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The Demattia Charitable Foundation Inc at a glance

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The Demattia Charitable 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.

$414k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
3
States reached
$212k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$872kHuman Services$732kHousing & Shelter$392kCrime & Legal$237kFood & Nutrition$194kPhilanthropy$134kReligion$73kYouth Development$44kOther$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k9 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k8 grants · $180k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $212k
$10,000
Median grant
3
States reached
$810k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE$212,000
NOURISH BRIDGEPORT$45,000
CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS$40,000
FRIENDS OF CHRIST IN INDIA$25,000
BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$20,000
NORMA PFRIEM BREAST CARE CENTER$20,000
GREENFIELD HILLS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH$10,026
LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION$10,000
RECOVERY NETWORK OF PROGRAMS INC$10,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY$4,000
CAPITOL SQUASH$3,500
CAL RIPKEN SR FOUNDATION$3,000
MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER$3,000
THE STOREHOUSE PROJECT INC$2,500
BAND OF PARENTS$2,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 8%THE BROCKTON AREA ARC: $5k → 8%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $20k → 6%CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $75k → 9%LUSTGARTEN FOUNDATION: $10k → 6%BAND OF PARENTS: $3k → 17%CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $25k → 9%BAND OF PARENTS: $2k → 17%CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $20k → 9%BAND OF PARENTS: $2k → 17%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $100k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $75k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $60k → 9%CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $1k → 9%CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $1k → 9%BRIDGE HOUSE: $10k → 9%BRIDGE HOUSE: $10k → 9%HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $252k → 9%HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $250k → 9%HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $212k → 9%MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER: $3k → 9%BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION: $10k → 9%RUTH'S HOUSE: $2k → 9%GOLF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN: $2k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

NY
MA
CT
CA
VA
MD
AZ
TN
SC
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.5M · 23 repeat orgs$232k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +44% since the first grant, against +12% for those funded once.

23 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
21

Total granted

$2.5M
$198k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+12%

Still filing today

74%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesHealthEducationReligionPhilanthropyRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • HN
    HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC
    3× · 2023–2025 · $714k · revenue +7%
  • BR
    BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC
    4× · 2017–2021 · $245k · revenue +66%
  • NB
    NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $186k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • MG
    MASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED
    one grant, 2018 · $50k
  • MG
    MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2022 · $46k
  • GJ
    GUTHY JACKSON FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · $25k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
2
Rumford Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
3
Bristol Hospital Inc

Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…

Health
4
Connecticut Community Care Inc

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…

Health
5
Bridges Healthcare Inc

Bridges healthcare has provided a comprehensive range of mental health/substance abuse treatment (including serious mental illness, emotional disturbance, and co-occurring mental/substance use disorders) to children and adults in new haven…

Health
6
Wood River Health Services Inc

To improve the health and well-being of our community by providing high quality, coordinated health and support services, accessible to all.

Health
7
Central Maine Healthcare Corporation

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.

Health
8
Northeast Medical Group Inc

To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.

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9
Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health
10
Central Maine Medical Center

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.

Health
11
Hospital for Special Care

Hospital for Special Care is a 236-Bed Rehabilitation and Chronic Disease hospital, serving patients in these primary areas: Inpatient and Outpatient Rehabilitation.

Health
12
Community Health Services Inc

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.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Norma F Pfriem Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

35 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 35 of the 50 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/35
Grantees still filing
24/35
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $714,100 · Human ServicesHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INCBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $245,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INCTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $122,200 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC+7 more: $68,000 · Human Services+7 moreNORMA F PFRIEM FOUNDATION: $542,500 · OtherNORMA F PFRIEM FOUNDATIONHABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $127,400 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITYCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $115,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMI…GREENFIELD HILLS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $70,526 · OtherGREENFIELD HILLS CONGREGATIONAL CHURCHMASS GENERAL BRIGHAM INCORPORATED: $50,000 · OtherMASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL: $46,000 · Other+19 more: $126,000 · Other+19 moreNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC: $186,000 · Religion+1 more: $2,500 · ReligionRECOVERY NETWORK OF PROGRAMS INC: $105,000 · HealthBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 · HealthUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK: $15,000 · Health+6 more: $14,500 · HealthFRIENDS OF CALLAWASSIE ISLAND INC: $118,800 · PhilanthropyFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCapitol Squash Inc: $33,500 · Recreation & SportsFriends of Christ in India Inc: $25,000 · International
Human Services$1,149,300Other$1,077,426Religion$188,500Health$174,500Philanthropy$128,800Recreation & Sports$33,500International$25,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $714,100 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $245,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC: $186,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $122,200 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF CALLAWASSIE ISLAND INC: $118,800 over 8y, 25% of budgetCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $115,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetRECOVERY NETWORK OF PROGRAMS INC: $105,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCapitol Squash Inc: $33,500 over 9y, 1.2% of budgetMARC LUSTGARTEN PANCREATIC CANCER FOUNDATION: $30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRIDGE HOUSE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED HOSPITAL FUND OF NEW YORK: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAPPALACHIA SERVICE PROJECT INC: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBAND OF PARENTS INC: $6,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFAIRFIELD CHRISTMAS TREE FESTIVAL: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetREACH Western CT Inc: $3,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP NOT-A-WHEEZE: $3,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE STOREHOUSE PROJECT INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUTHS HOUSE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetGOLF FOR SPECIAL NEEDS CHILDREN INC: $1,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC: $1,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN HERITAGE SCHOOL INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…Elizabeth M Pfriem Fo…The Near and Far Asso…The John and Ethel Ka…Tauck Family Foundati…The Aiello Charitable…Newman's Own Foundati…Estate of Benjamin B …The Bridgeport Rotary…Ernest and Joan Trefz…Impact 100 Fairfield …Southwestern Ct Agenc…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT29.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Elizabeth M Pfriem Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · Tauck Family Foundation · The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · Estate of Benjamin B Lewis · The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inc · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Impact 100 Fairfield County · Southwestern Ct Agency on Aging Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Demattia Charitable Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Demattia Charitable Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 70%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 19%
  • Brockton Area Arc Inc: 91% of income from government
  • Bridge House Inc: 88% of income from government
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Recovery Network of Programs Inc: 38% of income from government
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Hall Neighborhood House Inc: 27% of income from government
  • Nourish Bridgeport Inc: 19% of income from government
  • Cal Ripken Sr Foundation Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp: 11% of income from government
  • Cardinal Shehan Center Inc: 4% of income from government
  • Mcgivney Community Center Inc: 2% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Bridgeport Hospital: 0% of income from government
  • Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
7get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Demattia Charitable Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Demattia Charitable Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 50 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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