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Meriden Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k112 grants · $440k
- $10k–50k44 grants · $796k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER | $43,000 |
| NEW OPPORTUNITES OF GREATER MERIDEN | $32,000 |
| MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $32,000 |
| YALE LAW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND | $28,750 |
| TRINITY COLLEGE | $28,750 |
| OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS PARISH | $28,750 |
| GIRLS INC | $28,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN | $27,000 |
| BEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER | $25,000 |
| WOMEN & FAMILIES CENTER | $25,000 |
| MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER | $25,000 |
| IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH | $24,000 |
| FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $23,000 |
| FRIEND OF THE MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY | $20,000 |
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY ON BEHALF OF PIRRUCCIO SAMANTHA | $15,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $456k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
247 repeat relationships — 114 still active in FY2024, 133 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $166k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- MMMidstate Medical Center8× · 2017–2024 · $692k · revenue +91%
- MBMERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2017–2024 · $219k · revenue +76%
TRINITY COLLEGE8× · 2017–2024 · $204k · revenue +31%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $10k
- COCITY OF MERIDEN YOUTH SERVICESone grant, 2017 · $10k
- MCMIDSTATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue -14%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
Meredith college, grounded in the liberal arts and committed to professional preparation, educates and inspires students to live with integrity and provide leadership for the needs, opportunities and challenges of society.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midstate Arc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center Preschool Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 48 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 382 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds Midstate Medical Center ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRINITY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds Gaylord Hospital INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds Change The Play Inc ↗
- Who funds Skills Camp Inc ↗
- Who funds VILLANOVA UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL SABBY SPONSORSHIPS INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN-WALLINGFORD CHRYSALIS INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The James H Napier Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of Meriden & Wallingford Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · The John G Martin Foundation · The Petit Family Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Mary V Ricci Trust · Friends Fiduciary Corporation
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 organization Meriden Foundation 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.
- Midstate Arc Inc — 94% of income from government
- Kuhn Employment Opportunities Inc — 91% of income from government
- Workforce Alliance Inc — 77% of income from government
- New Opportunities Inc — 70% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc — 47% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Beat the Street Community Center Inc — 24% of income from government
- Meriden Farmers Market Inc — 22% of income from government
- Ball Headz Inc — 20% of income from government
- Women and Families Center — 18% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 18% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc — 10% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
- Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 7% of income from government
- Albertus Magnus College — 6% of income from government
- Center Preschool Inc — 6% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Trustees of Clark University — 2% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
- Springfield College — 1% of income from government
- Merrimack College — 1% of income from government
- Meriden-Wallingford Chrysalis Inc — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Bentley University — 1% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- Social Sabby Sponsorships Inc — 0% of income from government
- Trinity College — 0% of income from government
- Midstate Medical Center — 0% of income from government
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 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.
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