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The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$215k
Granted FY2025still arriving
49
Grants FY2025still arriving
14
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

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

Education$1.4MHuman Services$620kScience & Tech$492kCommunity Improvement$168kYouth Development$148kArts & Culture$132kFood & Nutrition$121kAnimals$115kOther$0
02FY2025 · 49 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k44 grants · $68k
  • $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
$900
Median grant
14
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$60,000
SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS$30,000
CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER$30,000
FOUNDATION FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS$17,000
SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER$10,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS$5,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$5,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND$5,000
COLCHESTER ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL-AGE TOTAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE INC CASTLE INC$5,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$5,000
SOUTH WINDSOR HIGH SCHOOL$5,000
THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN$5,000
HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORP$3,500
PEDIGREE FOUNDATION$3,150
ALPHA KAPPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION$3,000
02The need
03

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE SALEM MISSION INC: $250 → 10%SPRINGFIELD PREGNANCY CARE CTR: $1k → 17%DOWNTOWN WOMENS CENTER: $205 → 14%3D VISION BASKETBALL ACADEMY: $2k → 5%HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $900 → 9%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $2k → 7%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $2k → 7%PAUSE FOR PARENTS PLAY FOR KIDS INC: $1k → 12%THE SALEM MISSION INC: $150 → 10%HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $700 → 9%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $2k → 7%YWCA OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $2k → 17%HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $650 → 9%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $2k → 7%HANDS OF THE CARPENTER: $500 → 7%YWCA OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $2k → 17%HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE: $625 → 9%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $2k → 7%YWCA OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $2k → 17%HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $600 → 9%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $2k → 7%YMCA OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS: $2k → 17%HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $550 → 9%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $2k → 7%OCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA: $2k → 7%PARADOX SPORTS: $263 → 12%SISTER CARMEN COMMUNITY CENTER: $2k → 12%THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN: $5k → 11%OZARKS AREA COMMUNITY ACTION CORPORATION: $1k → 17%DIGNITY GROWS INC: $103 → 11%HARTFORD RESCUE MISSION INC: $150 → 11%GREATER PORTLAND IMMIGRANT WELCOME CENTER: $500 → 7%PREBLE STREET: $250 → 7%WIDE OPEN GOLF CLASSICS INC: $250 → 11%GIFTS OF LOVE: $3k → 11%GIFTS OF LOVE: $3k → 11%GIFTS OF LOVE: $3k → 11%GIFTS OF LOVE: $3k → 11%GIFTS OF LOVE: $2k → 11%GIFTS OF LOVE: $500 → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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

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CA
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GA
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FL

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.

03Your edge
repeat funding

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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$2.8M · 139 repeat orgs$653k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

139 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2025, 118 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

139
254

Total granted

$2.8M
$627k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+14%

Still filing today

63%
42%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k 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
EducationHealthHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureInternationalOther

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

  • CS
    CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $248k · revenue +116%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS
    5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +32%
  • Foundation for Portland Public Schools
    5× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • SO
    SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS (CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL)
    one grant, 2024 · $30k
  • WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +36%
  • CA
    COME AND DINE (FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF AURORA)
    one grant, 2024 · $20k

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

04Your field

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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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
3
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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4
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
5
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

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6
Trustees of Dartmouth College

Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.

Education
7
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
8
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
9
Trustees of Tufts College

Education and Research

Education
10
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
11
The Water Research Foundation

The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…

Environment
12
Furman University

The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Center for Grieving Children and the most unlike its peers is Simsbury Free Library. 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.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…School District FoundationsCommunity FoundationsFood Banks and PantriesYouth Mentoring ProgramsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Christian Missionary Organi…Jewish Community Organizati…Volunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Health Access Advocacy and …Domestic Violence ServicesElementary Literacy TutoringCommunity Arts CentersDevelopmental Disabilities …Local Food System Organizat…Pregnancy Support ServicesAnimal Rescue and ShelterCommunity College Foundatio…Immigrant Worker SupportYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity Food PantriesAffordable Housing Developm…Ymca Youth DevelopmentPublic Library OperationsMilitary Veterans SupportIndependent K-12 SchoolsSenior Support ServicesEnvironmental Conservation …Orchestra and Ensemble Perf…Cancer Support ServicesLocal History Museums
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%1%<5yr14%8%5–10yr19%17%10–20yr16%21%20–35yr13%26%35–55yr16%28%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%0%<5yr14%2%5–10yr19%18%10–20yr16%35%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%27%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.9%2/235
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,330

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.

