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The Hometown Foundation Inc

The hometown foundation, inc.

$3.9M
Granted FY2025still arriving
34
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$665k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Recreation & Sports$6.7MHealth$734kAnimals$726kEducation$373kPhilanthropy$234kArts & Culture$177kInternational$127kCommunity Improvement$125kOther$0
02FY2025 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 34 grants below total $2,138,540, the rows itemized in this filing. The $3,913,861 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $1,775,321 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 · FY2025

  • Under $10k8 grants · $60k
  • $10k–50k19 grants · $385k
  • $50k–250k4 grants · $404k
  • $250k+3 grants · $1.3M
$20,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC$665,000
PALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF FOUNDATION INC$365,608
BEST BUDDIES OF CONNECTICUT$260,000
50 LEGS IN 50 DAYS INC$138,597
CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER FOUNDAITON$115,000
TEMPLE UNIVERSITY$100,000
TERRY FATOR FOUNDATION$50,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC$37,067
AUDRAIN AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM INC$35,000
FARMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC$28,203
SOS CHILDREN'S VILLAGES FLORIDA$25,000
FRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE$25,000
GULFSTREAM GOODWILL$25,000
THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY$25,000
HAMPDEN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE$21,000
02The need
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Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $78k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 58% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Challenged Athletes Foundation: $5k → 11%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $17k → 9%MONTAUK FIRE DEPARTMENT: $5k → 7%GUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $11k → 9%Project Home: $10k → 22%BELIEVE WITH ME INC: $10k → 11%Place of Hope Inc: $10k → 11%SOUTHINGTON-CHESHIRE COMMUNITY YMCA: $5k → 11%SOUTHINGTON-CHESHIRE COMMUNITY YMCA: $5k → 11%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
IL
NY
MA
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
CO
MD
NC
SC
DC
GA
TX
FL
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.
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Where the work is directed

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

About 40% of The Hometown Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Hometown 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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$10M · 35 repeat orgs$1.5M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +24% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

35 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 19 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
62

Total granted

$10M
$705k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+13%

Still filing today

91%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $754k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthPhilanthropyAnimalsEducationHuman ServicesInternationalOther
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

  • SO
    SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $6.7M · revenue +44%
  • BD
    BIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC
    7× · 2018–2025 · $1.1M · revenue +257%
  • CC
    CONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC
    7× · 2017–2025 · $323k · revenue +164%

Funded once

  • SI
    Sopakco Inc
    one grant, 2022 · $87k
  • STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $50k · revenue +50%
  • GLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · $50k · revenue +44%
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
Connecticut Cancer Foundation Inc

To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.

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2
American Kennel Club Canine Health Foundation

The mission of the akc canine health foundation, inc. is to fund, advance, and communicate canine health research and science through knowledge and discovery.

Animals
3
Ny Police and Fire Widows' & Children's Benefit Fund Inc

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,…

Human Services
4
Fox Chase Cancer Center Foundation

To prevail over cancer, marshaling heart and mind in bold scientific discovery, pioneering prevention and compassionate care.

Health
5
St Francis Hospital Foundation Inc

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.

Health
6
K9 Hurricane's Heroes Inc

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…

Animals
7
Federation of State Medical Boards of the United States Inc

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…

Health
8
Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network Inc

The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).

Health
9
Prostate Cancer Foundation

The prostate cancer foundation (pcf) funds the world's most promising research on the biology and treatment of prostate cancer, accelerating those discoveries into therapies and strategies designed to improve the quality of life and…

Philanthropy
10
Dana-Farber Children's Hospital Cancer Care Inc

To oversee, coordinate and support the Pediatric Oncology Programs at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Inc.

Health
11
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
12
Staten Island University Hospital Foundation

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Make-a-Wish Foundation of Connecticut Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

