· Public charity
New Haven Green Fund Inc
To promote environmental quality and equity in the most environmentally distressed communities in the greater new haven area by providing grants and incentives to support initiatives that will reduce exposure to air, water, and land pollution and create a more sustainable future.
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.
The 8 grants below total $59,966 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $73,266 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $13,300 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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HUNNEBEE PROJECT | $9,966 |
| TOWERS AT TOWER LANE | $8,500 |
| ROOT LIFE LLC | $8,000 |
| EAST SHORE HEALTH DEPT | $8,000 |
| GATHER NEW HAVEN | $7,500 |
| SOLAR YOUTH | $7,000 |
| HAVENS HARVEST | $6,000 |
| COEEA FUND | $5,000 |
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.
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.
9 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 6 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, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k 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
- NHNEW HAVEN - URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE INC5× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +68%
- STSAVE THE SOUND5× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +53%
- GNGATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC)4× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- SCSOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +124%
- 1H10000 HAWKSone grant, 2023 · $10k
- CCCONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -85%
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 promote the sound use and management of natural resources. the district provides technical assistance and education in soil and water conservation and control.
To provide leadership and take initiatives for locally led conservation with the goal to protect soil, water and other natural resources of north central connecticut.
To inspire, support, and certify sustainability actions by connecticut towns and cities.
To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
The mission of connecticut resource conservation & development area, inc. ("ct rc&d") is to enrich local communities by cultivating agricultural viability, conserving natural resources, and growing economies.
To grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.
Save New Canaan Inc. (the Corporation) was formed to promote sustainable and appropriate development, as well as to advocate for the protection of open spaces, wetlands and other public trust goods, such as road, water and sewer…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
ROOTS is a community-engaged 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to promoting food security and agricultural education in K-12 programs. We make healthy food accessible and affordable to low-income families. We work with Connecticut farmers,…
Preservation of natural resources in the town of haddam, connecticut.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Ecology Project Inc and the most unlike its peers is Southwest Conservation District 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 32 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
19 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. 19 of the 30 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 NEW HAVEN - URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVENLEON SISTER PROJECT INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN FARMS INC ↗
- Who funds SOLAR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds HUNEEBEE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds RIVERS ALLIANCE OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL DATA COOPERATIVE FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE TOWERS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Mental Health Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds HAVENS HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds MASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY BICYCLE WORKSHOP 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: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Yale University · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Patagoniaorg · The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund Inc · Sustainable Ct Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · MFUND Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family 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 organization New Haven Green Fund 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.
- New Haven - Urban Resources Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
- Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology — 47% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Massaro Community Farm Inc — 27% of income from government
- Solar Youth Inc — 19% 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
- Huneebee Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% 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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