· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $82k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $467k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $359k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CITY OF BRISTOL | $183,840 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRISTOL FAMILY CENTER | $73,910 |
| BRISTOL COMMUNITY SERVICES | $51,000 |
| BRISTOL HEALTH | $50,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY BRISTOL CORPS | $47,500 |
| TUNXIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC | $34,230 |
| PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC | $33,100 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CT INC | $30,310 |
| THE JOE AND KAY CALVANESE FOUNDATION INC | $27,728 |
| BRISTOL HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $21,270 |
| ST VINCENT DEPAUL MISSION OF BRISTOL INC | $21,060 |
| WEST CEMETERY ASSOCIATION | $18,750 |
| SHEPARD MEADOWS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER INC | $18,250 |
| WHEELER CLINIC | $16,760 |
| BRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER INC | $15,670 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $142k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 5%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
57 repeat relationships: 32 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 8 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, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BBBristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $649k · revenue +81%
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $258k · revenue +23%
- BHBRISTOL HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $253k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- BPBRISTOL POLICE UNIONone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +1% · 25% of their budget
- GHGRANDANSE HEALTH & DEVELOPMENT ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
- PFPRODUCTIONS FOR CHANGEone grant, 2023 · $12k
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.
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.
Founded in 1973, bristol aging & wellness, inc. is a private non-profit corporation, designated as an aging services access point and an area agency on aging. bristol serves as the entry point for elder services in southeastern…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
To help connecticut manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques to become more competitive, supporting the growth of connecticut economy.
The purpose and mission of community counseling of bristol county, inc. (ccbc) is to develop and deliver compassionate, responsive, culturally competent, and quality mental health and substance abuse services to meet the…
Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…
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 community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
How this is measured
69 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. 69 of the 94 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Bristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc ↗
- Who funds TUNXIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION AND ADVISORY BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds West Cemetery Assoc of Bristol CT ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CAROUSEL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CLOCK AND WATCH MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC ↗
- Who funds THE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds The Family Center Inc ↗
- Who funds SHEPARD MEADOWS EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHINGTON-CHESHIRE COMMUNITY YMCA ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds RENBROOK SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CONFERENCE FOR COMMUNITY & JUSTICE OF CONNECTICUT AND WESTERN MASS ↗
- Who funds VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER ↗
- Who funds FOR GOODNESS SAKE INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds STONE RIDGE FOUNDATION NATIONAL CENTER FOR HEALTHY VETERANS ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHINGTON COMMUNITY CULTURAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds BREAD FOR LIFE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOE AND KAY CALVANESE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL CT LITTLE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A NUTMEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL POLICE UNION ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Main Street Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Main Street Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bristol Adult Resource Center Inc: 94% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc: 93% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated: 51% of income from government
- Wheeler Clinic Inc: 47% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc: 46% of income from government
- Rushford Center Inc: 34% of income from government
- St Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc: 31% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc: 30% of income from government
- Southington-Cheshire Community Ymca: 23% of income from government
- She Leads Justice Inc: 22% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc: 15% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc: 14% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc: 7% of income from government
- Kelly's Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum: 7% of income from government
- Bristol Child Development Center Inc: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center: 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
- New England Carousel Museum Inc: 2% of income from government
- Bristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc: 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
- Bristol Hospital Inc: 1% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- The Family Center Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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