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New Canaan Community Foundation Inc

New canaan community foundation addresses our community's needs by providing leadership on local issues, making impactful grants, and facilitating new canaan's effective charitable giving.

$2.6M
Granted FY2025still arriving
106
Grants FY2025still arriving
12
States reached
$198k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$3.3MHuman Services$2.8MPublic Benefit$2.3MHealth$2.1MPhilanthropy$1.2MFood & Nutrition$998kEnvironment$890kArts & Culture$853kOther$0
02FY2025 · 106 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 106 grants below total $2,305,520, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,571,413 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $265,893 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k28 grants · $201k
  • $10k–50k70 grants · $1.3M
  • $50k–250k8 grants · $790k
$14,500
Median grant
12
States reached
$32M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TOWN OF NEW CANAAN$198,077
NEW CANAAN YMCA$109,630
TOMMY FUND INC$109,150
NEW CANAAN LAND TRUST$106,513
NEW CANAAN PUBLIC SCHOOLS$85,634
SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC$75,500
PLANET NEW CANAAN$55,600
MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL$50,000
WAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK INC$36,800
PERSON TO PERSON INC$36,250
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER$35,000
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD$35,000
POSITIVE DIRECTIONS - THE CENTER FOR PREVENTION & COUNSELING INC$34,010
GETABOUT INC$30,320
THE CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEW CANAAN$30,200
02The need
03

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 (FY17–25, $2.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%SUNODIA PRAYER COUNSELING (FINDING HOME INSTITUTE): $25k → 22%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $35k → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $25k → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $24k → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $23k → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $20k → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $19k → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $19k → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $19k → 9%STAR INC LIGHTING THE WAY: $16k → 9%ELDERHOUSE: $15k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $14k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $14k → 9%HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL: $13k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK: $35k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK: $35k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK: $35k → 9%THE CARVER: $31k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK: $30k → 9%THE CARVER: $28k → 9%THE CARVER: $21k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK: $17k → 9%FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $12k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY: $12k → 9%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $1.0M → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $30k → 9%LIVEGIRL: $25k → 9%LIVEGIRL: $23k → 9%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $21k → 9%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $17k → 9%LIVEGIRL: $14k → 9%STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN: $13k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY - THE CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT OPPORTUNITY: $38k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY - THE CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT OPPORTUNITY: $34k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $30k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY - THE CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT OPPORTUNITY: $29k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER: $20k → 9%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $20k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY - THE CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT OPPORTUNITY: $19k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $35k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $27k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $25k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER: $14k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER: $13k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $20k → 9%SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER: $13k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY-THE CENTER FOR IMMIGRANT OPPORTUNITY: $13k → 9%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

VT
NH
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
WY
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
UT
WV
VA
MD
TN
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 152 repeat orgs$1.3M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.

152 repeat relationships: 84 still active in FY2025, 68 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

152
133

Total granted

$16M
$902k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+26%

Still filing today

84%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationHealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureRecreation & SportsPhilanthropyOther
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

  • SP
    STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +49%
  • TN
    THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $770k · revenue +27%
  • WC
    WAVENY CARE CENTER INC
    8× · 2018–2025 · $399k · revenue +110%

Funded once

  • WL
    WAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK INC
    one grant, 2017 · $63k
  • TO
    TOWN OF NEW CANAAN - DHHS
    one grant, 2021 · $39k
  • NC
    NEW CANAAN YOUTH FOOTBALL INC
    2× · 2018–2019 · $30k · revenue +10%
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.

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
Western New England University

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…

Education
2
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
3
Seton Hall University

Seton hall university is a catholic institution of higher education

—
4
Connecticut College

Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.

Education
5
Lehigh University

The university's goal in the coming decade is to advance learning through the integration of teaching, research and service to others. the core of this goal is to prepare graduates to engage with the world and lead lives of meaning. to do…

Education
6
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
7
University of Saint Joseph

The university provides a rigorous liberal arts and professional education for a diverse student population. (see schedule o for the organization's mission.)

Education
8
Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc

Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…

Education
9
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Quinnipiac University; the most unlike its peers is Friends of Silversource Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

263 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. 263 of the 315 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)
55
Early backer (in before they grew)
257/263
Grantees still filing
199/263
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TOWN OF NEW CANAAN: $3,400,420 · OtherTOWN OF NEW CANAANNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $516,338 · OtherNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INCNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $477,267 · Other+103 more: $5,171,736 · Other+103 moreSTAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC: $1,124,068 · Human ServicesSTAYING PUT IN N…THE CARVER INC: $231,800 · Human ServicesTHE CARVER INCBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $182,650 · Human ServicesBUILDING ONE COM…DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $166,500 · Human ServicesDOMESTIC VIOLENC…STAR INC - LIGHTING THE WAY: $165,114 · Human ServicesSTAR INC - LIGHT…LiveGirl Inc: $109,208 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $91,808 · Human ServicesSAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC: $85,000 · Human Services+10 more: $370,600 · Human Services+10 moreTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $769,625 · EducationTHE NEW CANAAN…NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $357,400 · EducationNORWALK COMMUN…Yale University: $155,000 · EducationYale Universit…ABC INC OF NEW CANAAN: $134,800 · EducationABC INC OF NEW…SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $123,250 · EducationSACRED HEART U…MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $95,500 · EducationTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $91,525 · Education+25 more: $549,614 · Education+25 moreWAVENY CARE CENTER INC: $399,050 · HealthWAVENY CAR…TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $140,500 · HealthTOURETTE A…SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $137,380 · HealthSILVER HIL…THE TOMMY FUND INC: $109,150 · HealthTHE TOMMY …AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $95,250 · HealthAMERICARES…VOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC: $82,100 · HealthVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $80,700 · HealthLIBERATION PROGRAMS INC: $67,650 · HealthWAVENY LIFECARE NETWORK INC: $62,700 · HealthNorwalk Hospital Foundation: $60,000 · HealthVinceremos Riding Center Inc: $55,000 · Health+12 more: $282,089 · Health+12 morePERSON TO PERSON INC: $391,350 · PhilanthropyNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $145,200 · PhilanthropyGRAND TETON NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $25,000 · PhilanthropySOVEREIGN MILITARY HOSPITALLER ORDER OF SAINT JOHN OF JERUSALEM OF RHODES: $25,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $22,390 · Philanthropy+1 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropySUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC: $164,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $122,700 · Arts & CultureBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $60,000 · Arts & CultureSILVERMINE GUILD OF ARTISTS INC: $52,945 · Arts & CultureSPRUCE PEAK ARTS CENTER FOUNDATION INC: $34,250 · Arts & CultureSTEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC: $22,500 · Arts & CultureTHROWN STONE THEATRE COMPANY: $20,500 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $78,486 · Arts & CultureWAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $315,303 · EnvironmentNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc: $136,215 · EnvironmentEARTHPLACE INC: $72,000 · Environment
Other$9,565,761Human Services$2,526,748Education$2,276,714Health$1,571,569Philanthropy$618,940Arts & Culture$555,381Environment$523,518

