How much did MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 49% of MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

educational enrichmentoak hillartchurchlivesfinancialproducing

2019

dedicatedethel walkerstudentseducational enrichmentlife-longrenbrooklead

2020

covidlivingmentalreturningchrysalis center'semployment trainingpoverty

2021

covidconstructionmscfenergypromotingmultipleplainville

2022

dogspantrydomestic violencehorsemanshipchurchcitizenswomen children

2023

distributionimprovementsofficerscourtgirlslegal representationdogs

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k17 grants · $119k
$10k–50k17 grants · $308k
$50k–250k6 grants · $570k

$10,180

Median grant

States reached

$37M

Total assets

Largest grants

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER$171,870
CITY OF BRISTOL$119,860
UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL CT$97,990
THE SALVATION ARMY$72,724
ST ANDREW EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH$57,988
SOUTHINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY$50,000
CITY OF BRISTOL PARKS RECREATION YOUTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES$34,010
TUNXIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC$33,790
ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CT INC$31,765
BRISTOL HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION$25,850
GRAND'ANSE HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATION$19,999
WEST CEMETERY ASSOCIATION$18,500
THE CAROUSEL MUSEUM$18,440
BRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER INC$16,700
AMERICAN CLOCK & WATCH MUSEUM$14,780

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $116k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in 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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$5.7M · 54 repeat orgs$312k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

54 repeat relationships — 25 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$5.7M

$163k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+6%

Still filing today

81%

50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureHealthHuman ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterOther

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

BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $575k · revenue +81%
TC
Tunxis Community College Foun
8× · 2017–2024 · $288k · revenue +3% · 25% of their budget
BH
Bristol Hosp Developt Found
8× · 2017–2024 · $232k · revenue +92%

Funded once

BP
BRISTOL POLICE UNION
one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -4% · 25% of their budget
PF
PRODUCTIONS FOR CHANGE
one grant, 2023 · $12k
R1
REGION 10 MAKE A MARK INC
one grant, 2020 · $9k

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

04Your field

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.

Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health

Capitol Child Development Center

The center was founded by the state of ct as a model for employer sponsored childcare programs.

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Bristol Aging & Wellness Inc

The agency provides comprehensive services to elders in the towns of attleboro, berkley, dighton, fall river, freetown, mansfield, north attleboro, norton, raynham, rehoboth, seekonk, somerset, swansea, taunton, and westport.

Human Services

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

Bristol Chamber of Commerce

The Bristol Chamber of Commerce strengthens the economic base by providing a professional focus on the business needs of Bristol by facilitating a globally competitive environment

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Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare.

Animals

Connecticut Womens Hall of

An educational organization whose mission is to honor publicly the achievements of connecticut women, preserve their stories, educate the public and inspire the continued achievements of women and girls.

Arts & Culture

Connstep Inc

To help ct manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques.

Community Improvement

Connecticut Association of Health Care

Providing services to and advocates for ct's providers of long-term and assisted living care.

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Chamber of Commerce of Eastern

The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut, Inc. is a collaborative of business and community leaders dedicated to securing and enhancing the economic vitality of eastern Connecticut.

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Connecticut Trust for Historic

Interacts with other groups, individuals and organizations to encourage, advocate and facilitate historical preservation throughout connecticut.

Arts & Culture

United Way of Connecticut Inc

The mission of united way of connecticut is to help the people of connecticut to thrive through trusted partnerships and innovative solutions.

Philanthropy

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Connecticut Institute for the and the most unlike its peers is The Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall. 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 4% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

4%3/82

the rest of the field

421/5,167

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.

05the grantee network

66 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

63/66

Grantees still filing

46/66

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$3,244,785Philanthropy$682,494Youth Development$607,830Arts & Culture$593,754Health$525,598Environment$228,030Human Services$171,268

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.

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.

Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT55.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Greater New · United Way Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of West Central · Torrington Savings Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc

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 organisation MAIN STREET COMMUNITY 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

30get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: TERRYVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.1× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 061526678 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on TERRYVILLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 56% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Main Street Community Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Main Street Community Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

66 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Main Street Community Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

66 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Main Street Community Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph