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Melville Charitable Trust at a glance

New Haven, CT · Private foundation

Melville Charitable Trust

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$12M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$1.9M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$25MCommunity Improvement$4.4MPublic Benefit$3.6MPhilanthropy$3.6MEmployment$3.4MHuman Services$3.2MSocial Science$2.4MCivil Rights$2.3MOther$0
02beneath the categories

What the grant descriptions say

Themes read from the grant descriptions, beneath the NTEE codes.

Each cell is that theme’s share of the year’s giving · ⚡ ringed cells mark a flagged jump.

03FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

Grant-size mix · FY2020–FY2023

FY20
31%
63%
$8.1M
FY21
31%
67%
$8.8M
FY22
22%
76%
$11.8M
FY23
30%
69%
$12.9M
Under $10k$10k–50k$50k–250k$250k+

In FY2020, 63% of its dollars went out in $250k+ checks; by FY2023, 69%. Each bar is that year’s mix, not its total.

$150,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$131M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION$1,850,000
URBAN STRATEGIES INC$792,680
PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES$750,000
FORGE CITY WORKS$670,000
CENTER FOR BUDGET POLICIES & PRIORITIES$600,000
NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION$550,000
NEW VENTURE FUND (FUNDERS FOR HOUSING AND OPPORTUNITY)$500,000
NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS$403,500
FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNESS$325,000
GROUNDED SOLUTIONS NETWORK$294,000
CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS$265,000
INVISIBLE PEOPLE$250,000
NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO$250,000
INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH$250,000
NATIONAL HOUSING TRUST$250,000
02The need
04

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY20–23, $3.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 31%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $396k → 40%CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $85k → 22%INVISIBLE PEOPLE: $75k → 11%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $262k → 40%CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $85k → 22%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $125k → 21%CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $15k → 22%CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $85k → 22%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $15k → 40%PATHWAYS HOUSING FIRST INSTITUTE: $15k → 10%CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $250k → 22%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 21%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $393k → 40%INVISIBLE PEOPLE: $75k → 11%AMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $10k → 13%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $523k → 40%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 21%URBAN STRATEGIES INC: $396k → 40%INVISIBLE PEOPLE: $15k → 9%INVISIBLE PEOPLE: $75k → 11%YOUTH COLLABORATORY: $50k → 18%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 21%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
NH
WA
MN
IL
MI
NY
MA
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
CO
MO
VA
MD
NC
SC
DC
MS
AL
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$44M · 59 repeat orgs$9.2M to everyone else

59 repeat relationships: 35 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

Of its 49 multi-year relationships, 25 repeat the same amount every year (57% of multi-year dollars), the pattern of a standing commitment.

It also reports $1.1M approved for future payment (Form 990-PF, Part XV): grants committed but not yet paid.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

59
61

Total granted

$44M
$5.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+34%

Still filing today

71%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.5M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementPhilanthropyArts & CultureCivil RightsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • URBAN STRATEGIES INC
    3× · 2022–2024 · $3.2M · revenue +28%

    Urban Strategies Inc.

  • FORGE CITY WORKS INC
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.0M · revenue +251% · 35% of their budget

    Since its founding in 2007, Forge City Works has steadily expanded its Hartford footprint — launching a social enterprise restaurant in 2023, opening a sliding-scale community grocery in 2024, and earning national recognition from the Jacques Pépin Foundation in 2025.

  • Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
    3× · 2020–2022 · $1.9M · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • NV
    NEW VENTURE FUND MTM HOMELESS NARRATIVE
    one grant, 2020 · $700k
  • FF
    FUNDERS FOR HOUSING AND OPPORTUNITY
    one grant, 2023 · $500k
  • FF
    FUNDERS FOR HOUSING OPPORTUNITY NVF
    one grant, 2022 · $500k
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.

Grant terms aren’t stated in the filing; a standing commitment is inferred from a level payment pattern.

