· Community foundation
The Connecticut Community Foundation
To foster an equitable and inclusive community in greater waterbury and litchfield hills by inspiring generosity, supporting organizations, and cultivating effective leaders.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 216 grants below total $6,144,401 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $8,586,297 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $2,441,896 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.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k64 grants · $459k
- $10k–50k130 grants · $2.6M
- $50k–250k19 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+3 grants · $1.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WATERBURY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION | $659,353 |
| NEST | $389,457 |
| TEAM INC | $315,000 |
| CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL | $227,030 |
| WATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC | $151,520 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY | $144,532 |
| BRIDGEWATER LAND TRUST | $111,909 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $110,775 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $110,775 |
| STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION | $108,702 |
| SAVE GIRLS ON FYER | $107,000 |
| WATERTOWN TOWN OF | $88,503 |
| YMCA OF GREATER WATERBURY | $82,530 |
| NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION | $67,500 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $67,500 |
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 (FY17–24, $3.0M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 76% 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 19% of The Connecticut Community Foundation’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, 95% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 92% — 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 +43% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.
264 repeat relationships — 180 still active in FY2024, 84 since wound down; 32 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $487k 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
- NHNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WATERBURY INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +301% · 31% of their budget
- WSWATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.2M · revenue +3%
- CCCHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +123%
Funded once
- CSCANTERBURY SCHOOL INCone grant, 2022 · $154k · revenue +19%
- FOFRIENDS OF ST ANNES INCone grant, 2022 · $145k
- TCTHE CHESHIRE ACADEMYgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $136k · revenue +36%
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 humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
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…
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…
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…
We encourage Connecticut residents to participate in government and their communities and we conduct public interest lobbying to advocate for consumer and environmental concerns.
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.
To help connecticut manufacturers apply advanced manufacturing and management techniques to become more competitive, supporting the growth of connecticut economy.
Protecting, enhancing and conserving open spaces encompassing meadows, woodlands, wetlands, and waterways in the town of wilton ct.
All activities conducted by the association are to enable it to:a. establish a better understanding between the members and companies in the construction and related industries.b. foster reasonable and just regulations by governments c.…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Whitney center's mission, excellence in senior living, is grounded in the principal that all elders, regardless of physical or cognitive limitation, have the right to engage in life and seek fulfillment. our ideals of self-determination,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is Ripley Inc. 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 36 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 4% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
347 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. 347 of the 432 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 NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds WATERBURY SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds WATERBURY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTERN CONNECTICUT AREA AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NAUGATUCK INC ↗
- Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds STAYWELL HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds LIVING IN SAFE ALTERNATIVES INC ↗
- Who funds SHAKESPERIENCE PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL MISSION OF WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds STEEP ROCK ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds LAKE QUASSAPAUG ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAVE GIRLS ON FYER INC ↗
- Who funds WELLMORE INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds THE WELLSPRING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON MONTESSORI ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE POMPERAUG RIVER WATERSHED COALITION INC ↗
- Who funds Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds WATERBURY YOUTH SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF GREATER WTBY INC ↗
- Who funds MADRE LATINA ORGANIZATION INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL WELFARE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Bridgewater Land Trust ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCE DEVELOPMENT AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds HIDDEN ACRES THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER 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: Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · The Leever Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
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 Connecticut Community Foundation 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.
- United Way of Connecticut Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Housing Collective Inc — 100% of income from government
- Community Partners in Action Inc — 90% of income from government
- Team Inc — 84% of income from government
- Connecticut Partnership for Children Inc — 84% of income from government
- Mental Health Connecticut Inc — 82% of income from government
- Five Points Center for the Visual Arts Inc — 75% of income from government
- Connecticut Junior Republic Association Incorporated — 71% of income from government
- New Opportunities Inc — 70% of income from government
- Wellmore Inc — 65% of income from government
- Connecticut Coalition to End Homelessness Inc — 54% of income from government
- Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury — 53% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- Prime Time House Inc — 50% of income from government
- St Vincent Depaul Mission of Waterbury — 49% of income from government
- LOVE146 Inc — 49% of income from government
- Waterbury Development Corporation — 47% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Mccall Foundation Inc — 41% of income from government
- Naugatuck Youth Services Inc — 40% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford — 39% of income from government
- Fishfriends in Service to Humanity of — 39% of income from government
- Housatonic Valley Association Inc — 38% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Monitor My Health Inc — 36% of income from government
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% of income from government
- Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Arts Council Inc — 35% of income from government
- Center for Human Development Inc — 26% of income from government
- Connecticut Bar Foundation — 25% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Foodcorps Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association — 21% of income from government
- Steep Rock Association Inc — 19% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury — 18% of income from government
- Goodwill of Western and Northern Connecticut Inc — 17% of income from government
- Staywell Health Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- Connecticut Community Care Inc — 15% of income from government
- Madre Latina Organization Inc — 12% of income from government
- Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc — 12% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- The Palace Theater Group Inc — 12% of income from government
- Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Reach Out and Read Inc — 9% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Land Conservancy Inc — 9% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury Inc — 8% of income from government
- Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc — 7% of income from government
- The Children's Center of New Milford Inc — 7% of income from government
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
- Seiu Education and Support Fund — 6% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- The Pomperaug River Watershed Coalition Inc — 5% of income from government
- Litchfield Performing Arts Inc — 4% of income from government
- Friends of the Litchfield Community Greenway Inc — 3% of income from government
- Washington Friends of Music Inc — 3% of income from government
- Park Central Inc — 2% of income from government
- Washington Art Association Incorporated — 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Landmark Community Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- Shakesperience Productions Inc — 2% of income from government
- Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
- After School Arts Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Bantam Cinema & Arts Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Pilobolus Inc — 1% of income from government
- Village Center for the Arts Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Ccsu Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Little Britches Therapeutic Riding Inc — 0% of income from government
- Nutmeg Conservatory for the Arts Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Wellspring Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Pratt Nature Center 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.