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Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$149k
Granted FY2025still arriving
14
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$50k
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 2024.

Education$1.2MArts & Culture$161kPhilanthropy$63kYouth Development$50kEnvironment$47kHealth$25kHuman Services$14kPublic Benefit$10kOther$0
02FY2025 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k11 grants · $44k
  • $10k–50k2 grants · $55k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$7,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$625k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED$50,000
THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC$30,000
HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED$25,000
ELM CITY INTERNATIONALS EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS THROUG$7,000
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$7,000
THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC$7,000
LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP$7,000
EARTHPLACE THE NATURE DISCOVERY CENTER INC$5,000
SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY$3,000
EARTHPLACE THE NATURE DISCOVERY CENTER INC$2,500
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC$2,000
CHANGE SUMMER INC$2,000
TRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE$1,000
BOWDOIN COLLEGE$250
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.

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Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 7%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $2k → 12%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $2k → 12%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $500 → 12%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $500 → 12%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT INC: $5k → 9%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT INC: $3k → 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.
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.6M · 40 repeat orgs$34k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +21% for those funded once.

40 repeat relationships: 10 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
16

Total granted

$1.6M
$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+21%

Still filing today

88%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationArts & CultureHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther
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

  • TS
    THE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $214k · revenue +65%
  • AF
    ACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $177k · revenue +20%
  • TO
    TRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK
    8× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • HL
    HASKINS LABORATORIES INC
    one grant, 2020 · $18k · revenue -82%
  • GT
    Give to the World
    one grant, 2018 · $4k · revenue -19%
  • EC
    ELM CITY COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC
    one grant, 2021 · $2k · revenue +5%
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
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
The Bridge Academy Inc

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…

Education
3
Cold Spring School Inc

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.

Education
4
Stamford Charter School for Excellence

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,…

Education
5
University of Hartford

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.

Education
6
Fairfield University

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.

Education
7
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
8
Quinnipiac University

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…

Education
9
King School Inc

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…

Education
10
President and Trustees of Bates College

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…

Education
11
South Kent School Corporation

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…

Education
12
Brunswick School Inc

Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Southport School Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

52 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. 52 of the 60 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
50/52
Grantees still filing
36/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $662,317 · EducationHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATEDACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $176,500 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INCTRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: $56,000 · EducationLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $47,500 · Education+16 more: $181,875 · Education+16 moreTHE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC: $214,000 · OtherTHE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INCSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY - WSHU PUBLIC RADIO: $61,125 · OtherSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY …HASKINS LABORATORIES INC: $18,000 · Other+20 more: $78,475 · Other+20 moreTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $70,750 · Arts & CultureKids Empowered by Your Support Inc: $19,200 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $9,500 · Arts & CultureSummer Stars Foundation Inc: $9,500 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $2,550 · Arts & CultureTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: $30,000 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 · PhilanthropyHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $5,000 · PhilanthropyBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC: $3,650 · PhilanthropyEARTHPLACE INC: $53,500 · EnvironmentSocial Impact Partners Inc: $7,500 · Human ServicesFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesGive to the World: $4,000 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1,500 · International
Education$1,124,192Other$371,600Arts & Culture$111,500Philanthropy$66,150Environment$53,500Human Services$12,500International$5,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $662,317 over 9y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SOUTHPORT SCHOOL INC: $214,000 over 9y, 0.5% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $176,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $70,750 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTRUSTEES OF UNION COLLEGE IN THE TOWN OF SCHENECTADY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK: $56,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEARTHPLACE INC: $53,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetLEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC: $47,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetELM CITY INTERNATIONALS EDUCATIONAL SUCCESS THROUGH SOCCER: $33,250 over 8y, 2.9% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: $30,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $28,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetKids Empowered by Your Support Inc: $19,200 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetBowdoin College: $18,250 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC: $18,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHASKINS LABORATORIES INC: $18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSMART KIDS WITH LEARNING DISABILITIES INC: $11,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetGrumman Hill Montessori Association Inc: $10,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT COALITION FOR ACHIEVEMENT NOW INC: $10,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $9,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSummer Stars Foundation Inc: $9,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSCHOOL VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $8,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetSocial Impact Partners Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBROADCASTERS FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $7,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetITHACA COLLEGE: $7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIBRARY OF AMERICAN BROADCASTING FOUNDATION: $6,825 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $6,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC: $5,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSHEPHERDS INC: $5,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHANGE SUMMER INC: $5,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC: $5,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATORS FOR EXCELLENCE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGive to the World: $4,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC: $3,650 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFORMAN SCHOOL INC: $2,950 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetELM CITY COLLEGE PREPARATORY INC: $2,075 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATALYST CT INC: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC: $1,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYale University: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD YOUTH SCHOLARS INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLACK RIVER GOOD NEIGHBOR SERVICES INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMITCHELL COLLEGE: $800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

Fairfield County's Co…Newalliance Foundatio…Seedlings FoundationWilliam Caspar Graust…The Community Foundat…The Near and Far Asso…Hartford Foundation f…Peoples United Commun…Yale UniversityThe Scripps Family Fu…Young Mens Christian …Apple Pickers Foundat…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT39.8× affinity18 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 · 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

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
12report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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 60 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-PF 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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