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The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc

The organization sponsors college scholarships to graduates of southington high school and also contributes to other charitable organizations.

$97k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
4
Itemized grants FY2024
4
Organizations funded FY2023
0%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Itemized, FY2024
$49k
The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
Median grant, FY2024
$12,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$13,616
Organizations funded a year
2 to 5
FY2017 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
1
Total assets, FY2024
$619k

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

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

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23
PhilanthropyArts & CultureOther
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 arriving4$49k25%
FY20234$37k0%
FY20223$37k0%
FY20212$27k50%
FY20203$34k33%
FY20195$44k60%
FY20183$25k33%
FY20174$50kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$103kEducation$55kCommunity Improvement$54kFood & Nutrition$51kAnimals$20kPublic Benefit$12kPhilanthropy$8kArts & Culture$7k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA$83,22570%
Southington Rotary Trust$53,900431%
Friends of Southington Community Services$36,890410%
Southington Public Schools$32,6103n/a
The Salvation Army$20,0152n/a
The Hometown Foundation Inc$20,00020%
Bread for Life Inc$13,78722%
Southington Public Library$12,3881n/a
Southington Community Cultural Arts Inc$6,64012%

Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($22k), not named here.

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.

Bradley Henry Barnes and Leila Barnes Memorial Trust C/O Main Street CommunityCT15.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Bradley Henry Barnes and Leila Barnes Memorial Trust C/O Main Street Community · Community Foundation of Greater New Britain · Main Street Community Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile 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.

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How do I get to The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to The Joe and Kay Calvanese 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.

About The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc

How much does The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc give?
The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc reported 4 itemized grants totaling $48,504, out of $97,120 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 5 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
What does The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (33%), Education (18%), Community Improvement (17%).
Who are The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Southington-Cheshire Community YMCA ($83k), Southington Rotary Trust ($54k), Friends of Southington Community Services ($37k).
Does The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Bradley Henry Barnes and Leila Barnes Memorial Trust C/O Main Street Community, Community Foundation of Greater New Britain, Main Street Community Foundation Inc.
Where is The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc based?
The Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Inc is based in CT.

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 12 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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