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The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Inc
The community chest of new britain and berlin, inc.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 48% of THE COMMUNITY CHEST OF NEW BRITAIN AND BERLIN 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 $10k7 grants · $61k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $249k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW BRITAIN ROOTS | $15,000 |
| CONSOLIDATED SCHOOL DISTRICT OF NEW BRITAIN | $15,000 |
| KLINGBERG FAMILY CENTERS | $15,000 |
| GILEAD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC | $15,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE | $15,000 |
| COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| VETERANS INC | $15,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP SERVICE CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC | $15,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF NEW BRITAIN | $15,000 |
| SOUTH CONGREGATIONAL-FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH | $14,325 |
| COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES INC (CMHA) | $14,325 |
| YWCA NEW BRITAIN | $14,325 |
| AUTISM FAMILIES CONNECTICUT INC | $12,415 |
| THE CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER | $11,938 |
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 (FY17–25, $270k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 16% of The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Inc’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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
39 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2025, 21 since wound down; 7 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, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $83k 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
- PCPRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $146k · revenue +101%
- YWYOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC8× · 2017–2025 · $132k · revenue +64%
- NBNEW BRITAIN ROOTS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $129k · revenue +374%
Funded once
- HRHUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITAIN INCone grant, 2022 · $60k · revenue -4%
- NONEW OPPORTUNITIES INCone grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue -8%
- OIOPPORTUNITIES INDUSTRIALIZATION CENTER OF NEW BRITAIN INCone grant, 2023 · $15k · revenue -9%
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 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…
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut and the most unlike its peers is New Life Ii Ministries Teaching You Another Way. 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 44 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
55 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. 55 of the 65 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 COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER NEW BRITAIN ↗
- Who funds PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BRITAIN ROOTS INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF NEW BRITAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CCARC INC ↗
- Who funds SENIOR TRANSPORTATION SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds KLINGBERG FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds VETERANS INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds ARTS FOR LEARNING CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds GREATER NEW BRITAIN TEEN PREGNANCY PREVENTION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CORAM DEO INC ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITAIN INC ↗
- Who funds GILEAD COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds New Life II Ministries Teaching You Another Way ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT USA ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds GIFTS OF LOVE INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH AFFILIATES INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT STORYTELLING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds UR COMMUNITY CARES INC ↗
- Who funds AUTISM FAMILIES CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CCSU FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hospital For Special Care ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR CHILDRENS ADVOCACY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International 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: Community Foundation of Greater New Britain · American Savings Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Petit Family Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy 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 Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin 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.
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Community Mental Health Affiliates Inc — 96% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Ccarc Inc — 85% of income from government
- Friendship Service Center Inc — 85% of income from government
- Human Resources Agency of New Britain Inc — 78% of income from government
- Lumibility Inc — 76% of income from government
- New Opportunities Inc — 70% of income from government
- Gilead Community Services Inc — 62% of income from government
- Veterans Inc — 58% of income from government
- Boys' & Girls' Club of New Britain Inc — 58% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- Wheeler Clinic Inc — 47% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- New Britain Roots Inc — 46% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Coram Deo Inc — 17% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Community Health Center Inc — 10% of income from government
- Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health Collective Inc — 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Queen Ann Nzinga Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- The Ccsu Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hospital for Special Care — 0% 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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