What its grantees report

Each stalk is one grantee, graded by how far its own reporting goes: an activity counted, a stated aim, or a change shown.

they say it reaches here……few show it gets hereNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSINGCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSINGPARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIESRONDO COMMUNITY LAND TRUSTNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESSPRESERVATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSINGUP FOR GROWTHHousing & Shelter1/7 flowerINVISIBLE PEOPLEYOUTH COLLABORATORYURBAN STRATEGIES INCPATHWAYS HOUSING FIRST INSTITUTECONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDRENCONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESSAMERICAN PUBLIC HUMAN SERVICES ASSOCIATIONHuman Services1/7 flowerCENTER ON BUDGET POLICY AND PRIORITIESBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTERPublic Benefit0/2 flowerFORGE CITY WORKSTRUST NEIGHBORHOODSTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE OF CDFI CEOSSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCILFINANCIAL SERVICES STAKEHOLDER PROJECT NFPCommunity Improvement1/5 flowerCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECTNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIOBLACK SPACEECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECTCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTINGArts & Culture0/5 flower

Of 26 organizations, 3 show a change. The rest report activities or aims.

Click an area to read it, and step through its organizations.

How this is measured
Read from 26 of the 27 organizations it funds across these 5 areas (the most heavily funded), in their own program-service reporting. Achievements are the organizations’ own.
case studies

Two relationships, up close

One grantee funded repeatedly and one funded once, each traced through its own filings.

PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES

Conviction

A founding bet still compounding

The Melville Charitable Trust is, in a real sense, the origin story here: Partnership for Strong Communities was created by the Trust in 1998 and incorporated as an independent 501(c)(3) in 2004. Across four grants between 2020 and 2023, totalling $3,622,785 and representing as much as 78% of PSC's budget at peak, the organisation grew revenue at an 8% CAGR while net assets more than doubled (2.6x), all while convening Connecticut's affordable-housing ecosystem through its annual conference, HomeConnecticut Initiative, and the nation's first statewide framework to end homelessness, Opening Doors-CT.

5× · 2020–2024
Funded
$4.4M
Granted in total
78%
Peak share of budget
-17%
Their revenue since

FINANCIAL SERVICES STAKEHOLDER PROJECT NFP

Funded once · graduated

One grant, outsized trajectory

A single $100,000 grant in 2020, representing 15% of their budget that year, marked Melville's one moment of partnership with the Financial Services Stakeholder Project (operating as the Private Equity Stakeholder Project). In the years since, the organisation has grown revenue by 409% and expanded net assets 11.6x, sustaining a consistent programme of research on private equity's impact on housing, jobs, human rights, and the environment.

At first grant · 2020
$650k
their revenue
$100k= 15% of it
once
Latest filing · 2024
$3.3M+409%
grown on its own, no further grants
2024 · what they did next

Conducted and distributed research studies analyzing the impact of financial services firms on stakeholder groups including human rights, jobs, housing, consumers, and the environment.

projects.propublica.org
How this is measured
Trajectories are each organization’s own subsequent IRS filings; milestones are from the public record, linked to source. Revenue is the organization’s whole income from every source. We date what happened after a grant and do not claim the grant caused it.
04Its field

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.

1
National Housing Conference Inc

The national housing conference has been defending the american home since 1931. we believe everyone in america should have equal opportunity to live in a quality, affordable home in a thriving community. nhc convenes and collaborates with…

Housing & Shelter
2
Central Indiana Corporate Partnership Inc

Central indiana corporate partnership (cicp) is an alliance of indiana's business and research university leaders coming together to foster long-term prosperity for the region. cicp's mission is to transform the economy of indiana in order…

Community Improvement
3
Neighborhood Reinvestment Corporation

The neighborhood reinvestment corporation (d.b.a neighborworks america) is a congressionally chartered public non-profit corporation that creates opportunities for people to live in affordable homes, improve their lives, and strengthen…

—
4
Enterprise Community Investment Inc

All our efforts support our strategic goals to increase housing supply, advance racial equity and build resilience and upward mobility.the organization raises private capital through investment and by forming effective partnerships.…

Housing & Shelter
5
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
6
Coop Careers Inc

Building a movement of diverse, upwardly mobile college grads overcoming underemployment through digital skills and peer connections.

