How much did MERIDEN FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 76% of MERIDEN FOUNDATION’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

joseph churchrichardaustinbehalf santoskellybehalf colemanbehalf maloney

2019

behalf santoskellybehalf maloneyfairfield behalfbehalf colemanbehalf carnotmichael

2020

behalf labissionerelabissionere chloemeriden-wallingfordkellybehalf santosjackfairfield behalf

2021

emmaarianaroger williamswilliams behalfisabellabehalf martinbehalf buscemi

2022

behalf wozniakelizabethbehalf nguyenarianaroger williamswilliams behalfbrown tanner

2023

behalf nguyenelizabethbehalf wozniakbrownbehalf sweeneyarianaroger williams

2024

tunxis behalftran ngoc-anhbehalf benignibehalf gomezgomez brianbehalf pirrucciobrown behalf

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 156 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k112 grants · $440k
$10k–50k44 grants · $796k

$5,000

Median grant

States reached

$28M

Total assets

Largest grants

MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER$43,000
MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY$32,000
NEW OPPORTUNITES OF GREATER MERIDEN$32,000
OUR LADY QUEEN OF ANGELS PARISH$28,750
TRINITY COLLEGE$28,750
YALE LAW SCHOOL ANNUAL FUND$28,750
GIRLS INC$28,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN$27,000
WOMEN & FAMILIES CENTER$25,000
MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER$25,000
BEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER$25,000
IMMANUEL LUTHERAN CHURCH$24,000
FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH$23,000
FRIEND OF THE MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY$20,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND$15,000

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $131k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 11%. 87% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$8.5M · 254 repeat orgs$654k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

254 repeat relationships — 113 still active in FY2024, 141 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

254

113

Total granted

$8.5M

$477k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%

+22%

Still filing today

11%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $176k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthAnimalsEducationYouth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesOther

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

MM
MIDSTATE MEDICAL CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $692k · revenue +56%
BG
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN
8× · 2017–2024 · $188k · revenue +282%
BT
BEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER
8× · 2017–2024 · $177k · revenue +89%

Funded once

MC
MERIDEN-WALLINGFORD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
one grant, 2020 · $25k
FO
FRIENDS OF THE MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2019 · $13k · revenue +11%
FO
FRIENDS OF MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY
one grant, 2017 · $10k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

Connecticut Humane Society

The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare.

Animals

Connecticut News Project Inc

The mission is to produce original, in-depth, nonpartisan journalism that informs connecticut residents about the impact of public policy, holds governments accountable, and amplifies diverse voices and perspectives.

Arts & Culture

Hartford Hospital

To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.

Health

Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health

Connecticut Court Appointed Special

Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect, so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.

Crime & Legal

Child Advocates of Connecticut Inc

Recruit/train/supervise volunteers that ensure abused & neglected children have a safe home.

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Ct Bar Institute Inc

To offer continuing legal education to connecticut lawyers and the public as well as to provide community outreach.

Education

Meriden Bird Club Inc

Environment

Connecticut Counseling Centers Inc

To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.

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Connecticut Cat Connection Inc

Dedicated to the welfare of animals with a no-kill policy (with medical exceptions). Our efforts are focused primarily on finding loving homes for the many cats that are strays, abused, abandoned, surrendered or impounded.

Animals

Connecticut Explored Inc

To educate the general public about the history and cultural heritage of the State of Connecticut and the role the State and its citizens have played as part of the American experience.

Education

University of Hartford

The university provides a learning environment in which students may transform themselves intellectually, personally and socially.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midstate Arc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trustees of Trinity College the. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 40 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 8% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/45

the rest of the field

938/11,461

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.

05the grantee network

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

38/39

Grantees still filing

32/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$7,171,036Health$904,265Education$333,050Youth Development$282,375Recreation & Sports$244,000Human Services$130,574Animals$86,400

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.

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.

Ion Bank Foundation IncCT34.9× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The James H Napier Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of Meriden & Wallingford Inc · The John G Martin Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater New · Aetna Foundation Inc · Chubb Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

11get no government money at all

2rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SKILLS CAMP INC.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

insufficient risk

Limited financial data in public filings.

Track record & reputation

low risk

6 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 3.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 760803774 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SKILLS CAMP INC, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

Awaiting reportFinancial stability— Runway not derivable from filings.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Meriden Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Meriden Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

MERIDEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Meriden Foundation?

More from the funding graph

MERIDEN FOUNDATION

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to Meriden Foundation?

More from the funding graph