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New Haven Green Fund Inc at a glance

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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.

$73k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Environment$173kInternational$34kFood & Nutrition$32kCommunity Improvement$31kAnimals$23kEmployment$20kEducation$19kRecreation & Sports$18kOther$0
02FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 8 grants below total $59,966, the rows itemized in this filing. The $73,266 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $13,300 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.
$8,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HUNNEBEE PROJECT$9,966
TOWERS AT TOWER LANE$8,500
EAST SHORE HEALTH DEPT$8,000
ROOT LIFE LLC$8,000
GATHER NEW HAVEN$7,500
SOLAR YOUTH$7,000
HAVENS HARVEST$6,000
COEEA FUND$5,000
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.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.

60%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$244k · 9 repeat orgs$165k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

$244k
$119k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+54%

Still filing today

89%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 24% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $45k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentEducationCommunity ImprovementInternationalFood & NutritionHuman ServicesOther
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

  • NH
    NEW HAVEN - URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE INC
    5× · 2017–2023 · $46k · revenue +68%
  • ST
    SAVE THE SOUND
    5× · 2017–2022 · $38k · revenue +93%
  • GN
    GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC)
    4× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • SC
    SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +124%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -85%
  • 1H
    10000 HAWKS
    one grant, 2023 · $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.

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
Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District Inc

To promote the sound use and management of natural resources. the district provides technical assistance and education in soil and water conservation and control.

Environment
2
North Central Conservation District Inc

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.

Environment
3
Sustainable Ct Inc

To inspire, support, and certify sustainability actions by connecticut towns and cities.

Education
4
Norwalk River Watershed Association Inc

To protect water quality and wildlife habitat in the seven-town Norwalk River Watershed

Environment
5
Connecticut Citizen Action Group Inc

We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.

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6
Connecticut Resource Conservation & Dev Area Inc

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.

Environment
7
New Haven Works Inc

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.

Education
8
Save New Canaan Inc

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…

Environment
9
Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition
10
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

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…

—
11
New Britain Roots Inc

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,…

Food & Nutrition
12
Haddam Land Trust Inc

Preservation of natural resources in the town of haddam, connecticut.

Environment
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Ecology Project Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

19 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. 19 of the 30 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
14/19
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SAVE THE SOUND: $38,249 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUNDGATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC): $37,300 · EnvironmentGATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW H…CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $15,405 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INCSOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentSOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INCHUNEEBEE PROJECT INC: $9,966 · EnvironmentHUNEEBEE PROJECT INCRIVERS ALLIANCE OF CONNECTICUT INC: $9,600 · EnvironmentRIVERS ALLIANCE OF CONNECTICUT INCHAVENS HARVEST INC: $6,000 · EnvironmentNEW HAVEN FARMS INC: $20,000 · OtherNEW HAVEN FARMS INC10000 HAWKS: $10,000 · Other10000 HAWKSSOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY: $9,980 · OtherSOUTHERN CT STATE UNIVERSITYCPEN-COMMUNITY PLACEMAKING ENGAGEMENT NETWORK: $9,800 · OtherCPEN-COMMUNITY PLACEMAKING ENGAGEM…THE TOWERS FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 · OtherTHE TOWERS FOUNDATION INCBRADLEY STREET BICYCLE CO OP: $8,340 · OtherBRADLEY STREET BICYCLE CO OPELM CITY CYCLING INC: $8,000 · OtherELM CITY CYCLING INCEAST SHORE DISTRICT HEALTH: $8,000 · OtherEAST SHORE DISTRICT HEALTHROOT LIFE LLC: $8,000 · OtherROOT LIFE LLCMENUNKATUCK AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $7,783 · OtherMENUNKATUCK AUDUBON SOCIETY INC2018 GRANTS PAID IN 2019: $6,000 · OtherCOEEA FUND INC: $5,000 · OtherMASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC: $5,500 · OtherCONNECTICUT COMMUNITY BICYCLE WORKSHOP INC: $4,175 · Other+1 more: $4,048 · OtherNEW HAVEN - URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE INC: $45,500 · Community ImprovementNEW HAVEN - URB…REGIONAL DATA COOPERATIVE FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $9,000 · Community ImprovementREGIONAL DATA C…SOLAR YOUTH INC: $17,000 · EducationSOLAR YOU…CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 · EducationCONNECTIC…SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,800 · EducationSOUTHERN …NEW HAVENLEON SISTER PROJECT INCORPORATED: $34,250 · InternationalNEW HAVEN…NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $27,000 · Food & NutritionConnecticut Mental Health Center Foundation Inc: $8,000 · Health
Environment$126,520Other$123,126Community Improvement$54,500Education$35,800International$34,250Food & Nutrition$27,000Health$8,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNEW HAVEN - URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE INC: $45,500 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetSAVE THE SOUND: $38,249 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC): $37,300 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNEW HAVENLEON SISTER PROJECT INCORPORATED: $34,250 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetNEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HAVEN FARMS INC: $20,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSOLAR YOUTH INC: $17,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC: $15,405 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOUTHWEST CONSERVATION DISTRICT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNEEBEE PROJECT INC: $9,966 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetRIVERS ALLIANCE OF CONNECTICUT INC: $9,600 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetREGIONAL DATA COOPERATIVE FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSOUTHERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $8,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TOWERS FOUNDATION INC: $8,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetConnecticut Mental Health Center Foundation Inc: $8,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetHAVENS HARVEST INC: $6,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC: $5,500 over 1y, 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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Newalliance Foundatio…Yale UniversityUnited Way of Greater…PatagoniaorgThe Claire C Bennitt …Sustainable Ct IncThe Chicago Community…MFUND IncWilliam Caspar Graust…National Fish and Wil…Joe & Cindy Goldberg …
The Community Foundation for Greater New HavenCT31.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Haven Green Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Haven Green Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to New Haven Green Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 30 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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