How much did THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC grant in FY2024?

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 44% of THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

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2020

children ages

2021

sarahadulttherapeuticearly englandpre-schoolchildren ageshealth

2022

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2023

early englandraise awarenessanimalsplanaddictionoutpatient clinicclinic mental

2024

arpaabctheatreprofessionaltrainingscholarshipsyoung

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k8 grants · $51k
$10k–50k18 grants · $341k
$50k–250k4 grants · $284k

$17,300

Median grant

States reached

$8.5M

Total assets

Largest grants

The Connecticut Hospice Inc$75,000
Guilford Interfaith Volunteers$75,000
Guilford High School$68,796
Women & Family Life Center$64,900
Starship Dance Theater & Co$35,000
The Dudley Foundation$26,000
Guilford A Better Chance$25,700
Central Connecticut Coast YMCA$25,000
The Ethan Miller Song Found$25,000
Junior Achievement of Southwest NE Inc$25,000
Neighborhood Music School$20,000
Orchard House Medical Adult Day Center$20,000
Legacy Theatre$18,500
Shoreline Arts Alliance$18,000
Guilford Agricultural Society$17,300

02The need

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.

None of your grants could be placed against cost of living need for this view.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 60% of THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 40% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INClessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1M · 17 repeat orgs$660k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

Total granted

$1.1M

$282k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%

+23%

Still filing today

88%

44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $378k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesArts & CulturePhilanthropyEducationHealthCommunity ImprovementOther

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

GH
Guilford High School
4× · 2019–2024 · $146k · revenue +27%
GA
Guilford Agricultural Society
4× · 2021–2024 · $88k · revenue +26%
GC
Guilford Center for Children
4× · 2020–2024 · $72k · revenue +54%

Funded once

GF
GUILFORD FUND FOR EDUCATIONgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue +102% · 62% of their budget
AC
APK CHARITIES CORPgraduated
one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue +207% · 26% of their budget
BI
BHCARE INC
one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +23%

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.

Friends of the Guilford Free Library

Education

Guilford Foundation

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Guilford Charter School Corporation

Operation of a public charter school.

Education

Friends of the Guilford Free Library

To raise money for the guilford town library

Education

Greater Hartford Automobile Dealers

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The Connecticut Community Foundation

Foster equitable & inclusive community by inspiring generosity, supporting organizations & cultivating effective leaders.

Philanthropy

Guilford Land Conservation Trust Inc

Land conservation, and the acquisition and preservation of open space land in the Town of Guilford, Connecticut.

Environment

The Guilford Foundation Inc

To enrich the quality of life in our community by connecting people who care with causes that matter, now and for generations to come.

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Gifford Community Cultural and Resource Center in

Cultural Center for the community and preserve history for the town

Arts & Culture

Community Housing Solutions of Guilford

Preserve and provide affordable housing through home repairs, renovations and new construction for low-income families to restore dignity and hope.

Housing & Shelter

Broad Brook Community Center Inc

The mission of the Broad Brook Community Center, Inc. is to preserve and care for Guilfords historic Grange Hall by revitalizing it as a gathering place for activities that foster community spirit, honor our community heritage, and spark…

Human Services

Nami Guilford County Inc

NAMI Guilford is a family-based, grassroots, support and advocacy organization, which strives to act as the community hub for information relating to local resources and services for the friends and families of individuals living alongside…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Guilford Art Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Guilford Community Television. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 19. 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

2%1/49

the rest of the field

445/5,010

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.

06the grantee network

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

37/39

Grantees still filing

25/39

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$832,644Arts & Culture$435,520Human Services$269,080Philanthropy$152,166Health$45,000Public Benefit$35,000Education$35,000

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.

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.

Joe & Cindy Goldberg FamilyCT42× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New · Branford Community Foundation · The Stoddard Family Foundation · MFund Inc · Seedlings Foundation · Yale University · The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer

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 organisation THE GUILFORD 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.

2025

’20’21’22’23’24’25

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

6get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: The Ethan Miller Song Found.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~60 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 7 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

7 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 824673514 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on The Ethan Miller Song Found, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 60 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 88% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Guilford Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Guilford Foundation Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Guilford Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph

THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC

What you funded, over time

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Where the money goes

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where the work is directed

Who you back again

Backed again, and grew

Funded once

39 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Government reliance of your grantees

Your grantmaking, live and operational

How do I get to The Guilford Foundation Inc?

More from the funding graph