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Northwest Ct Community Foundation Trust

To enhance quality of life for citizens in its service area by identifying and responding to community needs by providing financial assistance in the form of scholarships and grants to 501(c)(3) organizations.

$349k
Granted FY2025still arriving
9
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$18k
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 2025.

Philanthropy$677kArts & Culture$177kHuman Services$90kHealth$87kFood & Nutrition$72kEducation$61kHousing & Shelter$43kReligion$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 9 grants below total $98,800, the rows itemized in this filing. The $348,881 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $250,081 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $20k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $79k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$6.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Torrington YS Bureau$17,850
GREENWOODS COUNSELING REF$14,000
KidsPlay Childrens Museum$13,500
Friendly Hands Food Bank$13,500
Housatonic Childcare Center$10,000
Litchfield Montessori School$10,000
CT Council for Philanthropy$7,500
Great Mountain Forest$6,350
MCCALL FOUNDATION$6,100
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $118k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 27% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 9%Family & Childrens Aid: $8k → 9%CT Coalition to End Homeless: $10k → 11%Covenant to Care for Children: $8k → 11%St Johns Foundation: $8k → 9%Housatonic Childcare Center: $10k → 9%Summit Adaptive Sports Inc: $6k → 11%Torrington YS Bureau: $18k → 9%COMMUNITY KITCHEN TORRINGTON: $13k → 9%LARC: $12k → 9%COMMUNITY KITCHEN TORRINGTON: $8k → 9%NW CT YMCA: $7k → 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $6k → 9%Susan B Anthony Project: $6k → 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$367k · 16 repeat orgs$278k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +100% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.

16 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
25

Total granted

$367k
$251k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+100%
+10%

Still filing today

88%
68%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
Human ServicesArts & CultureHealthEducationPhilanthropyFood & NutritionOther
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
    5× · 2017–2025 · $61k · revenue +86%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY
    5× · 2020–2025 · $45k · revenue +124%
  • FH
    FRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $29k · revenue +203%

Funded once

  • NC
    NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC
    one grant, 2019 · $30k · revenue +10%
  • CH
    COMMUNITY HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER OF GREATER TORRINGTON INC
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +2%
  • E
    EDADVANCEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $20k · revenue +84%
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
The Community Action Agency of Western Connecticut Inc

The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…

Community Improvement
3
Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals
4
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…

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5
Connecticut Citizen Action Group Inc

We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.

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6
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
7
Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities Inc

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…

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8
Connecticut Association for Community Action Inc

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.

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9
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
10
Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut Inc

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.

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11
Western Connecticut Area Agency On Aging Inc

The western connecticut area agency on aging, inc. (wcaaa) develops, manages and provides comprehensive services through person centered planning for seniors, caregivers and individuals with disabilities in order to maintain their…

