· Community foundation
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
The mission of the community foundation is to create positive and sustainable change in greater new haven by increasing the amount and enhancing the impact of community philathropy.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 92% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN’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 · FY2024
- Under $10k150 grants · $1.1M
- $10k–50k259 grants · $5.4M
- $50k–250k83 grants · $7.3M
- $250k+13 grants · $9.7M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BETTER LOCAL ECOSYSTEMS LLC | $2,800,000 |
| THE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC | $1,288,552 |
| NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA | $1,163,995 |
| NEW HAVEN MUSEUM AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $1,136,170 |
| LOST IN NEW HAVEN INC | $570,000 |
| LEAP | $447,450 |
| INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS & IDEAS | $370,000 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC | $369,521 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $363,082 |
| LONG WHARF THEATRE | $316,476 |
| CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $305,000 |
| DELIBERATIVE DEMOCRACY GIFT FUND | $270,000 |
| CAMP TAWONGA | $250,000 |
| FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CARE | $242,000 |
| CORNELL SCOTT HILL HEALTH CORPORATION | $230,500 |
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 (FY23–24, $2.2M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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 23% of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven’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.
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 +13% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.
314 repeat relationships — 301 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 174 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6.0M 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
- NHNEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC2× · 2023–2024 · $2.4M · revenue +9% · 55% of their budget
- NMNEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC2× · 2023–2024 · $757k · revenue +23%
UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC2× · 2023–2024 · $640k · revenue +47%
Funded once
- NCNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $44M
- LWLONG WHARF THEATREone grant, 2022 · $4.2M
- JBJOHN B PIERCE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · $1.8M
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…
To grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
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.
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…
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.
The mission of the community foundation is to create positive and sustainable change in greater new haven by increasing the amount and enhancing the impact of community philathropy.
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…
To help connecticut manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques to become more competitive, supporting the growth of connecticut economy.
The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Gay and Lesbian Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is American Friends of the Canadian Centre for Architecture. 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 32 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.3% 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.
388 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. 388 of the 1,131 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN COLONY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds LOST IN NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE ↗
- Who funds LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Yale University ↗
- Who funds CORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR HAVEN COMMUNITY HEALTH CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW HAVEN SCHOLARSHIP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE GREATER NEW HAVEN CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT YANKEE COUNCIL INC BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA ↗
- Who funds PROJECT ACCESS OF NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds TAWONGA JEWISH COMMUNITY CORPORATION ↗
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 · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Yale University · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · Connecticut Humanities Council 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 Foundation for Greater New Haven 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.
- Continuum of Care Inc — 100% of income from government
- New Haven - Urban Resources Initiative Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Black Business Alliance Inc — 100% of income from government
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Milford Inc — 88% of income from government
- City Seed Inc — 87% of income from government
- The Connecticut Women's Consortium Inc — 82% of income from government
- Liberty Community Services — 78% of income from government
- Lumibility Inc — 76% of income from government
- Youth Continuum Inc — 76% of income from government
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- BHcare Inc — 68% of income from government
- Bridges Healthcare Inc — 67% of income from government
- Fellowship Place Inc — 66% of income from government
- Agency On Aging of South Central Connecticut — 55% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- The Diaper Bank of Connecticut Inc — 49% of income from government
- New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc — 47% of income from government
- Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology — 47% of income from government
- Clicc Inc — 46% of income from government
- Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc — 44% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Climatehaven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Havenly — 40% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Open Communities Alliance Inc — 39% of income from government
- Comunidad Hispana De Wallingford — 38% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Junta for Progressive Action Inc — 35% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Village Inc — 32% of income from government
- Urban Community Allianceinc — 30% of income from government
- Christian Community Action Inc — 29% of income from government
- Community Action Agency of New Haven Inc — 29% of income from government
- Canal Dock Boathouse Incorporated — 28% of income from government
- Massaro Community Farm Inc — 27% of income from government
- Latinas & Power Corp — 24% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- She Leads Justice Inc — 22% of income from government
- The Children's Center of Hamden Inc — 20% of income from government
- Solar Youth Inc — 19% of income from government
- Lawyers for Children America Inc — 19% of income from government
- Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc — 18% of income from government
- Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc — 17% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- Health Equity Solutions Inc — 14% of income from government
- Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc — 14% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Chapel Haven Schleifer Center Inc — 13% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc — 13% of income from government
- Freedom Reads Inc — 12% 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
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- The Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce Inc — 9% of income from government
- New Haven Ecology Project Inc — 9% of income from government
- Best Video Film and Cultural Center — 8% of income from government
- Huneebee Project Inc — 8% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Center for Childrens Advocacy Inc — 5% of income from government
- Neighborhood Music School Inc — 4% of income from government
- New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated — 4% of income from government
- Squash Haven Inc — 4% of income from government
- Wheat Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Haven Chorale Inc — 3% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- The Mary Wade Home Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven Inc — 1% of income from government
- Leila Day Nurseries Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- Nxthvn Inc — 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Guilford Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre — 1% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Eli Whitney Museum Inc — 0% of income from government
- New Haven Promise Inc — 0% of income from government
- Shriners Hospitals for Children — 0% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc — 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.