· Public charity
New Haven Promise Inc
New Haven Promise works to build a culture in the public schools in which students aspire to attend and graduate from college; to provide financial incentives and support for those students; and to facilitate their return to live, work and serve in the greater New Haven community.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k1 grant · $7k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $171k
- $50k–250k11 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+2 grants · $3.5M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| University of Connecticut | $2,774,398 |
| Southern Connecticut State University | $707,816 |
| University of New Haven | $222,672 |
| Yale University | $131,875 |
| Hampton University | $112,500 |
| Central Connecticut State University | $106,111 |
| Eastern Connecticut State University | $98,065 |
| CT State - Gateway Community College | $89,556 |
| Quinnipiac University | $80,286 |
| Howard University | $80,000 |
| Morgan State University | $77,500 |
| Albertus Magnus College | $67,188 |
| North Carolina A&T State University | $60,000 |
| Western Connecticut State University | $41,269 |
| Spelman College | $40,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY21–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 3% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +24% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 1 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- UOUniversity of New Haven5× · 2021–2025 · $723k · revenue +24%
- QUQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY5× · 2021–2025 · $261k · revenue +24%
- AMALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE5× · 2021–2025 · $251k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- MCMOREHOUSE COLLEGEone grant, 2025 · $20k · revenue 0%
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'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…
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
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…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
Rooted in the liberal arts & sciences & lutheran expression of the christian faith, & is committed to offering a challenging education that develops qualities of mind, spirit, & body necessary for a rewarding life of leadership & service…
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Coker university is a student-centered, comprehensive university. it is dedicated to providing every student an academic curriculum based upon a uniformly excellent liberal arts core that enhances the structured development of key personal…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Hilbert college is an independent institution of higher learning that embraces its catholic franciscan heritage and values. students from diverse backgrounds are educated in liberal arts and professional programs to become informed…
As a diverse community of learners, we cultivate integrity, curiosity, connection and resilience.
The mission of the george washington university (gw) is to educate individuals in liberal arts, languages, sciences, learned professions, and other courses and subjects of study, and to conduct scholarly research and publish the findings…
How this is measured
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 University of New Haven ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ALBERTUS MAGNUS COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAMPTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE HOWARD UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO INVESTMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
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: Wheeler Clinic Inc · Davis Educational Foundation · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · National Collegiate Athletic Association · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization New Haven Promise Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from New Haven Promise Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Yale University: 9% of income from government
- University of New Haven: 1% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Albertus Magnus College: 1% of income from government
- The Morgan State University Foundation Inc: 1% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University: 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
- Connecticut College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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