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Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc at a glance

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Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$253k
Granted FY2025still arriving
131
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
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, FY2022 to 2025.

Health$178kFood & Nutrition$150kArts & Culture$145kHuman Services$141kHousing & Shelter$113kRecreation & Sports$71kEducation$70kPublic Safety & Disaster$65kOther$0
02FY2025 · 131 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,600
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipient$5,250
Susan B Anthony Project$5,000
Habitat for Humanity of NWCT$5,000
KidsPlay Children's Museum Inc$5,000
Gifts of Love Inc$5,000
Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Litchfield County Inc$4,000
FISHFriends in Service to Humanity of Northwestern Connecticut$4,000
Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals$3,500
The Salvation Army$3,500
Healing Meals Foundation Corporation$3,100
Waterbury Baptist Ministries$3,000
Plumb Hill Playing Fields Inc$3,000
Litchfield Land Trust$3,000
Town of Winchester$3,000
The City of Torrington Sullivan Senior Center$3,000
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$824k · 100 repeat orgs$361k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +17% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.

100 repeat relationships: 81 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

100
83

Total granted

$824k
$273k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+3%

Still filing today

77%
46%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $88k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthHousing & ShelterOther
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

  • KC
    KidsPlay Childrens Museum Inc
    3× · 2023–2025 · $32k · revenue +12%
  • TM
    TALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER FOR STUDENT INVOLVEMENT INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $31k · revenue +3%
  • MF
    MCCALL FOUNDATION INC
    4× · 2022–2025 · $29k · revenue +187%

Funded once

  • SO
    SUPPORTERS OF WAMOGO AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE SWAGS
    one grant, 2023 · $25k
  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity of Northwestern Connecticut
    one grant, 2022 · $25k
  • VV
    VNA Valley Care Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -78%
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 Farmland Trust Inc

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

Food & Nutrition
2
Wethersfield Historical Society

The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
3
Wilton Land Conservation Trust

Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.

Environment
4
Winchester Historical Society
—
5
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…

—
6
East Lyme Land Trust Inc

Land preservation and conservation and protection of the water supply in East Lyme, CT

—
7
Newtown Housing for the Elderly Inc

Newtown housing for the elderly, inc., ("nhe"), is a non-profit organization established to provide low cost housing for those persons aged sixty-two or older and to those persons who are handicapped or disabled. nhe operates nunnawauk…

Housing & Shelter
8
Watertown Land Trust

Preservation of open space in watertown, ct; maintenance of owned and conserved properties and public education of enviromental issues.

—
9
Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut Inc

VNA of South Central Connecticut, Inc. is dedicated to enhancing the health, well being and quality of life at home and in the community is serves.

—
10
Avery Copp Museum

The Avery-Copp Museum celebrates, preserves, and documents the historic home, its collection, and the grounds belonging to the Avery and Copp families in Groton, Connecticut. Our purpose is to engage the public in learning about history of…

Arts & Culture
11
Hartford Retirement Village Inc

None

Human Services
12
Wolcott Volunteer Ambulance Assoc Inc

Volunteer ambulance association that provides emergency medical services and emergency response and transportation for sick and injured in wolcott, ct

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fishfriends in Service to Humanity of; the most unlike its peers is Simsbury Free Library. 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

149 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. 149 of the 233 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)
31
Early backer (in before they grew)
146/149
Grantees still filing
88/149
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Individual grant recipient: $62,250 · OtherIndividual grant recipientMCCALL FOUNDATION INC: $29,250 · OtherSUPPORTERS OF WAMOGO AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE SWAGS: $25,000 · OtherHabitat for Humanity of Northwestern Connecticut: $25,000 · OtherTALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER FOR STUDENT INVOLVEMENT INC: $31,000 · Other+130 more: $538,194 · Other+130 moreSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesSUSAN B ANTH…THE ARC OF THE FARMINGTON VALLEY INC: $18,500 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF T…COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC: $12,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY KI…GIFTS OF LOVE INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesGIFTS OF LOV…HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesHELPING HAND…CREATE INDEPENDENCE INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,500 · Human ServicesSPIRIT HORSE THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER: $5,000 · Human ServicesCHORE SERVICE INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesCARING FOR BETHLEHEM INC: $4,500 · Human ServicesFalls Village Daycare Center Inc: $4,500 · Human Services+8 more: $20,150 · Human Services+8 moreKidsPlay Childrens Museum Inc: $32,000 · Arts & CultureHILL-STEAD MUSEUM: $14,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $6,900 · Arts & CultureLITCHFIELD PERFORMING ARTS INC: $6,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $5,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MUSEUM TORT LAW INC: $4,900 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $3,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTICUT DEMOCRACY CENTER INC: $3,000 · Arts & Culture+5 more: $7,600 · Arts & CultureFOCUS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC: $18,500 · EducationEAST COAST ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $10,000 · EducationEXPLORATIONS INC: $8,200 · EducationFARMINGTON VILLAGE GREEN & LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 · EducationOLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC: $5,000 · EducationSOAR EDUCATIONAL ENRICHMENT INC: $4,500 · EducationTRUSTEES OF WESTMINSTER SCHOOL INC: $3,000 · Education+4 more: $7,000 · EducationHEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $29,100 · Food & NutritionFRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC: $17,500 · Food & NutritionFriend to Friend Inc: $12,100 · Food & NutritionTHRIVE FARM INC: $4,000 · Food & NutritionHolcomb Farm Inc: $16,500 · EnvironmentLITCHFIELD LAND TRUST INC: $14,000 · EnvironmentWINCHESTER LAND TRUST INC: $9,100 · EnvironmentFarmington Land Trust: $6,250 · EnvironmentNorthwest Conservation District Inc: $4,615 · EnvironmentSTEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC: $3,500 · EnvironmentATON FOREST INC: $2,000 · EnvironmentRIVERS ALLIANCE OF CONNECTICUT INC: $2,000 · Environment+1 more: $1,500 · EnvironmentREBUILDING TOGETHER LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $17,000 · Housing & ShelterFALLS VILLAGE HOUSING TRUST INC: $9,000 · Housing & ShelterFISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF: $6,471 · Housing & ShelterSALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE INC: $6,000 · Housing & ShelterGOSHEN HOUSING TRUST INC: $4,000 · Housing & ShelterSALISBURY HOUSING TRUST: $2,500 · Housing & ShelterBARKHAMSTED HOUSING TRUST INC: $2,000 · Housing & Shelter+2 more: $2,500 · Housing & Shelter
Other$710,694Human Services$123,650Arts & Culture$82,400Education$63,700Food & Nutrition$62,700Environment$59,465Housing & Shelter$49,471

