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Olga Sipolin Children's Fund

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$53k
Granted FY2026still arriving
12
Grants FY2026still arriving
1
States reached
$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
0199% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2026.

Human Services$233kHousing & Shelter$61kHealth$45kYouth Development$39kEducation$26kFood & Nutrition$21kRecreation & Sports$10kReligion$8kOther$0
02FY2026 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$5,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNELL SCOTT HILL HEALTH CORP$5,000
KIDS IN CRISIS$5,000
MY SISTER'S PLACE INC$5,000
KLINGBERG FAMILY CENTERS INC$5,000
HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC$5,000
NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE$5,000
THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE$4,500
COVENANT TO CARE INC$4,000
SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC$4,000
END HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC$4,000
CAMP COURANT INCORPORATED$3,500
TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION$3,000
02The need
03

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$334k · 26 repeat orgs$115k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2026, 19 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2026 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
22

Total granted

$334k
$94k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+9%

Still filing today

92%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2026, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’19’20’21’22’23’24’25’26
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthYouth DevelopmentEducationCommunity ImprovementOther

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

  • PC
    PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC
    6× · 2019–2025 · $35k · revenue +30%
  • KI
    KIDS IN CRISIS INC
    4× · 2019–2026 · $18k · revenue +57%
  • NA
    NETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC
    3× · 2019–2026 · $18k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • HC
    HSC Community Services Inc
    one grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -46%
  • HI
    HARC INC
    one grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%
  • FS
    Friendship Service Center Inc
    one grant, 2025 · $5k · revenue 0%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
Child Advocates of Connecticut Inc

Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.

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2
Connecticut Court Appointed Special Advocates Inc

Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.

Crime & Legal
3
Family and Children's Aid Inc

Fca is a community-based behavioral health center that offers innovation, responsive and traditional mental health care and services for children, adolescents, adults and their families.

Human Services
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
Children in Placement Inc

The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the connecticut foster care system.

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6
Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services
7
Domestic Violence Crisis Center

DVCC's role is to help those experiencing any level of domestic violence and assist them in building a safer environment for the well-being of themselves and their families. Our services include housing and financial advocacy, legal…

Human Services
8
Mental Health Connecticut Inc

Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.

Health
9
Connecticut Counseling Centers Inc

To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.

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10
United Services Inc

United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…

Human Services
11
Transition House Inc

Transition house is a human services agency dedicated to preventing and ending domestic violence. the agency provides a continuum of housing resources and holistic support for survivors of violence and their children, as well as prevention…

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12
Jewish Family Service of Greater New Hav

Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…

Human Services

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Community and Family Servicesinc and the most unlike its peers is Steps 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDisease-Specific Research F…Affordable Housing ProvidersFaith-Based Community Servi…Professional Trade Associat…Senior Care & Health Servic…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 41 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr18%8%10–20yr19%19%20–35yr13%51%35–55yr20%19%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%3%5–10yr18%6%10–20yr19%20%20–35yr13%56%35–55yr20%16%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/43
the rest of the field
10%
1,336/13,334

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.

04the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 53 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/43
Grantees still filing
33/43
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Klingberg Family Centers Inc — $35,000 · OtherKlingberg Family Centers IncTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $20,000 · OtherTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRIDGEPORT INCKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $18,000 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INCYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC — $15,000 · OtherYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INCHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC — $15,000 · OtherHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INCMY SISTERS' PLACE INC — $13,000 · OtherMY SISTERS' PLACE INCThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc — $12,500 · OtherThe Center For Empowerment And Education IncTHE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC — $10,000 · OtherWATERBURY YOUTH SERVICES INC — $9,500 · OtherUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC — $7,700 · Other+17 more — $68,900 · Other+17 morePRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC — $35,000 · Human ServicesPRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INCNETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC — $17,500 · Human ServicesNETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE…SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INCBARE NECESSITIES INC — $10,000 · Human ServicesBARE NECESSITIES INCMadonna Place Inc — $10,000 · Human ServicesMadonna Place IncCOVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC — $7,000 · Human ServicesCOVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN …HARC INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesSTEPS Inc — $5,000 · Human ServicesGIFTS OF LOVE INC — $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $4,500 · Human Services+2 more — $6,500 · Human Services+2 moreMALTA HOUSE INC — $15,000 · Housing & ShelterMALTA HOUSE…ALWAYS HOME INC — $14,500 · Housing & ShelterALWAYS HOME…MERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION — $8,000 · Housing & ShelterMERCY HOUSI…Friendship Service Center Inc — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterFriendship …COLUMBUS HOUSE INC — $5,000 · Housing & ShelterCOLUMBUS HO…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC — $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentMANCHESTER AREA CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES INC — $7,500 · Youth DevelopmentHSC Community Services Inc — $10,000 · HealthCORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATION — $5,000 · HealthTHE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC — $3,000 · HealthNETWORK INC — $10,000 · Community ImprovementMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $6,000 · EducationEND HUNGER CONNECTICUT INC — $4,000 · Public Safety & Disaster
Other$224,600Human Services$120,500Housing & Shelter$47,500Youth Development$18,500Health$18,000Community Improvement$10,000Education$6,000Public Safety & Disaster$4,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC — $35,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $18,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNETWORK AGAINST DOMESTIC ABUSE INC — $17,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetALWAYS HOME INC — $14,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMY SISTERS' PLACE INC — $13,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc — $12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC — $11,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC — $10,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHSC Community Services Inc — $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetNETWORK INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARE NECESSITIES INC — $10,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetTHE DIAPER BANK OF CONNECTICUT INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMadonna Place Inc — $10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWATERBURY YOUTH SERVICES INC — $9,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetMERCY HOUSING & SHELTER CORPORATION — $8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC — $7,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMANCHESTER AREA CONFERENCE OF CHURCHES INC — $7,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetADELBROOK INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC — $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP COURANT INC — $5,900 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHARC INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFriendship Service Center Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD FIRST INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOUSE OF BREAD INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTEPS Inc — $5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetGIFTS OF LOVE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFAMILY CENTERS INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSafe Futures Inc — $4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY LIFE EDUCATION INC — $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJewish Family Service of Greater Hartford Inc — $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Liberty Bank Foundati…Hartford Foundation f…Peoples United Commun…Farmington Bank Commu…United Way Inc United…The Maximilian E and …J Walton Bissell Foun…American Savings Foun…William Caspar Graust…Aetna Foundation IncThe Petit Family Foun…Ion Bank Foundation I…
Liberty Bank Foundation IncCT42.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Peoples United Community Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Petit Family Foundation Inc · Ion 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 Olga Sipolin Children's Fund 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 60%1%3%6%10%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Network Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Harc Inc — 92% of income from government
  • Friendship Service Center Inc — 85% of income from government
  • Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation — 77% of income from government
  • The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Covenant to Care for Children Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Prudence Crandall Center Inc — 30% of income from government
  • United Community and Family Servicesinc — 29% of income from government
  • Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
  • My Sisters' Place Inc — 26% of income from government
  • Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
  • Steps Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
  • Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation — 12% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Adelbrook Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
  • High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
6get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 53 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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