· Public charity
Middlesex United Way Inc
By cultivating leadership and partnerships, bringing resources together, and investing in our community, Middlesex United Way acts as a catalyst to achieve measurable positive impact in youth opportunity, creating healthy communities, financial security, equity, and community resiliency.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2023.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 21 grants below total $311,810 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $370,045 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $58,235 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under $10k9 grants · $67k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $245k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| YMCA OF NO MIDDLESEX CITY | $40,767 |
| THE CONNECTION - EDDY SHELTER | $32,108 |
| MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL PERINATAL PROG | $24,681 |
| GILEAD COMMUNITY SERVICES | $23,181 |
| MARC - COMMUNITY RESOURCES | $21,862 |
| CHILD FAMILY AGENCY OF SE CT | $17,181 |
| MIDDLETOWN YOUTH SERVICES | $16,750 |
| HOPE PARTNERSHIP | $16,016 |
| KUHN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES | $15,000 |
| ODDFELLOWS PLAYHOUSE | $13,250 |
| COLUMBUS HOUSE | $12,744 |
| WOMEN & FAMILIES CENTER - SACS | $11,681 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL & NE CT | $9,268 |
| THE CONNECTION - HALLIE HOUSE | $8,681 |
| MX CITY - COALITION ON HOMELESSNESS | $8,580 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +31% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2023, 19 since wound down.
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 FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- YMYOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC7× · 2017–2023 · $462k · revenue +37%
- TCTHE CONNECTION INC7× · 2017–2023 · $340k · revenue +16%
- IIIMPACT INC7× · 2017–2023 · $287k · revenue +90%
Funded once
- MHMIDDLESEX HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $25k
- MYMIDDLESEX YOUTH SERVICE BUREAUSone grant, 2022 · $17k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $5k
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.
United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…
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Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
To provide support services to individuals with developmental disabilities throughout connecticut and to maintain a commitment to empower individuals with developmental disabilities and their families to have more choices and opportunities…
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.
United way of greater new haven brings people and organizations together to create solutions to our region's most pressing challenges in the areas of education, health, and financial stability, grounded in racial and social justice. we…
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Positively impacting the lives of our clients and their communities by providing services that facilitate skill development, enhance responsible citizenship, and increase overall well-being.
CHR's mission is to provide treatment, support, rehabilitation, prevention, and education by a well-trained and dedicated staff of professionals who are committed to recovery. Notably, CHR was the first nonprofit in CT to meet all the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut and the most unlike its peers is John J Driscoll United Labor Agency. 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 50 years old; the field is 21. 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 43 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
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 YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NORTHERN MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTION INC ↗
- Who funds IMPACT INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds GILEAD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ODDFELLOWS PLAYHOUSE ↗
- Who funds CHILD AND FAMILY AGENCY OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds HOPE PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds Rushford Center Inc ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL MIDDLETOWN ↗
- Who funds KUHN EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS VALLEY SHORE CT INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Middlesex United Way Inc ↗
- Who funds YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES OF HADDAM-KILLINGWORTH INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HADDAM YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds SAINT LUKE'S HOME ↗
- Who funds United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds John J Driscoll United Labor Agency ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds Durham-Middlefield Youth & Family Services Inc ↗
- Who funds Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds TRI-TOWN YOUTH SERVICES BUREAU INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY 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: Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Thomas Atkins Meml Fd Tr Uw
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 Middlesex United Way Inc 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.
- United Way of Connecticut Inc — 100% of income from government
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Connection Inc — 99% of income from government
- Kuhn Employment Opportunities Inc — 91% of income from government
- Gilead Community Services Inc — 62% of income from government
- Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 55% of income from government
- Youth & Family Services of Haddam-Killingworth Inc — 36% of income from government
- Rushford Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Women and Families Center — 18% of income from government
- Durham-Middlefield Youth & Family Services Inc — 14% of income from government
- East Haddam Youth & Family Services Inc — 13% of income from government
- Tri-Town Youth Services Bureau Inc — 10% of income from government
- Westbrook Youth and Family Services Inc — 7% of income from government
- St Vincent Depaul Middletown — 6% of income from government
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
- United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 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.