· Private foundation
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.
Read this first · the figures below need context
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
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $18k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX | $15,000 |
| KIVA | $3,750 |
| ESSEX AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION | $2,800 |
| COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| ESSEX WINTER SERIES CONCERTS | $2,500 |
| ESSEX ROTARY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI | $1,000 |
| ESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCATION | $1,000 |
| CONNECTICUT RIVER MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| ESSEX FOUNDATION INC | $1,000 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY22–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 7% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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.
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.
Provide a center for education, preservation, and study of traditional essex shipbuilding and the community that has supported it for over 300 years. we value the skills, creativity, learning abilities, and connectedness to their…
Essex Rescue is committed to being a leader in EMS and to providing our community with excellence in pre-hospital and out of hospital care. We strive for this by maintaining the highest standards of our profession, caring for our patients,…
The mission of the Maritime Music and Tradition Society Corp is preserving and encouraging maritime and traditional music through education, research, performance and community.
The purpose of the Organization is to foster economic security for low-to-moderate income elderly, mobility impaired handicapped, and families by providing affordable housing.
Research and presserve history of Essex County VA & provide displays, presentations, publications and education to the county citizens and visitors
Our mission is to create a viable business atmosphere that will attract compatible and diverse sustainable economic development opportunities.
To maintain middlesex county's historical integrity and to educate and provide programs to the public to increase their understanding of the area's past.
The chester historical society (chs) seeks to promote an interest in the history of chester, ct as a prototypical new england small town that has survived and thrived by adapting to changing cultural, economic and demographic environments.
The mission of the eastern connecticut symphony, inc. is to inspire, educate and connect our communities through live orchestral music.
Land conservation and management
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Programs include lawyer referral service, probate and family law lawyer-for-the-day program, housing court lawyer-for-the-day program, mentor program, superior court statewide conciliation program, probate and family court conciliation…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Essex Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Kiva Microfunds. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 13 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MIDDLESEX HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds Essex Ambulance Association Inc ↗
- Who funds KIVA MICROFUNDS ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX WINTER SERIES INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC ↗
- Who funds SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX FOUNDATION 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: 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
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 S & H Foundation Inc 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.
- Essex Winter Series Inc — 3% of income from government
- The Community Music School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Middlesex Hospital — 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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