· Private foundation
The Clinton Roberts Foundation Inc
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.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 81% of THE CLINTON ROBERTS FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k13 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $90k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CT FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| AMERICAN CLOCK MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| SHEPARD MEADOWS THERAPEUTIC RIDING | $15,000 |
| FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| PROSPECT METHODIST CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ZION LUTHERAN CHURCH | $10,000 |
| ORPHAN GRAIN TRAIN | $10,000 |
| PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER | $7,500 |
| SALVATION ARMY | $5,000 |
| CT FARM BUREAU | $5,000 |
| TUNXIS COMMUNITY COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| OAK HILL | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| NUTMEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $5,000 |
| AGAPE HOUSE | $3,500 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY24–25, $25k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 4%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 23 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $21k 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
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $160k · revenue +79%
- BSBRISTOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A NUTMEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA9× · 2017–2025 · $38k · revenue +9%
- FGFIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC2× · 2024–2025 · $25k · revenue +78%
Funded once
- COCITY OF BRISTOL PARKone grant, 2023 · $45k
- BBBRISTOL BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF BRISone grant, 2024 · $25k
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT INCone grant, 2024 · $25k · revenue 0%
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 Bristol Chamber of Commerce strengthens the economic base by providing a professional focus on the business needs of Bristol by facilitating a globally competitive environment including partnerships that leverage economic diversity,…
The Chamber of Commerce of Eastern Connecticut, Inc. is a collaborative of business and community leaders dedicated to securing and enhancing the economic vitality of eastern Connecticut.
Operates as the primary business and community information source for its members and the public; to provide networking opportunities for its members and serve as an advocate on behalf of its members at the local,state and federal…
The Organization was formed to support the Bristol Chamber of Commerce and to unite area businesses, professionals and civic leaders and to combine their talents to build a better community.
To protect the rights of its members, bargain collectively, and promote the reputation of the profession of law enforcement.
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
Provide to its members information, services and special events to expand, promote and develop new business in the greater new haven, connecticut region
Connecticut landmarks ("ctl") uses historic properties to inspire an understanding of our complex past.
To promote education including: to support scholarships, research and student support.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bristol Ct Little League Inc and the most unlike its peers is For Goodness Sake Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 71 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.
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 UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CAROUSEL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BUSINESS EDUCATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A NUTMEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CLOCK AND WATCH MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FOR GOODNESS SAKE 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: Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Main Street Community Foundation Inc · The Sky Bight Foundation Inc · Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation · American Savings Foundation Inc · The Ahearn Family Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Clinton Roberts Foundation Inc 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.
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- New England Carousel Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Bristol Hospital Inc — 1% 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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