· Private foundation
Mary V Ricci Trust
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k11 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $54k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER | $18,000 |
| CONN INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND | $18,000 |
| CONN CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CTR FDN | $18,000 |
| THE GAYLORD HOSPITAL | $9,200 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN | $9,200 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $4,600 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $4,600 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC | $4,600 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOC | $4,600 |
| MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $500 |
| ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD | $250 |
| MIDDLESEX COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $250 |
| CENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY | $250 |
| OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS PARISH | $210 |
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 (FY21–25, $24k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $250 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- MMMidstate Medical Center5× · 2021–2025 · $83k · revenue +17%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +156%
- GHGaylord Hospital INC5× · 2021–2025 · $42k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- TCTUNXIS COMMUNITY COLLEGEone grant, 2023 · $250
- SCSOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITYone grant, 2024 · $250
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2021 · $250
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.
Dickinson college provides a useful, innovative and interdisciplinary education in the liberal arts and sciences to prepare students to lead rich and fulfilling lives of engaged global citizenship
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
Organization's mission bentley university believes good business can impact more than the bottom line - it can change the world. bentley is a community of future business leaders who will deliver value in the marketplace and lasting…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Benedictine college's mission as a catholic, benedictine, liberal arts, residential college is the education of men and women within a community of faith & scholarship.
Education, research, medical services and other public services.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
As expressions of god's healing love, witnessed through the ministry of jesus, we are steadfast in serving all, especially those who are poor and vulnerable.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
How this is measured
11 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. 11 of the 30 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 Midstate Medical Center ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC ↗
- Who funds Gaylord Hospital INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds University of New Haven ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds PROVIDENCE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Franklin Pierce University ↗
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: Meriden Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mary V Ricci Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mary V Ricci Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc: 10% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc: 6% of income from government
- University of New Haven: 2% of income from government
- Endicott College: 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
- Midstate Medical Center: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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