Education
7
Counselors of Real Estate

Cre was established exclusively for real estate advisors who provide intelligent, unbiased, and trusted advice for a client or employer. the purpose of the organization is to serve as an information resource and to provide its members with…

Community Improvement
8
University of New Haven

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…

Education
9
Council for Court Excellence

Council for court excellence's (cce's) mission is to bring people together to conduct research, educate, and advocate to make d.c.'s unique legal systems more just, equitable, and accountable to the community.

—
10
Association of Washington Cities

The association of washington cities builds connections between our state's diverse cities and towns, while providing our members with the support needed to thrive through delivery of data-driven education, nationally recognized pooling…

—
11
Common Future

Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…

Community Improvement
12
United Way of Greater Philadelphia and Southern New Jersey

United way's mission is to end intergenerational poverty in our region by harnessing, leveraging and strategically investing the collective power of donors, advocates and volunteers, to help individuals and families break the cycle of…

Philanthropy
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Partnership for Strong Communities; the most unlike its peers is Drexel University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

84 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. 84 of the 143 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
84/84
Grantees still filing
58/84
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,850,000 · OtherAMALGAMATED CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONAMALGAMATED FOUNDATION: $1,676,000 · OtherAMALGAMATED FOUNDATIONNEW VENTURE FUND FHO: $1,250,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS: $1,250,000 · OtherNATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE: $1,100,000 · OtherCENTER FOR BUDGET POLICIES & PRIORITIES: $950,000 · OtherTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $1,421,782 · OtherCENTER FOR LAND REFORM INC DBA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS: $1,210,000 · OtherGROUNDED SOLUTIONS NETWORK: $934,000 · Other+92 more: $16,341,987 · Other+92 morePARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES: $4,372,785 · Housing & ShelterPARTNERSHIP FOR ST…NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION: $1,925,000 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL LOW INCOM…NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,843,500 · Housing & ShelterNATIONAL ALLIANCE …+6 more: $480,000 · Housing & Shelter+6 moreURBAN STRATEGIES INC: $3,170,360 · Human ServicesURBAN STRATEGI…FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES: $1,225,000 · Human ServicesFUNDERS TOGETH…LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $750,000 · Human ServicesLIVING CITIES …CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $700,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTICUT VO…CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $620,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTICUT CO…INVISIBLE PEOPLE: $490,000 · Human ServicesINVISIBLE PEOP…+3 more: $90,000 · Human ServicesFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $3,005,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $500,000 · Community ImprovementTRUST NEIGHBORHOODS: $400,000 · Community ImprovementAfrican American Alliance of CDFI CEOs: $160,000 · Community Improvement+4 more: $156,955 · Community ImprovementCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $1,927,000 · Public BenefitBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $515,000 · Public Benefit+1 more: $5,000 · Public BenefitNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,250,000 · Arts & CultureECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT: $450,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $375,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $80,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $45,000 · Arts & CultureRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $425,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC: $400,500 · Civil RightsTRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $315,000 · Civil RightsECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT INC: $250,000 · Civil RightsFOOT SOLDIERS PARK INC: $50,000 · Civil Rights+1 more: $23,000 · Civil Rights
