Connecticut · Community foundation
Main Street Community Foundation Inc
Inspiring donors and community partners to foster a sustainable legacy of impactful giving by encouraging and promoting: gift planning, prudent stewardship of assets, effective grant making and community leadership.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 35
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $909k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $12,060
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $183,840
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $45M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Main Street Community Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $149k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 40 | $909k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 35 | $998k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $865k | 16% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $860k | 13% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $738k | 19% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $743k | 26% |
| FY2019 | 38 | $724k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $540k | 31% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| City of Bristol | $1,632,508 | 9 | n/a |
| United Way of West Central Connecticut Inc | $697,084 | 9 | 17% |
| Bristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc | $648,840 | 9 | 3% |
| Tunxis Community College Foundation and Advisory Board Inc | $322,015 | 9 | 25% |
| Environmental Learning Centers of Connecticut Inc | $258,340 | 9 | 4% |
| Bristol Hospital Development Foundation Inc | $252,820 | 9 | 3% |
| Bristol Hospital Inc | $228,159 | 7 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $223,924 | 6 | n/a |
| West Cemetery Assoc of Bristol CT | $177,500 | 9 | 7% |
| New England Carousel Museum Inc | $163,435 | 9 | 7% |
Show all 89 grantees
Plus 4 recipients with no EIN on record ($86k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Main Street Community Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 65 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Community Foundation of Greater New Britain · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Sky Bight Foundation Inc · Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Aetna Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Main Street Community Foundation Inc
- How much does Main Street Community Foundation Inc give?
- Main Street Community Foundation Inc reported 42 itemized grants totaling $909,089, out of $1,458,385 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Main Street Community Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (21%), Youth Development (12%), Arts & Culture (10%).
- Who are Main Street Community Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: City of Bristol ($1.6M), United Way of West Central Connecticut Inc ($697k), Bristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc ($649k).
- Does Main Street Community Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Main Street Community Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc, Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc, American Savings Foundation Inc.
- Where is Main Street Community Foundation Inc based?
- Main Street Community Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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