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The James H Napier Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$130k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
23
Grants FY2024
29
Organizations funded FY2023
38%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$5,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$20,000
Organizations funded a year
21 to 29
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
2
Total assets, FY2024
$1.9M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 38% of the organizations The James H Napier Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $43k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
Youth DevelopmentHuman ServicesHealthFood & NutritionEnvironmentCommunity 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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving23$130k26%
FY202329$135k38%
FY202228$173k46%
FY202124$252k42%
FY202021$141kn/a
83% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Human Services$150kPhilanthropy$121kYouth Development$107kHealth$68kArts & Culture$61kHousing & Shelter$54kFood & Nutrition$30kRecreation & Sports$25kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 31 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($462k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The James H Napier Foundation supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetNew Opportunities Inc: $47,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc: $35,500 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetFriends of the Meriden Public Library Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetWomen and Families Center: $33,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetColumbus House Inc: $33,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMeriden Farmers Market Inc: $25,000 over 5y, 9.9% of budgetFranciscan Life Center Network Incorporated: $16,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUlbrich Boys and Girls Club Inc 2021 990: $10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetGirls Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMaster's Manna Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFlanders Nature Center & Land Trust Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Cove Center for Grieving Children Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Curtis Home: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBall Headz Inc: $8,500 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetMidstate Arc Inc: $7,700 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSocial Sabby Sponsorships Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetTricircle Corporation: $5,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetWorkforce Alliance Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClifford Beers Community Care Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBeat the Street Community Center Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetMeriden Historical Society Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetShine Your Light Ct Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetIn a Heartbeat Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNew Britain Museum of American Art Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRushford Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKuhn Employment Opportunities Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 28.

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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.

Ion Bank Foundation IncCT44.4× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Meriden Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of Meriden & Wallingford Inc · The John G Martin Foundation · American Savings Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Wadsworth Family Foundation · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

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.

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About The James H Napier Foundation

How much does The James H Napier Foundation give?
The James H Napier Foundation reported 23 grants totaling $129,800 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 21 and 29 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The James H Napier Foundation fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Philanthropy (15%), Youth Development (13%).
Who are The James H Napier Foundation's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: New Opportunities Inc ($48k), Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc ($36k), Friends of the Meriden Public Library Inc ($35k).
Does The James H Napier Foundation fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 38% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The James H Napier Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as The James H Napier Foundation?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Ion Bank Foundation Inc, Meriden Foundation, Liberty Bank Foundation Inc.
Where is The James H Napier Foundation based?
The James H Napier Foundation is based in MO.

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 61 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-PF 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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