80 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. 80 of the 118 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
76/80
Grantees still filing
48/80
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $6,678,303 · Recreation & SportsSPECIAL OLYMPICS INCBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $1,147,923 · AnimalsBIG DOG RANCH…CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $65,431 · AnimalsMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $64,931 · AnimalsDOG STAR RESCUE INC: $49,500 · Animals+5 more: $61,772 · AnimalsPALM BEACH COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: $365,608 · OtherPALM BEACH COUN…THE CHESHIRE ACADEMY: $161,500 · OtherTHE CHESHIRE AC…Sopakco Inc: $86,519 · OtherSopakco IncKENWAYS CAUSE: $65,456 · OtherAUDRAIN AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM INC: $105,000 · OtherAUDRAIN AUTOMOB…CT STATE POLICE ACADEMY ALUMNI: $87,188 · OtherCT STATE POLICE…+62 more: $737,773 · Other+62 moreCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $323,000 · Health50 LEGS IN 50 DAYS INC: $308,653 · HealthHartford HealthCare Medical Group Inc: $71,366 · HealthCURE RARE DISEASE INC: $35,000 · Health+12 more: $163,713 · HealthBest Buddies International Inc: $294,500 · InternationalGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 · InternationalSELF HELP AFRICA INC: $42,500 · International+1 more: $5,000 · InternationalSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $110,000 · EducationTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $100,000 · EducationSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50,000 · EducationCasco Bay Bluefin Bonanza: $30,000 · EducationCAPLIN FAMILY CHARITIES INC: $30,000 · Education+3 more: $24,450 · EducationThe Michael Fux Foundation Inc: $80,000 · PhilanthropyNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $60,000 · PhilanthropyTERRY FATOR FOUNDATION: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTHE JOE AND KAY CALVANESE FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 · PhilanthropyNICOLE CARTIER MEMORIAL FUND INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyMAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 · PhilanthropyBURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyFIREMAN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW HAVEN: $11,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $25,000 · Philanthropy
Recreation & Sports$6,678,303Animals$1,389,557Other$1,609,044Health$901,732International$392,000Education$344,450Philanthropy$323,500

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS INC: $6,678,303 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBIG DOG RANCH RESCUE INC: $1,147,923 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION INC: $323,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budget50 LEGS IN 50 DAYS INC: $308,653 over 3y, 14% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $294,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHESHIRE ACADEMY: $161,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSTETSON UNIVERSITY INC: $110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAUDRAIN AUTOMOBILE MUSEUM INC: $105,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetTemple University - Of The Commonwealth System of Higher Education: $100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCT STATE POLICE ACADEMY ALUMNI: $87,188 over 2y, 33% of budgetThe Michael Fux Foundation Inc: $80,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetHartford HealthCare Medical Group Inc: $71,366 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $65,431 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALS: $64,931 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNicklaus Children's Health Care Foundation: $60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLOBALGIVING FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOG STAR RESCUE INC: $49,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetKIDSANCTUARY CAMPUS INC: $45,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetSELF HELP AFRICA INC: $42,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCURE RARE DISEASE INC: $35,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetFARMINGTON FIRE DEPARTMENT INC: $33,203 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetTHE JOE AND KAY CALVANESE FOUNDATION INC: $32,500 over 6y, 13% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCasco Bay Bluefin Bonanza: $30,000 over 5y, 9.2% of budgetCAPLIN FAMILY CHARITIES INC: $30,000 over 3y, 5.5% of budgetGUIDING EYES FOR THE BLIND INC: $27,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT POLICE CHIEFS ASSOCIATION INC: $26,400 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISHER HOUSE INC: $25,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetNICOLE CARTIER MEMORIAL FUND INC: $25,000 over 1y, 32% of budgetMAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFOUNDATION FIGHTING BLINDNESS RETINAL DEGENERATION FUND: $23,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAMY'S ANGELS CORPORATION: $20,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT CHILDREN'S MEDICAL CENTER: $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVE A SUIT: $20,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetMASSACHUSETTS HUMANE SOCIETY INC: $17,772 over 1y, 31% of budgetADAMS COUNTY FARMERS MARKET ASSOCIATION INC: $16,633 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetELS FOR AUTISM FOUNDATION: $16,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $15,058 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURTON & PHYLLIS HOFFMAN FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetVETSVETERANS EXPLORING TREATMENT SOLUTIONS: $15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAvon Volunteer Fire Department Inc: $15,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetADOPT A PIG: $15,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetFDNY FOUNDATION INC: $14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTURION FOUNDATION INC: $13,573 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIREMAN'S BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION OF NEW HAVEN: $11,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetBELIEVE WITH ME INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetFETCHING HEARTS RESCUE CORP: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% 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.

Center for Technology…Hartford Foundation f…Amplify IncCapital Area Substanc…Community Foundation …Ion Bank Foundation I…Connecticut Humanitie…Arbella Insurance Fou…Lincoln Financial Fou…Aetna Foundation IncFor Inspiration and R…Chubb Charitable Foun…
Center for Technology and Civic LifeIL18.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 240%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from government →median 4%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
24get no government money at all
9report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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.
05Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Hometown Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Hometown Foundation Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 118 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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