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Seedlings Foundation

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.

$23M
Granted FY2024still arriving
88
Grants FY2024still arriving
12
States reached
$1.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.

Education$36MArts & Culture$28MHuman Services$23MInternational$19MHealth$15MCommunity Improvement$11MPhilanthropy$9.6MReligion$5.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 88 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k1 grant · $5k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $303k
  • $50k–250k50 grants · $5.7M
  • $250k+23 grants · $17M
$125,000
Median grant
12
States reached
$215M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUTH IN ADVERTISING INC$1,720,000
FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN$1,700,000
SYMPHONY SPACE INC$1,600,000
FRANCIS W PARKER SCHOOL$1,500,000
CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER$1,357,500
NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION$1,100,000
LEAP (LEADERSHIP EDUCATION & ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP)$1,000,000
NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK$800,000
SERVICE YEAR EXCHANGE INC (ALLIANCE)$750,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH$600,000
STATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER$500,000
AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC$500,000
CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC$450,000
INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS$400,000
JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN$359,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $18.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $125k → 17%SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT: $85k → 9%SIMA STUDIOS: $50k → 14%CHRISTIAN COMM ACTION INC: $35k → 12%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $1.7M → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $800k → 12%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $425k → 12%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 12%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $150k → 12%FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN: $25k → 12%TRUTH IN ADVERTISING INC: $1.7M → 12%CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $1.7M → 12%TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: $1.6M → 12%TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: $1.4M → 12%TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: $1.3M → 12%TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: $1.1M → 12%TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: $1.1M → 12%TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: $1.0M → 12%TRUTH IN ADVERTISING: $1.0M → 12%CENTRAL CT COAST YMCA: $585k → 12%CENTRAL CT COAST YMCA: $205k → 12%CENTRAL CT COAST YMCA: $80k → 12%CENTRAL CT COAST YMCA: $70k → 12%CENTRAL CT COAST YMCA: $65k → 12%CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $30k → 12%CENTRAL CT COAST YMCA: $15k → 12%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA: $15k → 12%R KIDS INC: $200k → 12%R KIDS INC: $200k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $200k → 12%YOUTH CONTINUUM: $100k → 12%YOUTH CONTINUUM: $100k → 12%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $125k → 12%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $125k → 12%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $125k → 12%CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN: $125k → 12%CALVIN HILL DAY CARE CENTER INC: $29k → 12%CALVIN HILL DAY CARE CENTER: $27k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $85k → 12%CALVIN HILL DAY CARE CENTER: $27k → 12%CALVIN HILL DAY CARE CENTER: $26k → 12%CALVIN HILL DAY CARE CENTER: $25k → 12%CALVIN HILL DAY CARE CENTER: $25k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $65k → 12%CALVIN HILL DAY CARE CENTER: $25k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $55k → 12%CALVIN HILL DAY CARE CENTER: $23k → 12%NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK: $45k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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.

Which US states your grants reach

ME
WA
MN
IL
WI
NY
MA
IN
OH
NJ
CT
CA
VA
MD
SC
DC
LA
GA
TX
FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$147M · 126 repeat orgs$11M to everyone else

126 repeat relationships — 61 still active in FY2024, 65 since wound down; 25 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

126
64

Total granted

$147M
$7.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+29%

Still filing today

79%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHuman ServicesInternationalPhilanthropyHealthOther

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

  • TI
    TRUTH IN ADVERTISING INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $10M · revenue +57% · 100% of their budget
  • GA
    GRAMEEN AMERICA INC
    7× · 2017–2023 · $8.0M · revenue +598%
  • CB
    CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $7.0M · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • YU
    YALE UNIVERSITY - CENTER FOR DYSLEXIA AND CREATIVITY
    one grant, 2017 · $1.3M
  • PI
    PATHFINDERS INC
    one grant, 2022 · $1.2M · revenue -69%
  • TS
    THE SHERWIN B NULAND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $750k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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3
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
4
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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5
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
6
New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education
7
Mitchell College

Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.

Education
8
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
9
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
10
Fordham University

Fordham university, the jesuit university of new york, is committed to the discovery of wisdom and the transmission of learning, through research and through education of the highest quality. for more information, see schedule o.

