· Private foundation
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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| THE SAMANTHA AND KYLE BUSCH BUNDLE OF JOY FUND | $20,000 |
| ECHO HOSE HOOK AND LADDER AMBULANCE CORPS INC | $20,000 |
| TOWN OF GLASTONBURY CONNECTICUT | $15,000 |
| FARM AID INC | $15,000 |
| C Balogh | $14,000 |
| MERCY CHEFS INC | $10,000 |
| A Francis | $10,000 |
| M Stanko | $10,000 |
| J Lee | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +26% since the first grant, against +10% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- 4C4OCEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2024 · $20k
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +7%
ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INCone grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue +10%
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.
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.
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…
How this is measured
33 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. 33 of the 58 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
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.
- 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 SHELTON VOLUNTEER FIRE COMPANY NUMBER 4 PINE ROCK PARK INC ↗
- Who funds GLASTONBURY VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds 4OCEAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE SAMANTHA AND KYLE BUSCH BUNDLE OF JOY FUND ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds FARMINGTON RIVER WATERSHED ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY CHEFS INC ↗
- Who funds DIMATTEO FAMILY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HUNTINGTON FIRE COMPANY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Ready to Work Aurora ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR NEW YORK INC ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Fortin Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Fortin Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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