· Private foundation
Ossen Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k54 grants · $85k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $369k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $376k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CENTER FOR MEDICARE ADVOCACY INC | $100,000 |
| GENERATIONS FAMILY HEALTH CENTER INC | $70,000 |
| CLICK INC | $55,000 |
| BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC | $50,500 |
| CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC | $50,000 |
| THE NEIGHBOR FUND | $50,000 |
| MY SISTERS' PLACE INC | $41,000 |
| THAMES RIVER COMMUNITY SERVICE | $33,879 |
| WOMENS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC | $30,000 |
| THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC | $27,500 |
| HIGHER EDGE INC | $25,000 |
| GLASTONBURY ABC INC | $25,000 |
| ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT | $20,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF HARTFORD | $20,000 |
| OPERATION FUEL | $20,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 33% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 22% of Ossen Family Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +6% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
49 repeat relationships: 33 still active in FY2025, 16 since wound down; 43 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, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $240k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CLCONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC4× · 2021–2025 · $405k · revenue +16%
- ECEASTERN CONNECTICUT WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC2× · 2020–2021 · $271k · revenue +84%
- HIHORIZONS INC4× · 2020–2024 · $270k · revenue +170%
Funded once
- CFCenter for Medicare Advocacy In.one grant, 2022 · $100k
- CMCenter Medicare Advocacyone grant, 2022 · $100k
- ECEastern CT Workforce Investment Boardone grant, 2022 · $100k
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
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…
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
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…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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…
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.
How this is measured
98 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 98 of the 160 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR MEDICARE ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds EASTERN CONNECTICUT WORKFORCE INVESTMENT BOARD INC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds PERCEPTION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATIONS FAMILY HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CLICK INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds HIGHER EDGE INC ↗
- Who funds Thames River Community Service Inc ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM REGIONAL COMMUNITY COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds HOLY FAMILY HOME AND SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds Neighbor Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds UNITED SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds THAMES VALLEY COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds MY SISTERS' PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds GLASTONBURY ABC INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Peoples United Community Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Ossen Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Ossen Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc: 100% of income from government
- Twin Pines Housing Trust: 100% of income from government
- Connecticut Alliance of Foster and Adoptive Families Inc: 90% of income from government
- Second Wind Foundation: 85% of income from government
- Thames Valley Council for Community Action Inc: 83% of income from government
- Eastern Connecticut Workforce Investment Board Inc: 80% of income from government
- Community Health Resources Inc: 79% of income from government
- Mercy Housing & Shelter Corporation: 77% of income from government
- Windham Regional Community Council Inc: 76% of income from government
- Thames River Community Service Inc: 76% of income from government
- United Services Inc: 74% of income from government
- Connecticut Community for Addiction Recovery Inc: 67% of income from government
- Center for Medicare Advocacy Inc: 63% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc: 61% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc: 59% of income from government
- Martin House Inc: 53% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated: 51% of income from government
- Holy Family Home and Shelter Inc: 47% of income from government
- Click Inc: 44% of income from government
- St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc: 40% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc: 39% of income from government
- Horizons Inc: 39% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven: 38% of income from government
- South Park Inn Inc: 29% of income from government
- My Sisters' Place Inc: 26% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy: 24% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children: 21% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford: 20% of income from government
- Generations Family Health Center: 20% of income from government
- Health Education Center Inc: 19% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc: 18% of income from government
- Advance Transit Inc: 18% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc: 15% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut: 14% of income from government
- Natchaug Hospital Inc: 11% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- Higher Edge Inc: 4% of income from government
- Veterans Base Camp Inc: 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- St Vincent De Paul Place Norwich Inc: 4% of income from government
- Cover Home Repair Inc: 3% of income from government
- Watkinson School: 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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