Other$27,983,769Housing & Shelter$8,621,285Human Services$7,045,360Community Improvement$4,221,955Public Benefit$2,447,000Arts & Culture$2,200,000Civil Rights$1,463,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetPARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES: $4,372,785 over 5y, 78% of budgetURBAN STRATEGIES INC: $3,170,360 over 3y, 8.7% of budgetFORGE CITY WORKS INC: $3,005,000 over 5y, 35% of budgetCenter on Budget and Policy Priorities: $1,927,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION: $1,925,000 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetNATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS: $1,843,500 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetTHE URBAN INSTITUTE: $1,421,782 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC: $1,250,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES: $1,225,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetCENTER FOR LAND REFORM INC DBA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS: $1,210,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetNATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE: $1,100,000 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetGROUNDED SOLUTIONS NETWORK: $934,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetLIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE: $750,000 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC: $700,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetCONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $620,000 over 4y, 7.0% of budgetNational Coalition for the Homeless: $565,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC: $515,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetINVISIBLE PEOPLE: $490,000 over 5y, 34% of budgetNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES: $450,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetTHE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE COLLABORATIVE INC: $450,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT: $450,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $425,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRIGHT TO THE CITY ALLIANCE: $425,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC: $400,500 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetTRUST NEIGHBORHOODS: $400,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING INC: $375,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITY RESEARCH INC: $357,000 over 3y, 50% of budgetTRUE COLORS UNITED INC: $315,000 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $307,165 over 4y, 14% of budgetPOINT SOURCE YOUTH INC: $265,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC: $255,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetECONOMIC SECURITY PROJECT INC: $250,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetFJC: $240,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $225,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetASSOCIATION OF BLACK FOUNDATION EXECUTIVES INC: $220,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetNATIONAL PARENT LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC: $208,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetUP FOR GROWTH: $180,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetAfrican American Alliance of CDFI CEOs: $160,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetEARN INC: $150,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetCOUNCIL OF STATE GOVERNMENTS: $125,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFINANCIAL SERVICES STAKEHOLDER PROJECT NFP: $100,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDREXEL UNIVERSITY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $90,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $80,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetWORKFORCE ALLIANCE INC: $80,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MINORITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT: $80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budget
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 PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES ↗
  • Who funds URBAN STRATEGIES INC ↗
  • Who funds FORGE CITY WORKS INC ↗
  • Who funds Center on Budget and Policy Priorities ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING COALITION ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESS ↗
  • Who funds THE URBAN INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO INC ↗
  • Who funds FUNDERS TOGETHER TO END HOMELESSNES ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR LAND REFORM INC DBA CENTER FOR COMMUNITY PROGRESS ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds GROUNDED SOLUTIONS NETWORK ↗
  • Who funds LIVING CITIES INC THE NATIONAL COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INITIATIVE ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC ↗
  • Who funds National Coalition for the Homeless ↗
  • Who funds BIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds INVISIBLE PEOPLE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES ↗
  • Who funds THE TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE COLLABORATIVE INC ↗
  • Who funds ECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT ↗
16 internal · 8 shared anchors

