· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2022.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 7 grants below total $74,066 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $126,643 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $52,577 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SOUTH CENTRAL CT REGIONAL WATER AUTHORITY | $14,066 |
| SOLAR YOUTH | $10,000 |
| SAVE THE SOUND | $10,000 |
| ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| GREATER NEW HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE-NH PUBLIC SCHOOLS SCIENCE FAIR | $10,000 |
| NEW HAVEN URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE | $10,000 |
| WINNETT FOOD FOREST | $10,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 95% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- TFTHE FOUNDATION OF THE GREATER NEW HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $51k · revenue +3%
- NHNEW HAVEN - URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE INC5× · 2017–2025 · $41k · revenue +68%
NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC5× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +23%
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF ANSONIA NATURE CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +26%
- CSCORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +39%
- WCWESTVILLE COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +5%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
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…
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.
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.
To promote the sound use and management of natural resources. the district provides technical assistance and education in soil and water conservation and control.
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…
Preservation of natural resources in the town of haddam, connecticut.
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…
Dedicated to nature discovery and environmental learning through education, conservation and science.
Preserve, Protect and Enhance the Alewife Cove estuary, water, soils fauna and flora
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…
To inspire, support, and certify sustainability actions by connecticut towns and cities.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Ecology Project Inc and 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.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
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 33 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 THE FOUNDATION OF THE GREATER NEW HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN - URBAN RESOURCES INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN ECOLOGY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds SOLAR YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF ANSONIA NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Winnett Food Forest ↗
- Who funds CORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds WESTVILLE COMMUNITY NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF HAMMONASSET 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.
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
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 The Claire C Bennitt Watershed Fund In 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.
- 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
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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