· Private foundation
Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k84 grants · $220k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $114k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEAM INC | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $21,000 |
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $18,500 |
| UNITED WAY OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT | $17,000 |
| HOUSATONIC HABITAT FOR HUMANITY | $12,500 |
| LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES | $10,000 |
| HORIZONS AT SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITIES | $7,500 |
| REAL FOOD CT | $7,000 |
| SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY'S DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER | $7,000 |
| NEWTOWN YOUTH & FAMILY SERVICES | $5,500 |
| WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC | $5,000 |
| BOY SCOUTS - CONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL | $5,000 |
| WCSU FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| JERICHO PARTNERSHIP | $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.
100 repeat relationships — 80 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 10 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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
- TITEAM INC9× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +67%
- UWUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC7× · 2017–2025 · $65k · revenue +35%
- TCThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc8× · 2018–2025 · $46k · revenue +25%
Funded once
- CICT INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITIESone grant, 2021 · $10k
- DHDANBURY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $10k
- NVNEWTOWN VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPSone grant, 2017 · $9k
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.
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
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…
The corporation is engaged in encouraging the cooperative efforts of neighborhood representatives, government and participating lending institutions in a combined effort to stem the decline and deterioration of the housing within the city…
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
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.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
New neighborhoods, inc.'s purpose is to develop, redevelop, own and manage quality housing for low and moderate income persons and families and to work to assist in the planning, re-planning, development and improvement of low and moderate…
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.
The united way of meriden and wallingford is a volunteer-driven organization that redirects human and financial resources to create lasting change in our communities by supporting residents to gain an education and training sufficient to…
Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hord Foundation 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 38 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) — 4% 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.
68 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. 68 of the 144 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 TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ↗
- Who funds Newtown Scholarship Association Inc ↗
- Who funds Housatonic Habitat for Humanity ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CONNECTICUT STATE UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds JERICHO PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR COMMUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY UNITED WAY INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds SEYMOUR OXFORD FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Hord Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds DANBURY YOUTH SERVICES ↗
- Who funds LATINO SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY ACTION AGENCY OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds AMOS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
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 · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Liberty Bank 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 Newtown Savings Bank Foundation 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.
- The Workplace Inc — 100% of income from government
- Team Inc — 84% of income from government
- The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc — 81% of income from government
- The Kennedy Collective Inc — 79% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Communities Inc — 57% of income from government
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Newtown Youth & Family Services Inc — 37% of income from government
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Village Inc — 32% of income from government
- Danbury Youth Services — 29% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
- Real Food Ct — 17% of income from government
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc — 17% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc — 13% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Sterling House Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Jericho Partnership Inc — 7% of income from government
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mcgivney Community Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- The New American Dream Foundation Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 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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