· Public charity
The Hometown Foundation Inc
The hometown foundation, inc.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 36 grants below total $1,324,071 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,780,369 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $1,456,298 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 $10k22 grants · $127k
- $10k–50k10 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $101k
- $250k+2 grants · $891k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC | $477,668 |
| BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC | $413,223 |
| HARTFORD HEALTHCARE MEDICAL GROUP INC | $51,249 |
| 50 LEGS IN 50 DAYS INC | $50,056 |
| THE MICHAEL FUX FOUNDATION INC | $40,000 |
| AUDRAIN AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM INC | $35,000 |
| CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDAITON | $33,000 |
| THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY | $26,500 |
| VETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS | $15,000 |
| BEST BUDDIES OF CONNECTICUT | $15,000 |
| RW HINE HARDWARE STORE | $10,199 |
| FOREVER IN MY HEART FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMY'S ANGELS | $10,000 |
| BELIEVE WITH ME INC | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF SOUTHINGTON | $9,584 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $61k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 74% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 40% of The Hometown 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.
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.
32 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 17 since wound down; 21 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, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $143k 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
- SOSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $6.6M · revenue +44%
- BDBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC6× · 2018–2024 · $483k · revenue +257%
- CCCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC6× · 2017–2024 · $208k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- SISopakco Incone grant, 2022 · $87k
GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +44%
STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +50%
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.
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
K9 hurricane's heroes, a federally recognized, non-profit organization, provides "retired law enforcement and military dogs" with subsidized veterinary care so they can live a long and healthy life. often these incredible dogs are the…
The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.
Brief description of the organization's mission the purpose of the fund is to provide assistance to the families of new york city police officers and firefighters who have been killed in the line of duty. after the events of september 11,…
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
Managing endowment funds for hebrew health care and affiliates.
To prevail over cancer, marshaling heart and mind in bold scientific discovery, pioneering prevention and compassionate care.
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
The mission of staten island university hospital's foundation is to achieve philanthropic relationships for support and endowment, providing highest quality care, services and state of the art equipment. philanthropy has played an…
To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.
We, at ch, humbly join together to bring christ's healing mission and the mission of mercy of the catholic church expressed in catholic health care to our communities.
The bristol hospital development foundation is dedicated to the financial support of bristol hospital and health care group through implementation and enhancement of hospital and affiliate-based development and community relations…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Hookin Veterans. 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 20 years old; the field is 18. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 12% 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.
67 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. 67 of the 99 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 SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds 50 LEGS IN 50 DAYS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds STETSON UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds CT STATE POLICE ACADEMY ALUMNI ↗
- Who funds The Michael Fux Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Inc ↗
- Who funds AUDRAIN AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS ↗
- Who funds Nicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIDSANCTUARY CAMPUS INC ↗
- Who funds DOG STAR RESCUE INC ↗
- Who funds CURE RARE DISEASE INC ↗
- Who funds Best Buddies International Inc ↗
- Who funds THE JOE AND KAY CALVANESE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SELF HELP AFRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CAPLIN FAMILY CHARITIES INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NICOLE CARTIER MEMORIAL FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RETINAL DEGENERATION FUND ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds SAVE A SUIT ↗
- Who funds Casco Bay Bluefin Bonanza ↗
- Who funds AMY'S ANGELS CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT POLICE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds ELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Avon Volunteer Fire Department Inc ↗
- Who funds VETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS ↗
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: Center for Technology and Civic Life · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Amplify Inc · Capital Area Substance Abuse Council Inc · Community Foundation of Greater New Britain · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Arbella Insurance Foundation · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology (FIRST) · Chubb Charitable Foundation
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 Hometown 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.
- Southington-Cheshire Community Ymca — 23% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center — 5% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Stetson University Inc — 0% of income from government
- Big Dog Ranch Rescue Inc — 0% of income from government
- Place of Hope Inc — 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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