Education
11
The Common Application Inc

The common application is a not-for-profit membership organization of over 1,100 colleges and universities across the globe committed to access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process. every year, over 1.5 million students…

Education
12
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven and the most unlike its peers is Artyard (Formerly Sprocket Arts). Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyPolicy Research and AdvocacyJewish Community Organizati…Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Health Access Advocacy and …Domestic Violence ServicesImmigrant Worker SupportElementary Literacy TutoringIndependent K-12 SchoolsYmca Youth DevelopmentSchool District FoundationsPublic Library OperationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Youth Development ServicesFood Banks and PantriesLocal History MuseumsChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Equine Therapy ProgramsAffordable Housing Developm…Christian Missionary Organi…United Way AffiliatesCommunity Arts CentersCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number18%3%<5yr12%3%5–10yr18%15%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr14%22%35–55yr20%32%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value18%1%<5yr12%3%5–10yr18%26%10–20yr18%25%20–35yr14%9%35–55yr20%36%55yr+

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.6%1/165
the rest of the field
10%
2,154/22,280

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

161 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. 161 of the 224 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.

16
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
156/161
Grantees still filing
109/161
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC — $7,050,000 · OtherCLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INCTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $3,184,000 · OtherGRAMEEN PRIMACARE INC — $3,125,000 · OtherLEAP (LEADERSHIP EDUCATION & ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP) — $3,113,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE -CTR EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE — $3,050,000 · OtherYALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE FUND FOR EXCELLENCE IN PEDIATRICS — $2,932,911 · OtherTHE SHERMAN B NULAND FOUNDATION — $2,275,000 · OtherYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC — $2,890,000 · Other+100 more — $34,808,554 · Other+100 moreHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $9,615,000 · EducationHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATE…Teach for America Inc — $6,900,000 · EducationTeach for America IncTEACH FOR ALL INC — $4,300,000 · EducationTEACH FOR ALL INCTHE MY HERO PROJECT INC — $3,300,672 · EducationTHE MY HERO PROJECT INCCONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — $2,386,200 · EducationCONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ART…Francis W Parker School — $2,000,000 · EducationTHE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $1,943,708 · EducationREAD TO GROW INC — $1,750,000 · EducationAMISTAD ACADEMY INC — $1,330,000 · Education+18 more — $5,458,566 · Education+18 moreNATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION — $3,700,000 · Arts & CultureNATIONAL ARCHI…American Museum of Natural History — $2,150,000 · Arts & CultureAmerican Museu…SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $2,000,000 · Arts & CultureSMITHSONIAN IN…THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE — $1,875,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTICU…JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $1,855,000 · Arts & CultureJAZZ AT LINCOL…CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC — $1,700,000 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT NE…AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $1,500,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN JOURN…NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC — $1,039,000 · Arts & CultureThe Musical Arts Association — $901,366 · Arts & CultureFRIENDS OF YOGI INC — $805,000 · Arts & Culture+21 more — $3,531,130 · Arts & Culture+21 moreTRUTH IN ADVERTISING INC — $10,085,000 · Human ServicesTRUTH IN ADV…FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $2,450,000 · Human ServicesFRIENDS CENT…THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC — $1,730,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONNECTI…NATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC — $1,250,000 · Human ServicesNATIONAL DIA…CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $1,035,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CONN…+9 more — $1,662,175 · Human Services+9 moreGRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $7,950,000 · Community ImprovementTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $1,525,000 · Community ImprovementDAE INC — $750,000 · Community ImprovementSOUTH BEND HERITAGE FOUNDATION INC — $400,000 · Community ImprovementTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $4,325,000 · HealthOnline Journalism Project Incorporated — $1,940,000 · HealthWHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH — $400,000 · Health+2 more — $249,531 · HealthUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $1,858,000 · PhilanthropyTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN — $1,310,000 · PhilanthropyJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $740,000 · PhilanthropyTHE GOOD COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — $622,500 · PhilanthropyHARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING — $500,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $450,000 · PhilanthropyFOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC — $425,000 · Philanthropy+4 more — $285,000 · Philanthropy
Other$62,428,465Education$38,984,146Arts & Culture$21,056,496Human Services$18,212,175Community Improvement$10,625,000Health$6,914,531Philanthropy$6,190,500

