· Private foundation
The Foxboro 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 $10k7 grants · $11k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $62k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CT HEMP INDUSTRY ASSOCIATION | $62,000 |
| IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION | $3,840 |
| PANDEMONIUM RAIN FOREST | $3,000 |
| HIGH HOPES THERAPEUTIC | $1,500 |
| GODSPEED OPERA HOUSE | $1,500 |
| ESSEX ELEMENTARY SCHOOL FOUNDATION | $400 |
| PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION | $200 |
| ESSEX GARDEN CLUB | $157 |
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.
Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 43% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
42 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2025, 37 since wound down; 3 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- IPIVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $28k · revenue +47%
- TCTHE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC5× · 2017–2024 · $12k · revenue +16%
- SCSISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC5× · 2017–2021 · $10k · revenue +87%
Funded once
- PFPARKINSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2022 · $445k · revenue -98%
- BSBILL SUSETKA MEMORIAL SCHOLARSHIP Fone grant, 2021 · $5k
- VRVALLEY REGIONAL HS CLASS OF 2020one grant, 2020 · $2k
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.
The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…
The mission of the fitchburg art museum is to inspire creativity and learning, and to contribute to the well-being of our diverse communities in fitchburg, north central massachusetts, and new england. to accomplish the mission, we…
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
To connect people, communities, and cultures through experience of art. collect the most significant works of art available in an effort to shape the quality/scope of the permanent collection while adhering to the institution's…
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…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Provide a center for education, preservation, and study of traditional essex shipbuilding and the community that has supported it for over 300 years. we value the skills, creativity, learning abilities, and connectedness to their…
Founded in 1747 on the enlightenment ideals of intellectual pursuit and civic engagement, the redwood library and athenaeum generates knowledge in the humanities for the benefit of the widest possible audience with nothing in view but the…
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
New england museum association's mission is to connect a community engaged in learning, collaboration, and action to cultivate a better museum world.
Connecticut humanities champions the enduring value of public humanities in our lives and civil society. through grant funding and capacity building, cth strives to ensure the public humanities will continue to inspire storytelling,…
The manchester historical society educates the public about the history of manchester, connecticut; collects, preserves, interprets, and exhibits information and artifacts about the town and its diverse population, and advocates for the…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is Parkinson Family Foundation Inc. 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 46 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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 86 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 PARKINSON FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds IVORYTON PLAYHOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC ↗
- Who funds SISTER CITIES ESSEX HAITI INC ↗
- Who funds THE COMMUNITY MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds PANDEMONIUM RAINFOREST PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FLORENCE GRISWOLD MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Wellesley College ↗
- Who funds ESSEX LIBRARY ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GRANT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MILTON ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CROSBY FUND FOR HAITIAN EDUC INC ↗
- Who funds ESSEX HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Kitchings Family Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Parkinson Family Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · Louis F & Mary a Tagliatela Family Foundation · The Bauman Family Foundation Inc · The Joanne E Masin Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · S & H Foundation Inc · Paul 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 Foxboro 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.
- Art Council of Greater New Haven Inc — 14% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
- World Ocean School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Florence Griswold Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- The Community Music School Inc — 1% of income from government
- Wellesley College — 1% of income from government
- Eugene O'neill Memorial Theater Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Milton Academy — 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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