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSTAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC: $1,124,068 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC: $769,625 over 9y, 2.3% of budgetNEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC: $516,338 over 8y, 18% of budgetWAVENY CARE CENTER INC: $399,050 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $391,350 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $357,400 over 9y, 3.5% of budgetWAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC: $315,303 over 9y, 23% of budgetTHE CARVER INC: $231,800 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $220,608 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP: $182,650 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $176,250 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $166,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetSTAR INC - LIGHTING THE WAY: $165,114 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetSUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC: $164,000 over 9y, 3.7% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC: $163,000 over 8y, 4.3% of budgetYale University: $155,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $147,050 over 9y, 0.6% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $145,200 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetGETABOUT INC: $142,146 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetTOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC: $140,500 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetSILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC: $137,380 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc: $136,215 over 9y, 1.3% of budgetABC INC OF NEW CANAAN: $134,800 over 9y, 11% of budgetMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $130,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC: $125,100 over 9y, 3.3% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $123,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $122,700 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetLAUREL HOUSE INC: $121,700 over 9y, 0.9% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $119,750 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetNEW CANAAN CARES INC: $116,550 over 9y, 11% of budgetLiveGirl Inc: $109,208 over 9y, 5.2% of budgetTHE TOMMY FUND INC: $109,150 over 1y, 23% of budgetNew Canaan Athletic Foundation Inc: $107,569 over 3y, 12% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $97,950 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTHE EXCHANGE CLUB CENTER FOR THE PREVENTION OF CHILD ABUSE OF SOUTHERN CT INC: $97,200 over 9y, 3.0% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $95,500 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetAMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC: $95,250 over 9y, 0.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $92,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $91,808 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC: $91,525 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC: $85,000 over 8y, 2.5% of budgetVOICES OF SEPTEMBER 11 INC: $82,100 over 9y, 1.9% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $80,700 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC: $79,450 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $78,600 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $78,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBucknell University: $74,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROWAN CENTER INC: $72,500 over 9y, 1.2% 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 STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
  • Who funds WAVENY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
  • Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
  • Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
  • Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
  • Who funds STAR INC - LIGHTING THE WAY ↗
  • Who funds SUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
  • Who funds CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds Yale University ↗
  • Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GETABOUT INC ↗
  • Who funds TOURETTE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds SILVER HILL HOSPITAL INC ↗
  • Who funds New Canaan Nature Center Association Inc ↗
  • Who funds ABC INC OF NEW CANAAN ↗
  • Who funds MID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
  • Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds THE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds LAUREL HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW CANAAN CARES INC ↗
  • Who funds LiveGirl Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE TOMMY FUND INC ↗
  • Who funds New Canaan Athletic Foundation 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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Near and Far Asso…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Stamford Rotary Trust…Peoples United Commun…William Caspar Graust…The Tudor Foundation …Elizabeth Raymond Amb…The Herbert & Nell Si…The Scripps Family Fu…The Inner-City Founda…The John and Ethel Ka…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT126× affinity78 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Tudor Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation

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 New Canaan Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Canaan Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 580%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Star Inc - Lighting the Way: 88% of income from government
  • Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
  • Laurel House Inc: 68% of income from government
  • Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc: 51% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Children in Placement Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Women's Business Development Council Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Horizons Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Ct Community Nonprofit Alliance Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Norwalk Community Health Center: 35% of income from government
  • Community Resources for Justice Inc: 34% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Human Services Council Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Liberation Programs Inc: 24% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy: 24% of income from government
  • Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc: 22% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • Thrown Stone Theatre Company: 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University: 12% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Positive Directions-the Center for Prevention & Counseling Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Community Health Center Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center: 10% of income from government
  • Reach Out and Read Inc: 9% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
  • Northeastern University: 7% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Loyola University Maryland Inc: 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston College: 3% of income from government
  • Bridgewater State University Foundation: 2% of income from government
  • Town Players of New Canaan Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Intempo Organization Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Connecticut Rise Network Inc: 2% of income from government
  • University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
  • Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
  • Women's Mentoring Network Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Orchestra Lumos Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Summer Theatre of New Canaan Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Bentley University: 1% of income from government
  • Silvermine Guild of Artists Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Norwalk Hospital Association: 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Nichols College: 0% of income from government
  • The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Hope for Haiti Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • New Canaan Mounted Troop Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Silver Hill Hospital Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
58get no government money at all
22report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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.

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 315 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. 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
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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