How much does The Echlin Foundation give?

The Echlin Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $492,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does The Echlin Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (39%), Education (33%), Arts & Culture (6%).

Who are The Echlin Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: University of New Haven ($527k), St Martin de Porres Academy Inc ($248k), Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc ($209k).

Does The Echlin Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does The Echlin Foundation accept unsolicited applications?

Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

Which funders back the same organizations as The Echlin Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Newalliance Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Yale University.

Where is The Echlin Foundation based?

The Echlin Foundation is based in CT.

The Echlin Foundation

The Echlin Foundation at a glance

· Private foundation

The Echlin Foundation

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.

$492k

Granted FY2025still arriving

Grants FY2025still arriving

States reached

$50k

Largest

01What it funds

01100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$1.5MEducation$1.3MArts & Culture$246kFood & Nutrition$212kHuman Services$199kHousing & Shelter$145kInternational$94kYouth Development$86kOther$0

02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

$10k–50k23 grants · $442k
$50k–250k1 grant · $50k

$20,000

Median grant

States reached

$3.7M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN	$50,000
ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY	$30,000
YALE UNIVERSITY CHILD STUDY CENTER	$25,000
DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$25,000
MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH	$25,000
ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION	$25,000
CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC	$25,000
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE RESEARCH FOUNDATION	$25,000
NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL	$25,000
PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION	$24,000
FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN	$20,000
LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND ATHLETICS IN PARTNERSHIP	$20,000
DIRECT RELIEF	$20,000
COLUMBUS HOUSE INC	$18,000
YALE CANCER CENTER	$18,000

02The need

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

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Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $382k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.

$3.7M · 33 repeat orgs$233k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$3.7M

$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%

+95%

Still filing today

79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

HealthEducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHousing & ShelterFood & NutritionOther

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

UO
University of New Haven
9× · 2017–2025 · $527k · revenue +42%
SM
ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $248k · revenue +114%
AD
ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC
9× · 2017–2025 · $209k · revenue +40%

Funded once

SJ
ST JOSEPHCANDLER FOUNDATIONS
one grant, 2020 · $30k
YC
YALE CHILD STUDY RESEARCH
one grant, 2017 · $25k
BS
BETHESDA SCHOOL FOR BOYS
one grant, 2017 · $24k

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.

Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities Inc

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…

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Children's Hospital Corporation

Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service

Health

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

Cold Spring School Inc

Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.

Education

Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services

Rumford Hospital

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

Health

Bridgton Hospital

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

Health

Bridgeport Hospital

To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.

Health

New Haven Jewish Community Council Housing Corporation D/B/a the Towers

We are a warm and vibrant senior community, infused with jewish values, where people live their best lives.

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Connecticut Foodshare Inc

The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.

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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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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

How this is measured

The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is New Haven Ecology Project Inc; the most unlike its peers is Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc. 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

28 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. 28 of the 46 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

27/28

Grantees still filing

21/28

Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

Education$1,020,100Health$1,000,000Other$1,081,000Human Services$382,100Arts & Culture$226,000Housing & Shelter$145,000Food & Nutrition$112,000

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

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.

Newalliance Foundation IncCT36.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Yale University · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Seedlings Foundation · Town Fair Tire Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Jane and William Curran Foundation Inc C/O Margaret Andreassi · The Guilford Foundation 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 Echlin Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Echlin Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

5get no government money at all

3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)

1rely 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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More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions

grants reported with no recipient in the public record

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

The endowment market

who holds foundation money, and what just moved

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home