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· 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.

$939k
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$75k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$452kEducation$442kHuman Services$361kFood & Nutrition$197kHealth$163kAnimals$34kPhilanthropy$31kInternational$25kOther$0
02FY2024 · 30 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 30 grants below total $675,129, the rows itemized in this filing. The $938,527 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $263,398 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k18 grants · $341k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $284k
$17,300
Median grant
1
States reached
$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Guilford Interfaith Volunteers$75,000
The Connecticut Hospice Inc$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
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
04

Where the work is directed

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

About 60% of The Guilford Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 40%.

The Guilford Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

62%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.1M · 16 repeat orgs$658k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +52% since the first grant, against 0% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
16

Total granted

$1.1M
$280k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+52%
0%

Still filing today

94%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

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

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesArts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthCommunity ImprovementOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • WF
    WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $216k · revenue +13%
  • GF
    GUILFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSO INC
    4× · 2019–2024 · $138k · revenue +27%
  • TG
    THE GUILFORD ART CENTER INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $110k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • GF
    GUILFORD FUND FOR EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2023 · $55k · revenue 0% · 62% of their budget
  • AC
    APK CHARITIES CORPORATION
    one grant, 2023 · $35k · revenue -25% · 26% of their budget
  • BI
    BHcare Inc
    one grant, 2023 · $30k · revenue +7%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Guilford Historical Society

non-profit association

Arts & Culture
2
Guilford Historical Society Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
3
Guilford Foundation
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4
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.

—
5
Guilford Performance Lab Inc

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.

—
6
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
7
Friends of the Guilford Free Library

To raise money for the guilford town library

Education
8
Goshen Community Care Inc

Public service

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9
Greater Hartford Automobile Dealers Association Foundation Inc
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10
Garde Arts Center Inc

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…

Arts & Culture
11
Greenwich Free Library

To provide free library services and computer access to the community.

Education
12
Every Baby Guilford Inc

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.

Public Safety & Disaster
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Guilford Art Center Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

38 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/38
Grantees still filing
23/38
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

GUILFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSO INC: $138,071 · OtherGUILFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSO INCGUILFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC GUILFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC: $80,400 · OtherGUILFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC GUILFORD AGRICULTU…GUILFORD INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA GUILFORD INTERFAITH VOLUNTEERS: $75,000 · OtherGUILFORD INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA GUILFORD INTE…The Community Nursery School Inc: $62,000 · OtherThe Community Nursery School IncGUILFORD COMMUNITY TELEVISION: $53,400 · OtherGUILFORD COMMUNITY TELEVISIONGUILFORD HIGH SCHOOL: $49,310 · OtherGUILFORD HIGH SCHOOLCOMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC: $41,300 · OtherSTARSHIP DANCE THEATER AND COMPANY: $35,000 · OtherTHE GUILFORD KEEPING SOCIETY: $31,350 · Other+19 more: $242,813 · Other+19 moreWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $215,800 · Arts & CultureWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER…THE GUILFORD ART CENTER INC: $110,200 · Arts & CultureTHE GUILFORD ART CENTER IN…GUILFORD PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $20,620 · Arts & CultureNEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureTHE LEGACY THEATRE INC: $18,500 · Arts & CultureSHORELINE ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $18,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $80,000 · Human ServicesTHE CONNECTICUT H…Guilford Center For Children Inc: $72,380 · Human ServicesGuilford Center F…DUDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 · Human ServicesDUDLEY FOUNDATION…GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC: $25,700 · Human ServicesGUILFORD A BETTER…EAST SHORE REGIONAL ADULT DAYCARE CENTER INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesEAST SHORE REGION…CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CONNECTIC…SHORELINE VILLAGE CT: $10,000 · Human Services+1 more: $5,000 · Human ServicesETHAN MILLER SONG FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 · PhilanthropyETHAN MIL…GUILFORD FUND FOR EDUCATION INC: $55,000 · PhilanthropyGUILFORD …SARAH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 · PhilanthropyBHcare Inc: $30,000 · HealthPOWER CLEAN RECOVERY CORP: $15,000 · HealthAPK CHARITIES CORPORATION: $35,000 · Public BenefitPAUL DOSTIE KARE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · EducationNORTH GUILFORD NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 · EducationREAD TO GROW INC: $10,000 · Education
Other$808,644Arts & Culture$413,120Human Services$269,080Philanthropy$141,000Health$45,000Public Benefit$35,000Education$35,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC: $215,800 over 7y, 11% of budgetGUILFORD FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSO INC: $138,071 over 4y, 15% of budgetTHE GUILFORD ART CENTER INC: $110,200 over 4y, 7.9% of budgetGUILFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC GUILFORD AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC: $80,400 over 4y, 11% of budgetETHAN MILLER SONG FOUNDATION INC: $80,000 over 2y, 88% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT HOSPICE INC: $80,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGUILFORD INTERFAITH MINISTRIES INC DBA GUILFORD INTERFAITH VOLUNTEERS: $75,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetGuilford Center For Children Inc: $72,380 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetThe Community Nursery School Inc: $62,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetGUILFORD FUND FOR EDUCATION INC: $55,000 over 1y, 62% of budgetGUILFORD COMMUNITY TELEVISION: $53,400 over 2y, 31% of budgetCOMMUNITY DINING ROOM INC: $41,300 over 2y, 4.3% of budgetAPK CHARITIES CORPORATION: $35,000 over 1y, 26% of budgetTHE GUILFORD KEEPING SOCIETY: $31,350 over 2y, 44% of budgetBHcare Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDUDLEY FOUNDATION INC: $26,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetGUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC GUILFORD A BETTER CHANCE INC: $25,700 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetEAST SHORE REGIONAL ADULT DAYCARE CENTER INC: $25,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGUILFORD PRESERVATION ALLIANCE INC: $20,620 over 2y, 66% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE LEGACY THEATRE INC: $18,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHORELINE ARTS ALLIANCE INC: $18,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetCLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC: $17,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPOWER CLEAN RECOVERY CORP: $15,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetPAUL DOSTIE KARE FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetSHORELINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: $11,250 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSHORELINE VILLAGE CT: $10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetNORTH GUILFORD NURSERY SCHOOL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGUILFORD PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL: $10,000 over 1y, 72% of budgetBlue Moon Raptors Inc: $9,413 over 1y, 40% of budgetWITNESS STONES PROJECT INC: $7,500 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetSARAH FOUNDATION INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVNA Community Healthcare Inc: $5,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Cove Center for Grieving Children Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budget
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.

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.

Joe & Cindy Goldberg …The Community Foundat…Eder Family Foundatio…Newalliance Foundatio…Branford Community Fo…Connecticut Humanitie…The Stoddard Family F…MFUND IncSeedlings FoundationThe David W Knapp Cha…The Echlin FoundationUnited Way of Greater…
Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation IncCT47.3× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Guilford Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Guilford Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
2rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 52 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home