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRUTH IN ADVERTISING INC — $10,085,000 over 8y, 100% of budgetHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED — $9,615,000 over 6y, 8.8% of budgetGRAMEEN AMERICA INC — $7,950,000 over 7y, 7.3% of budgetCLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC — $7,050,000 over 8y, 9.0% of budgetTeach for America Inc — $6,900,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH — $4,325,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetTEACH FOR ALL INC — $4,300,000 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetNATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION — $3,700,000 over 4y, 23% of budgetTHE MY HERO PROJECT INC — $3,300,672 over 6y, 96% of budgetTHE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $3,184,000 over 8y, 39% of budgetGRAMEEN PRIMACARE INC — $3,125,000 over 3y, 82% of budgetYIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC — $2,890,000 over 5y, 30% of budgetFRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC — $2,450,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetCONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY — $2,386,200 over 5y, 46% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $2,150,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFrancis W Parker School — $2,000,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetTHE SYMPHONY SPACE INC — $2,000,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetSMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION — $2,000,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED — $1,943,708 over 7y, 4.5% of budgetOnline Journalism Project Incorporated — $1,940,000 over 8y, 39% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND TRAUMA INC — $1,895,000 over 6y, 20% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE — $1,875,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC — $1,858,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC — $1,855,000 over 8y, 1.5% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC — $1,750,000 over 8y, 26% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC — $1,730,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC — $1,700,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetTHIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC — $1,525,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS — $1,525,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetAMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC — $1,500,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetSTATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC — $1,500,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetAMISTAD ACADEMY INC — $1,330,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN — $1,310,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSERVICE YEAR EXCHANGE INC — $1,250,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetNATIONAL DIAPER BANK NETWORK INC — $1,250,000 over 6y, 2.7% of budgetTHE RATNER SCHOOL — $1,200,000 over 8y, 5.7% of budgetPATHFINDERS INC — $1,200,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetHIAS INC — $1,150,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC — $1,039,000 over 8y, 14% of budgetCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC — $1,035,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetThe Musical Arts Association — $901,366 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $900,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC — $812,000 over 8y, 9.7% of budgetFRIENDS OF YOGI INC — $805,000 over 8y, 19% of budgetDAE INC — $750,000 over 3y, 34% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF CLEVELAND — $740,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNITED STATES EQUESTRIAN TEAM FOUNDATION INC — $650,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetEYE TO EYE INC DBA THE NEURODIVERSITY ALLIANCE — $643,000 over 6y, 6.4% of budget
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 TRUTH IN ADVERTISING INC ↗
  • Who funds HOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds GRAMEEN AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds Teach for America Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
  • Who funds TEACH FOR ALL INC ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL ARCHIVES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE MY HERO PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THE JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds GRAMEEN PRIMACARE INC ↗
  • Who funds YIVO INSTITUTE FOR JEWISH RESEARCH INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds Francis W Parker School ↗
  • Who funds THE SYMPHONY SPACE INC ↗
  • Who funds SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION ↗
  • Who funds THE FOOTE SCHOOL ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED ↗
  • Who funds Online Journalism Project Incorporated ↗
  • Who funds FOUNDATION FOR THE ARTS AND TRAUMA INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
  • Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds THIRD SECTOR NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL CORPS ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN JOURNALISM PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds STATES UNITED DEMOCRACY CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds AMISTAD ACADEMY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds SERVICE YEAR EXCHANGE 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.

The Community Foundat…Newalliance Foundatio…Yale UniversityEder Family Foundatio…William Caspar Graust…Roslyn Milstein Meyer…Ethel & Abe Lapides F…United Way of Greater…Liberty Bank Foundati…The Jane and William …Jms Foundation IncMFUND Inc
The Community Foundation for Greater New HavenCT79.6× affinity40 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Yale University · Eder Family Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · Jms Foundation Inc · MFUND 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 Seedlings Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 210%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 9%
  • Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Hias Inc — 88% of income from government
  • 'R Kids Inc — 82% of income from government
  • Youth Continuum Inc — 76% of income from government
  • Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
  • Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology — 47% of income from government
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Climatehaven Inc — 42% of income from government
  • Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
  • Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
  • New Haven Preservation Trust Incorporated — 29% of income from government
  • Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
  • Friends Center for Children Inc — 21% of income from government
  • Young Men's Institute Library — 21% of income from government
  • Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc — 14% of income from government
  • New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc — 13% of income from government
  • New Haven Ecology Project Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Sea Research Foundation Inc — 8% of income from government
  • New England Foundation for the Arts Incorporated — 8% of income from government
  • Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research — 7% of income from government
  • The Center for Independent Documentary Inc — 6% of income from government
  • Calvin Hill Day Care Center Inc — 5% of income from government
  • New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated — 4% of income from government
  • Third Sector New England Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Hartford Stage Company Inc — 3% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
  • The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sea Turtle Conservancy — 1% of income from government
  • New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
  • The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
  • Partnership for Strong Communities — 0% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees — 0% of income from government
  • New Haven Promise Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Caridad Center Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc — 0% of income from government
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21get no government money at all
34report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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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How do I get to Seedlings Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Seedlings Foundation 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.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 224 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
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The DAF merry-go-round
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The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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State money flows
the interactive map of money crossing state lines