· Community foundation
Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc
To enrich the quality of life for residents of northwest Connecticut by inspiring local philanthropy, convening stakeholders in community welfare, strengthening the regional nonprofits network and fostering collaborative funding partnerships.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 103 grants below total $4,633,818 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $5,269,834 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $636,016 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $201k
- $10k–50k52 grants · $1.3M
- $50k–250k20 grants · $2.0M
- $250k+2 grants · $1.1M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NW Connecticut YMCA | $826,112 |
| Little Guild of St Francis | $282,040 |
| University of CT Foundation | $248,200 |
| Cornwall Conservation Trust | $164,000 |
| Last Post Cat Refuge VIL | $149,600 |
| Warner Theatre | $144,525 |
| Beardsley & Memorial Library | $133,800 |
| Connecticut state community c | $130,800 |
| Cancer Care Fund LitchHills | $130,000 |
| Music Mountain | $123,500 |
| Winchester Land Trust Inc | $100,200 |
| After School Arts Program INC | $94,155 |
| Greenwoods Scholarship Found | $74,800 |
| Friendly Hands Food Bank Inc | $73,250 |
| First Congredational Church | $68,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $4.4M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 1% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 +38% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
138 repeat relationships — 77 still active in FY2025, 61 since wound down; 23 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $362k 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
- NCNORTHWESTERN CT YMCA INC9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +55%
- SLSHARON LAND TRUST INC2× · 2017–2019 · $2.4M · revenue +118%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +79%
Funded once
- TSTHE SALISBURY ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $100k · revenue +121%
- WPWARREN PUBLIC LIBRARY INCone grant, 2020 · $67k · revenue -20% · 70% of their budget
- EVEFFECTIVE VENTURES FOUNDATION USA INCone grant, 2022 · $65k · revenue -69%
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
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 connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
The Farmington Land Trust Inc protects open space in the town of Farmington CT through the acquisition of open space, stewardship of acquired land, education of the public about the importance of open space and advocacy that ensures…
The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut, Inc. is a collaborative of business and community leaders dedicated to securing and enhancing the economic vitality of eastern Connecticut.
Primary purpose is to save and preserve buildings in New Haven, Connecticut through ongoing involvement with the city, Yale University and its neighborhoods, including educational activities such as walking tours of downtown New Haven and…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fishfriends in Service to Humanity of and the most unlike its peers is Great Mountain Forest Corporation. 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 35 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
178 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 178 of the 235 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NORTHWESTERN CT YMCA INC ↗
- Who funds SHARON LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION OF THE NORTHEAST INC ↗
- Who funds VIVISECTION INVESTIGATION LEAGUE ↗
- Who funds NORTHWESTERN COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION AND REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds The Cancer Care Fund of The Litchfield Hills Inc ↗
- Who funds BEARDSLEY & MEMORIAL LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital ↗
- Who funds Cornwall Conservation Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENWOODS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF ↗
- Who funds Winsted Area Child Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds WL GILBERT TRUST CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WE ADOPT GREYHOUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE INSTITUTE FOR AMERICAN INDIAN STUDIES ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS OF NORTHWEST HILLS LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Quahog Bay Conservation ↗
- Who funds Music Mountain Incorporated ↗
- Who funds GREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC ↗
- Who funds NORFOLK CONNECTICUT CHILDRENS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCCALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds KidsPlay Childrens Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds WINSTED HEALTH CENTER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EDADVANCE ↗
- Who funds CORNWALL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HARTFORD VILLAGE CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds EAST COAST ASSISTANCE DOGS INC ↗
- Who funds HOUSATONIC VALLEY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON 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: Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Torrington Savings Foundation · Northwest Ct Community Foundation Trust · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Foundation for Community Health Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Seherr-Thoss Charitable Trust · The Littman Family 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 Northwest Connecticut Community 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 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
- Crescendo Inc — 99% of income from government
- The Arc of Litchfield County Inc — 97% of income from government
- Community Mental Health Affiliates Inc — 96% of income from government
- Five Points Center for the Visual Arts Inc — 75% of income from government
- New Opportunities Inc — 70% of income from government
- Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities Inc — 68% of income from government
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- The Salisbury Association Inc — 54% of income from government
- Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc — 54% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% 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
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% 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
- Cornwall Conservation Trust Inc — 30% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Family Strides Inc — 28% of income from government
- Salisbury Housing Trust — 25% of income from government
- The Equus Effect Inc — 16% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc — 10% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
- Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc — 7% of income from government
- Greenagers Inc — 7% of income from government
- Civic Life Project Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Litchfield Performing Arts Inc — 4% of income from government
- The Charlotte Hungerford Hospital — 3% of income from government
- Friends of the Litchfield Community Greenway Inc — 3% of income from government
- Washington Friends of Music Inc — 3% of income from government
- Washington Art Association Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- Warren Public Library 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
- Bantam Cinema & Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Explorations Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pilobolus Inc — 1% of income from government
- Maria Seymour Brooker Memorial — 1% of income from government
- Tri-State Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Cornwall Library Association Inc — 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc — 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
- Music Mountain Incorporated — 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
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.