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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
Grants FY2022
1
States reached
$14k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
01100% 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
02FY2022 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $74,066, the rows itemized in this filing. The $126,643 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $52,577 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.
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTH CENTRAL CT REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY$14,066
WINNETT FOOD FOREST$10,000
ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY$10,000
SOLAR YOUTH$10,000
SAVE THE SOUND$10,000
GREATER NEW HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE-NH PUBLIC SCHOOLS SCIENCE FAIR$10,000
NEW HAVEN URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE$10,000
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.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 95%.

The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund Inlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 4.9% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

85%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$296k · 9 repeat orgs$52k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +40% since the first grant, against +31% for those funded once.

9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
5

Total granted

$296k
$42k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+31%

Still filing today

78%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

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

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

’17’18’19’21’22
EnvironmentEducationFood & NutritionCommunity ImprovementHealthOther
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

  • TF
    THE FOUNDATION OF THE GREATER NEW HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC
    8× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +3%
  • NH
    NEW HAVEN - URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +68%
  • NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC
    5× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF ANSONIA NATURE CENTER INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +26%
  • CS
    CORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +39%
  • WC
    WESTVILLE COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +5%
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
Cold Spring School Inc

Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.

Education
3
North Central Conservation District Inc

To provide leadership and take initiatives for locally led conservation with the goal to protect soil, water and other natural resources of north central connecticut.

Environment
4
Connecticut River Coastal Conservation District Inc

To promote the sound use and management of natural resources. the district provides technical assistance and education in soil and water conservation and control.

Environment
5
Winchester Historical Society
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6
Newtown Forest Association Inc

The Newtown Forest Association is the oldest private land trust organization in Connecticut. It has been dedicated for one hundred years to securing for the residents of Newtown and for posterity generally the benefits derived from open…

Environment
7
Haddam Land Trust Inc

Preservation of natural resources in the town of haddam, connecticut.

Environment
8
Highville Charter School

Close-knit, community rooted, and culturally affirming PreK-12 charter school that offers small classrooms, caring and healthy relationships, data-driven curriculum and programming focused on whole child social, emotional, and academic…

Education
9
Earthplace Inc

Dedicated to nature discovery and environmental learning through education, conservation and science.

Environment
10
Alewife Cove Conservancy

Preserve, Protect and Enhance the Alewife Cove estuary, water, soils fauna and flora

Environment
11
Save New Canaan Inc

Save New Canaan Inc. (the Corporation) was formed to promote sustainable and appropriate development, as well as to advocate for the protection of open spaces, wetlands and other public trust goods, such as road, water and sewer…

Environment
12
Sustainable Ct Inc

To inspire, support, and certify sustainability actions by connecticut towns and cities.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Ecology Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Winnett Food Forest. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

18 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE FOUNDATION OF THE GREATER NEW HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $50,750 · OtherTHE FOUNDATION OF THE GREATER …CT FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENT: $20,000 · OtherCT FUND FOR THE ENVIRONMENTSOUTH CENTRAL CT REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY: $19,566 · OtherSOUTH CENTRAL CT REGIONAL WATE…SHALOM UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST: $5,000 · OtherSOLAR YOUTH INC: $40,000 · EducationSOLAR YOUTH INCST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC: $34,378 · EducationST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY I…Yale University: $10,018 · EducationYale UniversityWESTVILLE COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $9,752 · EducationWESTVILLE COMMUNITY NURSERY S…GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC): $30,000 · EnvironmentGATHER NEW HAVEN INC …SAVE THE SOUND: $20,000 · EnvironmentSAVE THE SOUNDFRIENDS OF ANSONIA NATURE CENTER INC: $10,000 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF ANSONIA NA…FRIENDS OF HAMMONASSET INC: $7,500 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF HAMMONASSE…NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC: $40,000 · Food & NutritionNEW HAVEN ECOLO…Winnett Food Forest: $10,000 · Food & NutritionWinnett Food Fo…NEW HAVEN - URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE INC: $41,000 · Community ImprovementNEW HAVEN - …CORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATION: $10,000 · Health
Other$95,316Education$94,148Environment$67,500Food & Nutrition$50,000Community Improvement$41,000Health$10,000

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 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 budgetYale University: $10,018 over 1y, 0.0% 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
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.

Newalliance Foundatio…The Community Foundat…Sustainable Ct IncNew Haven Green Fund …United Way of Greater…Yale UniversityPatagoniaorgIn Our Backyards IncPeoples United Commun…National Fish and Wil…The Chicago Community…The Pfizer Foundation…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • New Haven - Urban Resources Initiative Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
  • Solar Youth Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Yale University: 12% of income from government
  • Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation: 12% of income from government
  • Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc): 11% of income from government
  • New Haven Ecology Project Inc: 9% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely 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.
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Find your warmest path to The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In 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 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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