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetKidsPlay Childrens Museum Inc: $32,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTALCOTT MOUNTAIN SCIENCE CENTER FOR STUDENT INVOLVEMENT INC: $31,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMCCALL FOUNDATION INC: $29,250 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION: $29,100 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $25,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPRIME TIME HOUSE INC: $20,188 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetVNA Valley Care Inc: $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC: $19,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetFOCUS CENTER FOR AUTISM INC: $18,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ARC OF THE FARMINGTON VALLEY INC: $18,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC: $17,500 over 3y, 2.8% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $17,000 over 4y, 4.1% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHolcomb Farm Inc: $16,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCAMP MOHAWK INCORPORATED: $15,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNEW HARTFORD VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetHILL-STEAD MUSEUM: $14,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLITCHFIELD LAND TRUST INC: $14,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetFriend to Friend Inc: $12,100 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC: $12,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetLITCHFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $10,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetGIFTS OF LOVE INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEAST COAST ASSISTANCE DOGS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWINCHESTER LAND TRUST INC: $9,100 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetFALLS VILLAGE HOUSING TRUST INC: $9,000 over 3y, 7.5% of budgetCanaan Child Care Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLITCHFIELD AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $8,207 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetEXPLORATIONS INC: $8,200 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $8,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY GREENWAY INC: $7,500 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetFARMINGTON VILLAGE GREEN & LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $6,900 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGirl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: $6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMARIA SEYMOUR BROOKER MEMORIAL: $6,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF: $6,471 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFarmington Land Trust: $6,250 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetSALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLITCHFIELD PERFORMING ARTS INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE EQUUS EFFECT INC: $6,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGirls on the Run Greater Connecticut: $6,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetBurlington Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $5,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetCOVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH CONNECTICUT INC: $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROBERT C GEER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERTOWN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetBEARDSLEY & MEMORIAL LIBRARY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNew Horizons Living Center Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S MUSEUM INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% 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.

Northwest Connecticut…The Connecticut Commu…Hartford Foundation f…Thomaston Savings Ban…Torrington Savings Fo…American Savings Foun…Eversource Energy Fou…Union Savings Bank Fo…Connecticut Humanitie…Ion Bank Foundation I…Farmington Bank Commu…Seherr-Thoss Charitab…
Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation IncCT128.5× affinity63 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Torrington Savings Foundation · American Savings Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Seherr-Thoss Charitable Trust

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

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 540%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • The Housing Collective Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Barkhamsted Housing Trust Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Winsted Health Center Foundation Inc: 100% of income from government
  • The Arc of the Farmington Valley Inc: 86% of income from government
  • Mental Health Connecticut Inc: 82% of income from government
  • The Police Activities League of Hartford Incorporated: 70% of income from government
  • Salisbury Housing Committee Inc: 70% of income from government
  • Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities Inc: 68% of income from government
  • The Wheels Program of Greater New Milford Inc: 65% of income from government
  • Focus Center for Autism Inc: 63% of income from government
  • The Bridge Family Center Inc: 61% of income from government
  • Prime Time House Inc: 50% of income from government
  • Mccall Foundation Inc: 41% of income from government
  • Edadvance: 41% of income from government
  • Community Health & Wellness Center of Greater Torrington Inc: 39% of income from government
  • Fishfriends in Service to Humanity of: 39% of income from government
  • Covenant to Care for Children Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Northwest Connecticut Arts Council Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Housatonic Youth Service Bureau Inc: 33% of income from government
  • Winsted Area Child Care Center Inc: 32% of income from government
  • Northwest Conservation District Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Salisbury Housing Trust: 25% of income from government
  • Hands On Hartford Inc: 20% of income from government
  • Steep Rock Association Inc: 19% of income from government
  • The Equus Effect Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Arts for Learning Connecticut: 14% of income from government
  • Talcott Mountain Science Center for Student Involvement Inc: 13% of income from government
  • Nafi Connecticut Inc: 11% of income from government
  • Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Hill-Stead Museum: 7% of income from government
  • Theatre Guild of Simsbury Ltd: 4% of income from government
  • Litchfield Performing Arts Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Litchfield Historical Society: 3% of income from government
  • Friends of the Litchfield Community Greenway Inc: 3% of income from government
  • Holcomb Farm Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Create Independence Inc: 2% of income from government
  • American Mural Project Inc: 1% of income from government
  • After School Arts Program Inc: 1% of income from government
  • East Litchfield Volunteer Fire Co Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Explorations Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Maria Seymour Brooker Memorial: 1% of income from government
  • New Horizons Living Center Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Healing Meals Foundation Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Little Britches Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Susan B Anthony Project Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Litchfield County Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
54get no government money at all
41report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
12rely 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 233 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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