· Public charity
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 30 grants below total $675,129 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $938,527 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $263,398 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k8 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k18 grants · $341k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $284k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| Orchard House Medical Adult Day Center | $20,000 |
| Neighborhood Music School | $20,000 |
| Legacy Theatre | $18,500 |
| Shoreline Arts Alliance | $18,000 |
| Guilford Agricultural Society | $17,300 |
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 low income 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 — 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.
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.
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 +27% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 44% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $378k 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
- WFWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC7× · 2018–2024 · $216k · revenue +13%
- GFGUILFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSO INC4× · 2019–2024 · $138k · revenue +27%
- TGTHE GUILFORD ART CENTER INC4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- GFGUILFORD FUND FOR EDUCATION INCone grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue 0% · 62% of their budget
- ACAPK CHARITIES CORPORATIONone grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -25% · 26% of their budget
- BIBHcare Incone grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +7%
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.
non-profit association
The purpose of the guilford historical society (ghs) shall be to collect, restore, and preserve for our posterity those items of historical, prehistorical, artistic, or scientific interest which can serve as a resource for study, or…
To enrich the quality of life in our community by connecting people who care with causes that matter, now and for generations to come.
The mission is to support the development of new performance works and to connect creation and presentation of contemporary performance work with residents of the communities we serve in rural Southeastern Vermont.
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…
To raise money for the guilford town library
Public service
The Garde Arts Center, non-profit professional center for the performing arts, strives to engage, educate, entertain, inspire, and enrich the region of greater New London County, by protecting, operating, and enhancing the historic Garde…
To provide free library services and computer access to the community.
The mission of every baby guilford is to ignite and mobilize guilford county through partnership and unified strategies to eliminate racial disparities and prevent infant deaths.
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.
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 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.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 38 of the 52 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 WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSO INC ↗
- Who funds THE GUILFORD ART CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC GUILFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC ↗
- Who funds ETHAN MILLER SONG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA GUILFORD INTERFAITH VOLUNTEERS ↗
- Who funds Guilford Center For Children Inc ↗
- Who funds The Community Nursery School Inc ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD FUND FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COMMUNITY TELEVISION ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC ↗
- Who funds APK CHARITIES CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE GUILFORD KEEPING SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BHcare Inc ↗
- Who funds DUDLEY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds EAST SHORE REGIONAL ADULT DAYCARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE THEATRICAL ARTS ↗
- Who funds THE LEGACY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE ARTS ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds POWER CLEAN RECOVERY CORP ↗
- Who funds PAUL DOSTIE KARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds NORTH GUILFORD NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE VILLAGE CT ↗
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: Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Branford Community Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Stoddard Family Foundation · MFUND Inc · Seedlings Foundation · The David W Knapp Charitable Foundation · The Echlin Foundation · United Way of Greater New Haven 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 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.
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- BHcare Inc — 68% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Shoreline Arts Alliance Inc — 14% of income from government
- Neighborhood Music School Inc — 4% of income from government
- Guilford Center for Children Inc — 2% of income from government
- East Shore Regional Adult Daycare Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Guilford Art Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- The Legacy Theatre Inc — 1% 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.