EducationKENT LIBRARY A…LOAVES & FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $15,500 · Human ServicesLOAVES & FIS…GREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC: $11,500 · HealthGREENWOOD…KENT COMMUNITY FUND INC: $7,500 · PhilanthropyTHE CORNER FOOD PANTRY INC: $7,000 · Food & NutritionKENT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $6,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$51,500Housing & Shelter$27,000Education$18,500Human Services$15,500Health$11,500Philanthropy$7,500Food & Nutrition$7,000Public Safety & Disaster$6,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKENT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $18,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetKENT AFFORDABLE HOUSING INC: $16,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetLOAVES & FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE INC: $15,500 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetKENT COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $15,000 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S CENTER OF NEW MILFORD INC: $12,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC: $11,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKENT VILLAGE HOUSING FOR THE ELDERLY INC: $11,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CORNER FOOD PANTRY INC: $7,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetKENT VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Babbitt Family Charit…Union Savings Bank Fo…The Connecticut Commu…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Babbitt Family Charitable TrustNY15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Babbitt Family Charitable Trust · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Kent Presents Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Kent Presents Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The Children's Center of New Milford Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 12 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2018, released 2018. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2019) is on record and reports no grant expense, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this funder made grants.

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