· Private foundation
Mfund Inc
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, FY2017 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k56 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $73k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| VELODROME DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION | $30,000 |
| SHORELINE ARTS ALLIANCE | $15,008 |
| ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY | $15,000 |
| INTERNATION FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS | $12,500 |
| CORNELL SCOTT HILL HEALTH CENTER | $6,300 |
| CONNECTICUT FARMLAND TRUST | $5,000 |
| ANTHONY TRUST ASSOCIATION | $5,000 |
| ORCHESTRA NEW ENGLAND | $3,000 |
| DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN | $3,000 |
| THE LEGACY THEATRE | $3,000 |
| NEW HAVEN LEON SCP | $2,533 |
| GUILFORD INTERFAITH VOLUNTEERS | $2,500 |
| SOUND LIFE CONNECTIONS | $2,500 |
| COMMON GROUND HIGH SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| CCAP CT CYCLING ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM | $2,500 |
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 (FY17–20, $11k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +31% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
73 repeat relationships: 42 still active in FY2025, 31 since wound down; 16 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFConnecticut Farmland Trust Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +46%
- TATHE ANTHONY TRUST ASSOCIATION7× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +136%
- CSCITY SEED INC9× · 2017–2025 · $32k · revenue +349%
Funded once
- CGCommon Groundone grant, 2017 · $11k
- FFlywaysone grant, 2019 · $10k
- TEThe Everybody Plays Foundationone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
The mission of the new canaan land trust is to foster a connection between the new canaan community and its natural resources through the conservation and sustainable stewardship of our open space.
Conserving the land. connecting the community. greenwich land trust conserves open space, connects our community with the natural world, and inspires the next generation of conservationists. the land trust permanently protects and cares…
The greenwich tree conservancy is open to all interested citizens, governed by a board and advised by an advisory board. it was created to preserve and enhance the tree and forest resources of greenwich, ct to benefit the community, its…
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…
The national forest foundation (nff), chartered by congress, turns america's love of nature into meaningful action for 193-million acre national forest system through on the ground program work and grant making activities, and accepts and…
To promote, for the benefit of the general public, the conservation of land and water natural resources principally in, but not limited to, the town of kent, connecticut.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
See schedule onylcv is a non-partisan policy making and political action organization that works to make environmental protection a top priority with elected officials, decision-makers and the voters by evaluating incumbent performance and…
See schedule onylcvef's mission is to educate, engage and empower new yorkers to be effective advocates on behalf of the environment from clean energy and funding for parks, to solid waste and green buildings. first, we educate new yorkers…
How this is measured
78 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 78 of the 130 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 VELODROME DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ANTHONY TRUST ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CITY SEED INC ↗
- Who funds CT CYCLING ADVANCEMENT PROGRAMINC ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ORCHESTRA NEW ENGLAND ↗
- Who funds MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds THE ELM SHAKESPEARE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HAVENS HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA GUILFORD INTERFAITH VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds CORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Star Track Cycling Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC FOR THE EARTH INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ACROSS THE SEA INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Yale University · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Seedlings Foundation · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · The Stoddard Family Foundation · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Mfund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Mfund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- City Seed Inc: 87% of income from government
- Shoreline Greenway Trail Inc: 64% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc: 42% of income from government
- Vista Life Innovations Inc: 33% of income from government
- Christian Community Action Inc: 29% of income from government
- Massaro Community Farm Inc: 27% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy: 24% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc: 21% of income from government
- Shoreline Arts Alliance Inc: 14% of income from government
- Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation: 12% of income from government
- Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc): 11% of income from government
- New Haven Ecology Project Inc: 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- Neighborhood Music School Inc: 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven: 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc: 1% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc: 1% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Guilford Art Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre: 1% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc: 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Eli Whitney Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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