Human Services
12
Community Health Services Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is After School Arts Program Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 45 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
26/36
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $631,533 · PhilanthropyNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $45,000 · PhilanthropyCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY+1 more: $6,350 · PhilanthropyKidsPlay Childrens Museum Inc: $60,500 · Arts & CultureKidsPlay Chil…NUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureNUTMEG CONSER…AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $25,200 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MURA…LITCHFIELD PERFORMING ARTS INC: $14,500 · Arts & CultureLITCHFIELD PE…AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC: $14,400 · Arts & CultureAFTER SCHOOL …TORRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 · Arts & CultureEDADVANCE: $20,000 · OtherEDADVANCE1ST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF BARKHAMSTED: $18,000 · Other1ST CONGREGATI…Winchester Youth Serv Bureau: $17,150 · OtherWinchester You…Torrington Public Schools: $14,050 · OtherTorrington Pub…MCCALL FOUNDATION INC: $13,550 · OtherMCCALL FOUNDAT…CHILDREN IN PLACEMENT INC: $7,500 · OtherBakerville Community Nursery: $6,300 · OtherTORRINGTON POLICE ACT LEAGUE: $6,200 · OtherTown of Warren: $6,150 · OtherTown of Colebrook: $6,000 · OtherMusic Mountain Incorporated: $6,000 · OtherLITCHFIELD ARTS COUNCIL: $5,500 · OtherREBUILDING TOGETHER LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $15,500 · OtherREBUILDING TOG…DRAKEVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $10,000 · OtherDRAKEVILLE VOL…JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $6,208 · Other+1 more: $5,300 · OtherNORTHWESTERN CT YMCA INC: $24,600 · Human ServicesNORTHWESTE…COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC: $20,350 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY …THE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $12,350 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF…SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $11,225 · Human ServicesSUSAN B AN…CONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTICU…HOUSATONIC CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesHOUSATONIC…COVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT T…FAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesFAMILY AND…ST JOHNS FOUNDATION INC: $7,700 · Human ServicesST JOHNS F…SUMMIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $6,000 · Human ServicesGREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC: $27,500 · HealthCOMMUNITY HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER OF GREATER TORRINGTON INC: $20,250 · HealthWASHINGTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $7,500 · HealthOLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC: $16,650 · EducationCONNECTICUT ACADEMY FOR THE ARTS INC: $15,000 · EducationLitchfield Montessori School Inc: $10,000 · EducationWARREN PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $7,000 · EducationFRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC: $29,000 · Food & NutritionFOOD RESCUE US INC: $17,125 · Food & Nutrition
Philanthropy$682,883Arts & Culture$151,600Other$163,408Human Services$118,225Health$65,250Education$48,650Food & Nutrition$46,125

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 budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $631,533 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetKidsPlay Childrens Museum Inc: $60,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY: $45,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetNUTMEG CONSERVATORY FOR THE ARTS INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetFRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC: $29,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetGREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC: $27,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $25,200 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetNORTHWESTERN CT YMCA INC: $24,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC: $20,350 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY HEALTH & WELLNESS CENTER OF GREATER TORRINGTON INC: $20,250 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD RESCUE US INC: $17,125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOLIVER WOLCOTT LIBRARY INC: $16,650 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $15,500 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetLITCHFIELD PERFORMING ARTS INC: $14,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC: $14,400 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMCCALL FOUNDATION INC: $13,550 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $12,350 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $11,225 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT COALITION TO END HOMELESSNESS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWASHINGTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHOUSATONIC CHILD CARE CENTER INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetLitchfield Montessori School Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDRAKEVILLE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetCOVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC: $8,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFAMILY AND CHILDREN'S AID INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHNS FOUNDATION INC: $7,700 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetCHILDREN IN PLACEMENT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetVOLUNTEERS IN MEDICINE-BERKSHIRES INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWARREN PUBLIC LIBRARY INC: $7,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetTORRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $7,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGreat Mountain Forest Corporation: $6,350 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA: $6,208 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Mountain Incorporated: $6,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSUMMIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 5.1% 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…Northwest Community B…Torrington Savings Fo…Union Savings Bank Fo…Thomaston Savings Ban…Berkshire Taconic Com…American Savings Foun…The Mae Casali Bonvic…Connecticut Humanitie…Francis J and Louisa …Arbella Insurance Fou…
Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation IncCT61.4× affinity27 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 · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Torrington Savings Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · The Mae Casali Bonvicini Charitable Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Francis J and Louisa J Oneglia Foundation Inc · Arbella Insurance 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 Northwest Ct Community Foundation Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Northwest Ct Community Foundation Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 24%
  • The Arc of Litchfield County Inc: 97% of income from government
  • Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc: 54% of income from government
  • Children in Placement Inc: 47% 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
  • Family and Children's Aid Inc: 36% of income from government
  • Covenant to Care for Children Inc: 35% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy: 24% of income from government
  • Volunteers in Medicine-Berkshires Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Litchfield Performing Arts Inc: 4% 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
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely 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 45 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 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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