04the grantee network

218 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. 218 of the 417 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
36
Early backer (in before they grew)
211/218
Grantees still filing
151/218
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA — $405,000 · OtherSCHOLARSHIP AMERICAIndividual grant recipient — $192,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientSAINT LOUIS ZOO — $90,000 · OtherSIMSBURY HIGH SCHOOL — $80,000 · Other+146 more — $1,543,939 · Other+146 moreCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $119,980 · EducationCLARKSON UN…Tuskegee University — $40,000 · EducationTuskegee Un…UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $27,000 · EducationUNIVERSITY …THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $22,000 · EducationTHE UNIVERS…GIRLS IN STEM — $21,000 · EducationGIRLS IN ST…ALPHA KAPPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $18,000 · EducationFLAGSTAFF ACADEMY — $16,546 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $15,500 · EducationPurdue Research Foundation — $13,605 · Education+14 more — $60,670 · Education+14 moreCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC — $247,725 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICU…CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC — $26,325 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICU…THE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL — $19,500 · Arts & CultureTHE HORACE…+4 more — $27,326 · Arts & Culture+4 moreFoundation for Portland Public Schools — $83,700 · PhilanthropyPEDIGREE FOUNDATION — $17,148 · PhilanthropyPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $11,250 · PhilanthropyMICHAEL MAGRO FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS INC — $5,000 · Philanthropy+3 more — $6,562 · PhilanthropySOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS — $89,500 · Community ImprovementMAIN STREET AURORA INC — $18,700 · Community Improvement+2 more — $3,950 · Community ImprovementST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 · Science & TechNational Society of Black Engineers — $43,000 · Science & TechMars Society Inc — $5,000 · Science & TechDONALD DANFORTH PLANT SCIENCE CENTER — $4,000 · Science & TechFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $44,000 · Food & NutritionHEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $30,405 · Food & Nutrition+2 more — $3,000 · Food & Nutrition
Other$2,310,939Education$354,301Arts & Culture$320,876Philanthropy$130,660Community Improvement$112,150Science & Tech$102,000Food & Nutrition$77,405

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC — $247,725 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCLARKSON UNIVERSITY — $119,980 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS — $89,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFoundation for Portland Public Schools — $83,700 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION — $50,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES — $44,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNational Society of Black Engineers — $43,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE — $41,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTuskegee University — $40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — $37,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSimsbury Historical Society Inc — $31,000 over 2y, 42% of budgetHEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION — $30,405 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION — $27,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC — $26,325 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLORADO WOMEN'S EDUCATION FOUNDATI — $22,500 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC — $22,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGIRLS IN STEM — $21,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetTHE HORACE BUSHNELL MEMORIAL HALL — $19,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMAIN STREET AURORA INC — $18,700 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetALPHA KAPPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $18,000 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetPEDIGREE FOUNDATION — $17,148 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetFLAGSTAFF ACADEMY — $16,546 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — $15,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC — $15,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGIRLS INCORPORATED OF METRO DENVER — $15,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetGIFTS OF LOVE INC — $14,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetOCEAN COMMUNITY YMCA — $14,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPurdue Research Foundation — $13,605 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPASADENA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION — $11,250 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS ON THE RUN - MAINE — $10,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCASTLEBAY LANE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL PARENT AND TEACHERS HELPING — $10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER ST LOUIS INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWRIGHT CITY R-II SCHOOL DISTRICT FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetWINGS OVER THE ROCKIES AIR & SPACE MUSEUM — $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SIMSBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE CO INC — $10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCOLGATE UNIVERSITY — $10,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASCENT SOCCER USA — $9,000 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA FOUNDATION — $9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN MASSACHUSETTS INC — $8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Telling Room — $7,950 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetPAN-MASSACHUSETTS CHALLENGE INC — $7,670 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $6,826 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc — $6,629 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUNTINGTON THEATRE CO INC — $5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNEW ENGLAND WILDLIFE CENTER INC — $5,300 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOUTREACH UNITED RESOURCE CENTER INC — $5,223 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOLCHESTER ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL-AGED TOTAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budget
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 CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
  • Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS ↗
  • Who funds Foundation for Portland Public Schools ↗
  • Who funds ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
  • Who funds National Society of Black Engineers ↗
  • Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds Simsbury Historical Society Inc ↗
  • Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds COLORADO WOMEN'S EDUCATION FOUNDATI ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds GIRLS IN STEM ↗

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.

Hartford Foundation f…The Robert & Margaret…Farmington Bank Commu…The William and Alice…Horizon Foundation IncSam L Cohen FoundationAetna Foundation IncLincoln Financial Fou…John T Gorman Foundat…Saco & Biddeford Savi…Liberty Bank Foundati…Maine Community Found…
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT45.1× affinity26 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation 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 Ensign-Bickford Foundation 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.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 300%3%13%28%50%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • The Village for Families and Children — 50% of income from government
  • Boston Medical Center Corporation — 23% of income from government
  • Three Bays Preservation Inc — 18% of income from government
  • Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Levo International Inc — 10% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
  • New Britain Police Athletic League Inc — 9% of income from government
  • Connecticut Theater Company Inc — 8% of income from government
  • Worcester Polytechnic Institute — 8% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • The Shriners' Hospital for Children — 6% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Huntington Theatre Co Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Mote Marine Laboratory Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Veterans Base Camp Inc — 4% of income from government
  • The Salem Mission Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc — 3% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Reservations — 2% of income from government
  • Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
  • University of Hartford — 1% of income from government
  • New England Wildlife Center Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
  • Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Trinity College — 0% of income from government
  • Baystate Health Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
  • Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
30get no government money at all
36report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Ensign-Bickford 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 directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 417 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

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

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