· Private foundation
NewCity Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k17 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $30,000 |
| THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC | $30,000 |
| HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $20,000 |
| ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC | $15,000 |
| EARTHPLACE THE NATURE DISCOVERY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| EARTHPLACE THE NATURE DISCOVERY CENTER INC | $10,000 |
| THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC | $5,000 |
| HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP | $5,000 |
| ELM CITY INTERNATIONALS EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS THROUG | $4,000 |
| THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC | $3,000 |
| ELM CITY INTERNATIONALS EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS THROUG | $2,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–23, $13k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.
40 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 26 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 FY2024, 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
- TSTHE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $177k · revenue +65%
- AFACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC8× · 2017–2024 · $175k · revenue +20%
- TOTRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK7× · 2017–2023 · $55k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- HLHASKINS LABORATORIES INCone grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue -82%
- GTGive to the Worldone grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -19%
- ECELM CITY COLLEGE PREPARATORY INCone grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +5%
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
The stamford charter school for excellence prepares young people in stamford, connecticut to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social,…
Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.
To build the university of the future with a strategy propelling us from our storied past toward an ambitious, inclusive & innovative future by preparing graduates as enlightened global citizens equipped for the challenges & opportunities…
King school prepares students to thrive in a rapidly changing world. our students are immersed in an engaging and innovative curriculum anchored in an inquiry-based approach that fosters curiosity, intellectual growth, and character…
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…
South kent school is an independent, college-preparatory school for boys. since its founding, south kent has maintained ties with the episcopal church. three principles define the school: simplicity of life, self-reliance, and directness…
An independent, nonprofit school serving the lower fairfield county area of connecticut for children ages three to eight, and providing an environment that fosters in children the joy of learning through the use of innovative materials and…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Southport School Inc and the most unlike its peers is Give to the World. 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 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 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.
52 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. 52 of the 60 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 HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds EARTHPLACE INC ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ELM CITY INTERNATIONALS EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS THROUGH SOCCER ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ↗
- Who funds Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds HASKINS LABORATORIES INC ↗
- Who funds FAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds SMART KIDS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Grumman Hill Montessori Association Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEMENT NOW INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Summer Stars Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds Social Impact Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds ITHACA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds BROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds LIBRARY OF AMERICAN BROADCASTING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds Give to the World ↗
- Who funds EDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CHANGE SUMMER 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Near and Far Association Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Peoples United Community Foundation · Yale University · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · Apple Pickers Foundation
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 NewCity Foundation 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.
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Catalyst Ct Inc — 37% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Friends Center for Children Inc — 21% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc — 17% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Mitchell College — 2% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- Achievement First Inc — 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.