· Public charity
The Connecticut Project Inc
The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2022–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k1 grant · $6k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $506k
- $50k–250k32 grants · $3.9M
- $250k+16 grants · $5.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION | $767,000 |
| YALE TRANSITIONS CLINIC | $640,000 |
| ALL OUR KIN | $600,000 |
| JOBS FOR THE FUTURE | $370,000 |
| INFORMCT INC (DBA CONNECTICUT DATA COLLABORATIVE) | $350,000 |
| PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES | $325,000 |
| A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION | $325,000 |
| THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE | $320,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN | $305,000 |
| SOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CONNECTICUT | $300,000 |
| THE CONNECTICUT PROJECT ACTION FUND INC | $300,000 |
| CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH | $300,000 |
| FAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC | $275,000 |
| YALE UNIVERSITY TOBIN CENTER FOR ECONOMIC POLICY | $260,000 |
| CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH | $250,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY23–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 Connecticut Project 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.
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 +41% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.
18 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 29 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, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.6M 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
- ABA BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC2× · 2023–2024 · $1.4M · revenue +23% · 27% of their budget
- CCCTDATA COLLABORATIVE2× · 2023–2024 · $909k · revenue +32% · 26% of their budget
- CNCONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC2× · 2023–2024 · $800k · revenue +387%
Funded once
- CLCONNCORP LLCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $250k · revenue +32%
- ACADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INCone grant, 2023 · $225k · revenue -9%
- SLSTUDENT LOAN FUND INCone grant, 2022 · $167k · revenue -56% · 55% of their budget
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Advancing Connecticut Together Inc and the most unlike its peers is Connecticut Health Foundation Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 4% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 61 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 Yale University ↗
- Who funds A BETTER WAY FOUNDATION ABWF INC ↗
- Who funds CTDATA COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NETWORK FOR CHILDREN AND YOUTH INC ↗
- Who funds Social Impact Partners Inc ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
- Who funds PARTNERSHIP FOR STRONG COMMUNITIES ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT PROJECT ACTION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds FAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOBS FOR THE FUTURE INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF NEW BRITAIN INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds 4-CT CORP ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL DATA COOPERATIVE FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE MODERN CLASSROOMS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNCORP LLC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds ADVANCING CONNECTICUT TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds STUDENT LOAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds EASTCONN REGIONAL EDUCATIONAL SERVICE CENTER INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds MIGRATION POLICY INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds HAVENLY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS AGENCY 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: William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc · Connecticut Health Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · The Melville Charitable Trust 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 Connecticut Project 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.
- United Way of Connecticut Inc — 100% of income from government
- Advancing Connecticut Together Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Housing Collective Inc — 100% of income from government
- Team Inc — 84% of income from government
- Access Agency Inc — 79% of income from government
- Community Health Resources Inc — 79% of income from government
- Connecticut Network for Children and Youth Inc — 70% of income from government
- Conncorp Llc — 69% of income from government
- Simplifyct Inc — 66% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Child and Family Agency of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 55% of income from government
- Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury — 53% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Edadvance — 41% of income from government
- Havenly — 40% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Ctdata Collaborative — 35% of income from government
- Urban Community Allianceinc — 30% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Friends Center for Children Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association — 21% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Eastconn Regional Educational Service Center Incorporated — 13% of income from government
- Yale University — 12% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 11% of income from government
- Jobs for the Future Inc — 11% of income from government
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
- United Way of Southeastern Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partnership for Strong Communities — 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.