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S & H Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$33k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
10
Grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
75%
First-time grantees FY2023
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57% of S & H Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to Community Foundation Of Middlesex County Inc, not to grantees.

Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 7 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it.

Organizations named directly on the return

1
’22
2
’23
7
’24

Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.

Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$15,000
Organizations funded a year
1 to 4
FY2022 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$638k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 75% of the organizations S & H Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 76% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving8$14k88%
FY20234$10k75%
FY20221$3kn/a
94% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2022 to 2024.

Philanthropy$25kArts & Culture$6kHealth$5kInternational$5kPublic Safety & Disaster$5kCivil Rights$3kHousing & Shelter$1kEducation$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($9k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget S & H Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMiddlesex Hospital: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEssex Ambulance Association Inc: $4,600 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Community Music School Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEssex Winter Series Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetEssex Library Association Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Connecticut River Foundation at Steamboat Dock Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSister Cities Essex Haiti Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetEssex Foundation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 8.

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.

Kitchings Family FoundationFL20× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kitchings Family Foundation · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · The Karen Katen Foundation · Carlson Family Foundation · Parkinson Family Foundation Inc · Enid Storm Dwyer Foundation · The Foxboro Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · Peach Pit Foundation · Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc · The Bauman Family Foundation Inc · Ibm International 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.

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How do I get to S & H Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to S & H Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About S & H Foundation Inc

How much does S & H Foundation Inc give?
S & H Foundation Inc reported 10 grants totaling $33,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 4 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2023.
What does S & H Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (46%), Arts & Culture (11%), Health (9%).
Who are S & H Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2022 to FY2024: Middlesex Hospital ($5k), Essex Ambulance Association Inc ($5k), The Community Music School Inc ($3k).
Does S & H Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does S & H Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as S & H Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kitchings Family Foundation, The Joanne E Masin Foundation, The Karen Katen Foundation.
Where is S & H Foundation Inc based?
S & H Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 13 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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