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The Fortin 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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k22 grants · $106k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $229k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $130k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RETURN TO ROOTS LEARNING COMMUNITY CORP | $80,000 |
| STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $50,000 |
| CHILDRENS OPEN CHARITABLE TRUST INC | $35,000 |
| ST JOSEPH HIGH SCHOOL | $25,000 |
| EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC | $25,000 |
| ECHO HOSE HOOK AND LADDER AMBULANCE CORPS INC | $20,000 |
| THE SAMANTHA AND KYLE BUSCH BUNDLE OF JOY FUND | $20,000 |
| TOWN OF GLASTONBURY CONNECTICUT | $15,000 |
| FARM AID INC | $15,000 |
| C Balogh | $14,000 |
| J Lee | $10,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS INC | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION | $10,000 |
| A Francis | $10,000 |
| M Stanko | $10,000 |
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 (FY22–25, $28k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 64% 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.
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 +26% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2025, 6 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 53% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $220k 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
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION7× · 2019–2025 · $179k · revenue ×12- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY8× · 2018–2025 · $118k · revenue +28%
- CSCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC4× · 2020–2024 · $64k · revenue +35%
Funded once
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +10%- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +7%
- 4C4OCEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
To provide healthcare services.
To improve the health of the region and to provide healthcare services.
The Universal Health Care Foundation's mission is to be a catalyst that engages people and communities in shaping a democratic health system that provides universal access to quality health care and promotes health in Connecticut. The…
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
The non-profit Connecticut Health Investigative Team, C-HIT, is dedicated to producing original, responsible, in-depth journalism on issues of health and safety in Connecticut and the surrounding region.
The mission of the als united connecticut is to provide comprehensive support to improve quality of life for people with als and their families, while advocating for increased support and advancing innovative research for new treatments…
To support its member healthcare organizations further innovation and excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.
To provide medical care in the westerly, rhode island community and surrounding towns.
The mission of connecticut resource conservation & development area, inc. ("ct rc&d") is to enrich local communities by cultivating agricultural viability, conserving natural resources, and growing economies.
The Noroton Heights Fire Department, Incorporated provides fire and other emergency response services to its district within the Town of Darien, Connecticut, as well as providing mutual aid coverage to the other fire departments in town…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc and the most unlike its peers is Return to Roots Learning Community. 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 32 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 8% of your grantees by number, and just 10% 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.
32 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. 32 of the 58 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 STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds Return to Roots Learning Community ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE ECHO HOSE HOOK AND LADDER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds FARM AID INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds GLASTONBURY AMATEUR BASEBALL INC ↗
- Who funds The Angel Charitable Corporation ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds GLASTONBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAMANTHA AND KYLE BUSCH BUNDLE OF JOY FUND ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds 4OCEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds FARMINGTON RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds DIMATTEO FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Ready to Work Aurora ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON FIRE COMPANY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR NEW YORK 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Aetna Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Network for Good · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust
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 Fortin 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.
- Farm Aid Inc — 100% of income from government
- Farmington River Watershed Association Inc — 69% of income from government
- Emerge Connecticut Inc — 47% of income from government
- Children's Law Center Inc — 46% of income from government
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc — 40% of income from government
- Huntington Fire Company Incorporated — 22% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley — 19% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 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.
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