· Private foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k21 grants · $100k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY OF MERIDAN - WALLINGFORD | $20,000 |
| GIRLS' INC | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $8,000 |
| MERIDEN - WALLINGFORD CAMPERSHIP | $6,900 |
| WOMEN & FAMILIES CENTER | $6,000 |
| FLANDER'S NATURE CENTER & LAND TRUST | $5,200 |
| CT FOODSHARE | $5,100 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC | $5,000 |
| LVGNH | $5,000 |
| COLUMBUS HOUSE | $5,000 |
| MERIDEN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED | $5,000 |
| BEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
| BIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT | $5,000 |
| CLIFFORD BEERS COMMUNITY CARE CENTER INC | $5,000 |
| COVE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN INC | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $49k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 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.
32 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 6 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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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
- NONEW OPPORTUNITIES INC4× · 2020–2023 · $48k · revenue +13%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC4× · 2021–2024 · $36k · revenue +156%
- CHCOLUMBUS HOUSE INC5× · 2020–2024 · $33k · revenue +17%
Funded once
- TCTHE CURTIS HOMEone grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +12%
- UBUlbrich Boys and Girls Club Inc 2021 990one grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue 0%
- ASAUTISM SERVICES & RESOURCES CTone grant, 2022 · $10k
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 substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Programs for children with special needs.
Our mission is to help people to help themselves by contributing to the more efficient functioning of todays labor market by providing high quality employment and training.
The life center, inc. operates residential centers and conducts outreach helping persons adversely affected by substance abuse find drug free productive and meaningful lives.
To provide quality services to meet selected needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the greater new haven region.
To support and strengthen the youth and families of westbrook, ct through coordinating and providing a comprehensive delivery system of prevention, intervention, treatment, and follow up services
Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.
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…
Fca is a community-based behavioral health center that offers innovation, responsive and traditional mental health care and services for children, adolescents, adults and their families.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Midstate Arc Inc and the most unlike its peers is Beat the Street Community Center 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 42 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 61 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 NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MERIDEN INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE MERIDEN PUBLIC LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN AND FAMILIES CENTER ↗
- Who funds COLUMBUS HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds MERIDEN FARMERS MARKET INC ↗
- Who funds FRANCISCAN LIFE CENTER NETWORK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE CURTIS HOME ↗
- Who funds Ulbrich Boys and Girls Club Inc 2021 990 ↗
- Who funds Master's Manna Inc ↗
- Who funds Flanders Nature Center & Land Trust Inc ↗
- Who funds GIRLS INC ↗
- Who funds The Cove Center for Grieving Children Inc ↗
- Who funds Ball Headz Inc ↗
- Who funds MIDSTATE ARC INC ↗
- Who funds BEAT THE STREET COMMUNITY CENTER 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: 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
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 James H Napier Foundation 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.
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Midstate Arc Inc — 94% of income from government
- Kuhn Employment Opportunities Inc — 91% of income from government
- Workforce Alliance Inc — 77% of income from government
- Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc — 75% of income from government
- New Opportunities Inc — 70% of income from government
- Tricircle Corporation — 43% of income from government
- The Curtis Home — 41% of income from government
- Rushford Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- Beat the Street Community Center Inc — 24% of income from government
- Meriden Farmers Market Inc — 22% of income from government
- Ball Headz Inc — 20% of income from government
- Women and Families Center — 18% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Meriden Inc — 10% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Shine Your Light Ct Inc — 1% of income from government
- Social Sabby Sponsorships Inc — 0% of income from government
- Franciscan Life Center Network Incorporated — 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.