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The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In

To protect water quality throughout the region by acquiring ecologically significant watershed land and by educating citizens as to how they can help preserve the environment and open space on watershed land.

$127k
Granted FY2022
7
Itemized grants FY2022
7
Organizations funded FY2022
14%
First-time grantees FY2022
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Itemized, FY2022
$74k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2022
$10,000
Largest grant, FY2022
$14,066
Organizations funded a year
4 to 10
FY2017 to FY2022
States reached, FY2022
1
Total assets, FY2022
$2.0M

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2022, 14% of the organizations The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’21’22
EnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY20227$74k14%
FY202110$110k60%
FY20196$63k17%
FY20184$40k25%
FY20176$61kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.

Environment$198kScience & Tech$51kEducation$44kYouth Development$40kHealth$15kFood & Nutrition$10k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Foundation of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Inc$50,750810%
New Haven - Urban Resources Initiative Inc$41,00052%
New Haven Ecology Project Inc$40,00050%
Solar Youth Inc$40,00062%
St Martin de Porres Academy Inc$34,37851%
Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc)$30,00052%
Ct Fund for the Environment$20,0002n/a
Save the Sound$20,00040%
South Central Ct Regional Water Authority$19,5663n/a
Friends of Ansonia Nature Center Inc$10,00015%
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All grantees of The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Foundation of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Inc$50,750810%
New Haven - Urban Resources Initiative Inc$41,00052%
New Haven Ecology Project Inc$40,00050%
Solar Youth Inc$40,00062%
St Martin de Porres Academy Inc$34,37851%
Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc)$30,00052%
Ct Fund for the Environment$20,0002n/a
Save the Sound$20,00040%
South Central Ct Regional Water Authority$19,5663n/a
Friends of Ansonia Nature Center Inc$10,00015%
Winnett Food Forest$10,0001n/a
Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation$10,00010%
Westville Community Nursery School Inc$9,75213%
Friends of Hammonasset Inc$7,50015%
Shalom United Church of Christ$5,0001n/a

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Foundation of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Inc: $50,750 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetNew Haven - Urban Resources Initiative Inc: $41,000 over 5y, 2.1% of budgetNew Haven Ecology Project Inc: $40,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetSolar Youth Inc: $40,000 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetSt Martin de Porres Academy Inc: $34,378 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetGather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc): $30,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetSave the Sound: $20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of Ansonia Nature Center Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestville Community Nursery School Inc: $9,752 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetFriends of Hammonasset Inc: $7,500 over 1y, 5.1% 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 11.

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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.

Newalliance Foundation IncCT21.9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Sustainable Ct Inc · New Haven Green Fund Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Yale University · Patagoniaorg · In Our Backyards Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · The Chicago Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc

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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About The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In

How much does The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In give?
The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In reported 7 itemized grants totaling $74,066, out of $126,643 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 10 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
What does The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Environment (55%), Science & Tech (14%), Education (12%).
Who are The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: The Foundation of the Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Inc ($51k), New Haven - Urban Resources Initiative Inc ($41k), New Haven Ecology Project Inc ($40k).
Does The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In fund new organizations?
In FY2022, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Newalliance Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Sustainable Ct Inc.
Where is The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In based?
The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In 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 16 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 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $187k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2022, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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