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Sonya D Dockett Nwachukwu Memorial

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$20k
Granted FY2025still arriving
5
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0196% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Community Improvement$151kEducation$31kYouth Development$17kReligion$15kHealth$12kRecreation & Sports$8kHuman Services$1kPhilanthropy$500Other$0
02FY2025 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$2,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$284k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HARTFORD HOSPITAL AUXILIARY$10,000
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
Individual grant recipient$2,500
ACHIEVEMENT FIRST HARTFORD ACADEMY$2,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY19–19, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 13%WILSON-GRAY YMCA: $1k → 11%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 grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$194k · 4 repeat orgs$62k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +92% since the first grant, against -1% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
9

Total granted

$194k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+92%
-1%

Still filing today

75%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
EducationYouth DevelopmentHealthHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CH
    CT HEIGHTS INCORPORATED
    6× · 2017–2023 · $156k · revenue +60% · 81% of their budget
  • WS
    WATKINSON SCHOOL
    3× · 2017–2019 · $21k · revenue +28%
  • TB
    THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD
    2× · 2017–2019 · $10k · revenue +92%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · $20k
  • BC
    BROTHER CARL HARDWICK INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2024 · $15k
  • BW
    BOO WILLIAMS SUMMER LEAGUE LTD
    one grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -7%
How this is measured

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

04Its 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
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
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
3
New Heights Academy Charter School

New heights is a product of and exists to serve the students of washington heights, inwood, and harlem. we opened in 2006 as the very first charter school in our district. our school was founded by a team of local educators who came…

Education
4
Greater Hartford Twilight Baseball League
Recreation & Sports
5
South Kent School Corporation

South kent school is an independent, college-preparatory school for boys. since its founding, south kent has maintained ties with the episcopal church. three principles define the school: simplicity of life, self-reliance, and directness…

Education
6
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

—
7
The Jewish High School of Connecticut

The jewish high school of connecticut is dedicated to educate jewish youth for whom jewish values and traditions shape and guide their lives and for whom learning and responsible actions are foundational for achievement.

—
8
Central Atlantic Collegiate Conference Inc

The mission of the conference is to enhance intercollegiate competition among its member institutions and to focus on the welfare of the student athlete. the conference and its members are dedicated to upholding the highest standards of…

Education
9
Brunswick School Inc

Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…

Education
10
Howard University Middle School of Mathematics & Science

The howard university middle school of mathematics and science is the only middle school in the country that is located on the campus of an hbcu. we were chartered by howard university for the express purpose of creating a pipeline for…

Education
11
The Bridge Academy Inc

The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…

Education
12
The Harpeth Hall School

Harpeth hall is an independent, college preparatory school for girls and young women in grades five through twelve.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford; the most unlike its peers is Ct Heights Incorporated. 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

11 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. 11 of the 18 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

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

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CT HEIGHTS INCORPORATED: $156,100 · OtherCT HEIGHTS INCORPORATEDIndividual grant recipient: $20,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientBROTHER CARL HARDWICK INSTITUTE: $15,000 · OtherBROTHER CARL HARDWICK INSTITUTE+6 more: $12,000 · Other+6 moreWATKINSON SCHOOL: $21,484 · EducationWATKINSON …ACHIEVEMENT FIRST HARTFORD ACADEMY: $2,000 · EducationACHIEVEMEN…+2 more: $1,125 · EducationTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $6,900 · Youth DevelopmentHartford Hospital Auxiliary co Hartford Hospital: $10,000 · HealthDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 · HealthYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $1,000 · Human Services
Other$203,100Education$24,609Youth Development$16,900Health$10,500Human Services$1,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCT HEIGHTS INCORPORATED: $156,100 over 6y, 81% of budgetWATKINSON SCHOOL: $21,484 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF HARTFORD: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHartford Hospital Auxiliary co Hartford Hospital: $10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetNEW HEIGHTS YOUTH INC: $6,900 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBOO WILLIAMS SUMMER LEAGUE LTD: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST HARTFORD ACADEMY: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT STARTERS JUNIOR OLYMPICS BASKETBALL INC: $625 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMITCHELL COLLEGE: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Bank of America C…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Bank of America Charitable Foundation IncNC7.1× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Sonya D Dockett Nwachukwu Memorial funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Sonya D Dockett Nwachukwu Memorial. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 20%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford: 20% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Watkinson School: 2% of income from government
  • Mitchell College: 2% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
2get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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 18 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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