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Kitchings Family Foundation
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 $10k22 grants · $110k
- $10k–50k111 grants · $2.1M
- $50k–250k22 grants · $1.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC | $184,000 |
| MULTIDISCIPLINNARY ASSOC FOR PSYCHEDELIC | $120,000 |
| SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATOIN SOCIETY | $105,000 |
| WBUR(TRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY) | $100,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY | $100,000 |
| ABORTION CARE NETWORK | $100,000 |
| WILLIAMS MEMORIAL INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| THE DR MARTIN LUTHER KING JR SCHOLARSH | $75,000 |
| QUEBEC LABRADOR FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| GARDE ARTS CENTER INC | $70,000 |
| THE CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY | $70,000 |
| THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION | $70,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NE | $60,000 |
| ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INCORPORATED | $60,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CT | $56,578 |
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, $864k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 43% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +32% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
165 repeat relationships — 139 still active in FY2025, 26 since wound down; 14 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $292k 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
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC6× · 2020–2025 · $619k · revenue +104%- MMMystic Museum of Art Inc5× · 2020–2025 · $450k · revenue +67%
- TQTHE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $385k · revenue +32%
Funded once
- TDTHE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECTone grant, 2020 · $80k · revenue -5%
UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2022 · $50k · revenue -4%- CBCONNECTICUT BRAIN TUMOR ALLIANCE INCone grant, 2022 · $30k · revenue +7%
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 new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
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…
The westport library was established for the purpose of maintaining a public library in the town of westport, connecticut. the library is committed to empowering the individual and strengthening the community through dynamic interaction…
Conservation of lyme's natural, scenic and historic land & water resources.
The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The mission of the mount desert land & garden preserve is to conserve and share the beauty of our historic lands and gardens.
To create memorable guest experiences which promote actions to help save species, habitats, and the communities who share those same landscapes
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Louis Armstrong Educational Foundat. 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 34 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
172 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. 172 of the 224 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 MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Mystic Museum of Art Inc ↗
- Who funds THE QUEBEC-LABRADOR FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ABORTION CARE NETWORK ↗
- Who funds PINE POINT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARTISTS COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SEA SHEPHERD CONSERVATION SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds Safe Futures Inc ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FOR DIVERSITY IN THE ART ↗
- Who funds Garde Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds OCEAN REEF CHAPEL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Jazz Foundation of America Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE SHORELINE SOUP KITCHENS & PANTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds ELLIS MARSALIS CENTER FOR MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds THE ANA GRACE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds WILLIAMS MEMORIAL INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds DENISON PEQUOTSEPOS NATURE CENTER ↗
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 Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc · The Edward and Mary Lord Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · The Foxboro Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr 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 Kitchings Family Foundation 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.
- United Way of Connecticut Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Arc Eastern Connecticut Inc — 88% of income from government
- MASS211 Inc — 79% of income from government
- Thames River Community Service Inc — 76% of income from government
- Groton Open Space Association Inc — 50% of income from government
- New London Homeless Hospitality Center — 47% of income from government
- The New London Community Meal Center Inc — 44% of income from government
- Mid-Columbia Community Action Council — 43% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- The Next Door Inc — 39% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- The Artists Collective Inc — 35% of income from government
- Jazz House Kids Inc — 29% of income from government
- Waterford Country School Inc — 29% of income from government
- Lymes Youth Service Bureau — 23% of income from government
- Avalonia Land Conservancy Inc — 21% of income from government
- Cascades Carnivore Project — 16% of income from government
- The Coral Restoration Foundation Inc — 16% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Tri-Town Youth Services Bureau Inc — 10% of income from government
- Garde Arts Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Cappella Cantorum Inc — 10% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- Harriet U Allyn Testamentary Trust — 9% of income from government
- Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
- American Antiquarian Society — 7% of income from government
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc — 3% of income from government
- Essex Winter Series Inc — 3% of income from government
- Expressiones Cultural Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester County Horticultural Society — 2% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Chesapeake Bay Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Writer's Block Ink Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Stonington Free Library Inc — 2% of income from government
- Grub Street Inc — 2% of income from government
- Lyme Art Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- The Community Music School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Incarnation Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Berklee College of Music Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center — 0% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College — 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
- Mystic & Noank Library Inc — 0% of income from government
- K9S for Warriors Inc — 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.