· Private foundation
Robert C Vance Char Fdn
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $20k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $101k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $324k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART | $500,000 |
| TRINITY ON MAIN | $199,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL & NORTHEASTERN CT | $125,000 |
| THE PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER | $48,300 |
| SALVATION ARMY OF NEW BRITAIN | $25,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $17,690 |
| NEW BRITAIN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $10,500 |
| NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE | $8,250 |
| PECK MEMORIAL LIBRARY OF BERLIN | $5,000 |
| CONNECTICUT CHORAL ARTISTS | $3,500 |
| THE MUSIC SERIES AT SOUTH CHURCH | $3,500 |
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.
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.
13 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 3 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, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $265k 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
- NBNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC5× · 2021–2025 · $1.6M · revenue +6%
- NBNEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE5× · 2021–2025 · $592k · revenue +14%
- CCCONNECTICUT CHORAL ARTISTS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $20k · revenue +1%
Funded once
- NBNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OFone grant, 2020 · $125k
- UWUNITED WAY OF CENTRAL &one grant, 2020 · $100k
- CCCENTRAL CONNECTICUT STATEone grant, 2024 · $50k
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.
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
The mission of hra is to improve the quality of life by helping people achieve economic and social potential; responding to the causes and conditions of poverty; and building stronger individuals, families and the communities we serve.
All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
The corporation is engaged in encouraging the cooperative efforts of neighborhood representatives, government and participating lending institutions in a combined effort to stem the decline and deterioration of the housing within the city…
A premier center for the arts in the white mountain area of new hampshire
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…
Classical Ballet Instruction and Performance
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Britain Museum of American Art Inc and the most unlike its peers is Trinity-On-Main Ltd. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 9 of the 25 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
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 NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY INC UNITED WAY OF CENT & NE CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds Hospital For Special Care ↗
- Who funds TRINITY-ON-MAIN LTD ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CCARC INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHORAL ARTISTS 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: Community Foundation of Greater New Britain · American Savings Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Marjorie Moore Charitable Fdn · The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · William & Ellen E Macristy Fnd · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · American Online Giving 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 Robert C Vance Char Fdn 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.
- Ccarc Inc — 93% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc — 19% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 3% of income from government
- Hospital for Special Care — 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.
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