· Public charity
The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc
To provide financial support to agencies and institutions whose programs serve at-risk children and families in fairfield county.
What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 72% of THE INNER-CITY FOUNDATION FOR CHARITY & EDUCATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $44,201 |
| STAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC | $23,626 |
| BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC | $23,626 |
| MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC | $23,626 |
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 (FY17–21, $874k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% 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.
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.
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.
41 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 38 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (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 FY2022, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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
- CCCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC5× · 2017–2021 · $474k · revenue +55%
- MLMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC6× · 2017–2022 · $353k · revenue +37%
- MHMALTA HOUSE INC5× · 2017–2021 · $315k · revenue +236%
Funded once
- BRBRIDGEPORT ROMAN CATHOLIC DIOCESAN CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $500k
- CACATHOLIC ACADEMY OF STAMFORD INCone grant, 2021 · $75k
- BCBRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $25k · revenue +92%
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.
Career resources, inc. offers jobseekers throughout connecticut, the training, support and resources needed to become employed and succeed in the workforce.
The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.
Positively impacting the lives of our clients and their communities by providing services that facilitate skill development, enhance responsible citizenship, and increase overall well-being.
Wfc is committed to promoting equity and to improving quality of life through services that foster empowerment and independence. our guiding vision: to be the leading agent for positive social change.
Journey home's mission is to ensure a home for all. we believe the most powerful way to do this is collectively - by working together with service providers, elected officials, businesses, and local communities to end homelessness in the…
Focus center for autism: helping children and adults with autism achieve their full potential.
Building safe, healthy, caring communities and inspiring people to reach their full potential as productive and valued citizens.
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…
Liberation programs' mission is to provide prevention, treatment, community outreach, and recovery services to help individuals and their families impacted by substance use and mental health conditions to foster hope and maintain wellness.
United way of connecticut is proud to be a trusted and vital resource for help and information about what the people of connecticut need. we respond to requests for food, housing, health care, child care, child development resources,…
See schedule oat cjr, we believe every young person should have the opportunity to thrive. our mission is to provide the necessary therapeutic treatment, education, and support for young people and their families to promote positive change…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Circle of Care for Families of Children With Cancer Inc. 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 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
66 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. 66 of the 74 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS INC ↗
- Who funds STAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ST CATHERINE CENTER FOR SPECIAL NEEDS INC ↗
- Who funds RENEWAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds PERSON TO PERSON INC ↗
- Who funds DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER ↗
- Who funds TODAY'S STUDENTS TOMORROW'S TEACHERS ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds HOMES WITH HOPE ↗
- Who funds EMERGE INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc ↗
- Who funds DOMUS KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT NEIGHBORHOOD TRUST ↗
- Who funds STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW REACH INC ↗
- Who funds PACIFIC HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
- Who funds LAUREL HOUSE INC ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts
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 Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education 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.
- The Child and Family Guidance Center Inc — 86% of income from government
- Laurel House Inc — 68% of income from government
- Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
- Children in Placement Inc — 47% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit — 35% of income from government
- Community Resources for Justice Inc — 34% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Village Inc — 32% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Emerge Inc — 30% of income from government
- Homes With Hope — 28% of income from government
- Human Services Council Inc — 27% of income from government
- Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- Barbaras House Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Sterling House Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 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.
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