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Sacred Heart University Incorporated

At sacred heart university, we not only prepare students for the future, but also give them a deeper appreciation of who they are and all they can be.

$153M
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Community Improvement$124kArts & Culture$100kHousing & Shelter$40kPhilanthropy$10kReligion$8kEducation$8kHuman Services$5k
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 5 grants below total $134,461, the rows itemized in this filing. The $152,908,820 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $152,774,359 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k3 grants · $21k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $14k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
$8,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$1.5B
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Discovery Science Center & Planetarium$100,000
Fairfield Chamber of Commerce$13,961
Order of Malta$8,000
National Association of Student Personnel Administrators (NASPA)$7,500
Lifebridge Community Services$5,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY25–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Lifebridge Community Services: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its field

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.

1
Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc

Fairfield county's community foundation serves the 23 towns and cities in fairfield county, ct. we work closely with community organizations, nonprofits, businesses, and philanthropists to address challenges and identify opportunities to…

Philanthropy
2
American Foreign Service Association

American foreign service association (afsa) is both the principal advocate for the long-term institutional wellbeing of the professional career foreign service and responsible for safeguarding the interest of afsa members. (continued on…

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3
Fairfield University

To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.

Education
4
Fusion Industry Association

The Fusion Industry Association (FIA) is the unified voice of the growing fusion industry. Fusion energy, when commercialized, will revolutionize the global energy system by providing a clean, safe, sustainable form of always-on energy.…

Environment
5
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…

Philanthropy
6
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…

Health
7
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center

We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. saint francis hospital and medical center is a member of trinity…

Health
8
St Francis College

St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.

Education
9
Hartford Preservation Alliance Inc

Hartford Preservation Alliance's primary mission is to preserve and revitalize Hartford's unique architectural heritage and neighborhood character.

Arts & Culture
10
American Federation of State County 1199 Ct Loc Conn Chca Loc 1199 Pct

A collective bargaining agent for member health care employees in the state of connecticut. any person employed as a registered nurse, licensed practical nurse, professional, technical, service and maintenance, office clerical and others…

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11
Connecticut Police Chiefs Association Inc

The connecticut police chiefs association is an organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life of the residents of the state of connecticut; to aiding other government bodies within and external to the state of connecticut in the…

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12
Cfa Society of Stamford Inc

We are a local chapter that is affiliated with the CFA Institute and share a common goal to promote the highest. We offer high quality programs on topics that provide opportunities for our members and extended community to expand their…

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hispanic Federation Inc; the most unlike its peers is Fairfield Chamber of Commerce Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

8 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/8
Grantees still filing
3/8
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STRATFIELD VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INC: $100,000 · Community ImprovementSTRATFIELD VILLAGE ASSOCIATION INCFairfield Chamber of Commerce Inc: $13,961 · Community ImprovementFairfield Chamber of Commerce IncHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $10,000 · Community ImprovementHISPANIC FEDERATION INCTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $100,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INCHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $40,000 · Housing & ShelterHABITAT FOR HUM…SOVEREIGN MILITARY HOSPITALLER ORDER OF SAINT JOHN OF JERUSALEM OF RHODES: $17,600 · PhilanthropyNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS INC: $7,500 · EducationLIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 · Human Services
Community Improvement$123,961Arts & Culture$100,000Housing & Shelter$40,000Philanthropy$17,600Education$7,500Human Services$5,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $100,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSOVEREIGN MILITARY HOSPITALLER ORDER OF SAINT JOHN OF JERUSALEM OF RHODES: $17,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFairfield Chamber of Commerce Inc: $13,961 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetHISPANIC FEDERATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF STUDENT PERSONNEL ADMINISTRATORS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.

Vanguard Charitable Endowment ProgramPA8.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 0 of 0Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sacred Heart University Incorporated funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sacred Heart University Incorporated. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 10%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 32%
  • Lifebridge Community Services Inc: 32% of income from government
  • The Discovery Museum Inc: 15% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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 8 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 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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