How its grantees work together

Partnership for Strong Communities serves as a state partner of the National Low Income Housing Coalition to inform and amplify the national housing agenda with insights from Connecticut. It is one of 16 direct ties among 55 of its grantees, who also cluster around 8 shared regional anchors.

Inferred: ties are read by a model from news and organization websites, and each links to its source.

55
Grantees connected
16
Grantee↔grantee ties
8
Shared anchors (2+ grantees)
213
External links

Tap any organization to trace its collaborations; shared anchors pull toward the center

43 shown · 14 ties
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF EASTERN CONNECTICUT: $20k granted · 8 linksSUNRISE COUNTY ECONOMIC COUNCIL: $3k granted · 3 linksCONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $575k granted · 13 linksNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSING: $1.6M granted · 7 linksNATIONAL LOW INCOME HOUSI…UNITED BLACK FUND OF GREATER CLEVELAND: $50k granted · 4 linksURBAN INSTITUTE: $1.4M granted · 12 linksURBAN INSTITUTERONDO COMMUNITY LAND TRUST: $50k granted · 4 linksMDRC: $75k granted · 5 linksCONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS: $520k granted · 8 linksNATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: $1.0M granted · 3 linksCASE WESTERN RESERVE UNIVERSITY: $100k granted · 5 linksWORKFORCE ALLIANCE: $80k granted · 7 linksNATIONAL PARENT LEADERSHIP TRAINING INSTITUTE: $208k granted · 3 linksNATIONAL LEAGUE OF CITIES: $200k granted · 5 linksFORGE CITY WORKS: $2.3M granted · 4 linksFORGE CITY WORKSCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT: $15k granted · 3 linksSUSTAINABLE CT INC: $15k granted · 5 linksBLACK SPACE: $15k granted · 4 linksNATIONAL FAIR HOUSING ALLIANCE: $850k granted · 5 linksNATIONAL COALITION FOR THE HOMELESS: $265k granted · 4 linksGRANTMAKERS FOR EFFECTIVE ORGANIZATIONS: $4k granted · 4 linksOPEN COMMUNITIES ALLIANCE: $10k granted · 3 linksBIPARTISAN POLICY CENTER: $515k granted · 3 linksMIDDLESEX UNITED WAY: $20k granted · 3 linksECONOMIC HARDSHIP REPORTING PROJECT: $450k granted · 10 linksPARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES: $3.6M granted · 6 linksPARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG CO…NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $20k granted · 3 linksPRESERVATION OF AFFORDABLE HOUSING: $15k granted · 3 linksUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $90k granted · 3 linksTRUE COLORS UNITED: $300k granted · 3 linksCENTER ON BUDGET POLICY AND PRIORITIES: $2.2M granted · 3 linksCENTER ON BUDGET POLICY A…CT FAIR HOUSING CENTER: $23k granted · 3 linksPATHWAYS HOUSING FIRST INSTITUTE: $15k granted · 4 linksTHE AFRICAN AMERICAN ALLIANCE OF CDFI CEOS: $60k granted · 6 linksURBAN STRATEGIES INC: $2.0M granted · 10 linksURBAN STRATEGIES INCGROUNDED SOLUTIONS NETWORK: $640k granted · 3 linksCORPORATION FOR SUPPORTIVE HOUSING: $225k granted · 6 linksPOINT SOURCE YOUTH: $215k granted · 9 linksCAREER RESOURCES: $50k granted · 4 linksHEARTLAND ALLIANCE: $412k granted · 6 linksUNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT: $15k granted · 7 linksCONNECTICUT PUBLIC BROADCASTING: $240k granted · 5 linksINVISIBLE PEOPLE: $240k granted · 5 links
grantee external partner named by both stated inferred

Tap any organization in the graph to trace its collaborations, or start with the strongest ties below.

Strongest grantee↔grantee ties

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    explicit Affiliation
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    explicit Joint program
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    explicit Joint program
  • ↔
    explicit Coalition
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    explicit Joint program

Anchors several grantees share

  • 2 grantees
  • 2 grantees
  • 2 grantees
  • 2 grantees
  • 2 grantees
  • 2 grantees
Joint program 136Coalition 44Affiliation 39Referral network 5Funding 3Merger / affiliation 2
How this is measured
Ties are extracted by a model from news and organization websites, not from tax filings, so they are directional rather than exhaustive. Corroborated ties were named independently by both organizations.
Cause groups: Arts & Culture, Civil Rights, Community Improvement, Education, Employment, Health, Housing & Shelter, Human Services, Philanthropy, Public Benefit, Social Science, Unclassified, Youth Development

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.

Hartford Foundation f…William Caspar Graust…Liberty Bank Foundati…The Connecticut Commu…The Kresge FoundationFairfield County's Co…Annie E Casey Foundat…The Connecticut Proje…The Community Foundat…The Robert Wood Johns…Connecticut Health Fo…The Community Foundat…
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT36.3× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Kresge Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Project Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Melville Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Melville Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
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no gov · 100%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 34%
  • United Way of Connecticut Inc: 100% of income from government
  • The Housing Collective Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Workforce Alliance Inc: 77% of income from government
  • The Technical Assistance Collaborative Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Institute for Community Research Inc: 48% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Haven Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Mobility Works Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Open Communities Alliance Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Career Resources Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Connecticut Fair Housing Center Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy: 24% of income from government
  • Reinstitute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc: 5% of income from government
  • African American Alliance of Cdfi CEOs: 3% of income from government
  • Preservation of Affordable Housing Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Forge City Works Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Partnership for Strong Communities: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
8report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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Find your warmest path to Melville Charitable Trust through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 143 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home