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The Meriden-Wallingford Community Foundation

Organized to provide for the charitable wishes of donors who desire to establish long-term support primarily through meriden and wallingford charitable agencies.

$101k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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01What it funds
0182% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$200kYouth Development$101kReligion$98kHealth$56kArts & Culture$40kHuman Services$25kFood & Nutrition$20kCommunity Improvement$18kOther$0
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 6 grants below total $92,360, the rows itemized in this filing. The $100,949 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $8,589 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 $10k1 grant · $7k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $86k
$14,491
Median grant
1
States reached
$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VARIOUS GRANTS 5000 EACH$24,574
CITY MISSION$19,503
FRED ULBRICH FUND$14,491
MW UNITED WAY FUND$14,271
PHILLIP AND JANE ASHTON FUND$12,921
MW DG NAIMOLI FUND$6,600
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$354k · 5 repeat orgs$308k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
12

Total granted

$354k
$216k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+1%
+86%

Still filing today

40%
25%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $92k went to new ones.

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

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

’17’18’19’20’22’23’25
PhilanthropyHuman ServicesEnvironmentOther
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

  • UW
    UNITED WAY OF MERIDEN & WALLINGFORD INC
    5× · 2017–2022 · $112k · revenue +1%
  • MC
    MERIDEN CITY MISSION
    5× · 2017–2022 · $98k
  • MB
    MERIDEN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    5× · 2017–2022 · $86k

Funded once

  • CH
    CT HEALTH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · $56k
  • JL
    J Lieberman Family Foundation Inc
    one grant, 2020 · $40k · revenue -41794%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2020 · $17k
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
04the grantee network

6 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 6 of the 23 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/6
Grantees still filing
3/6
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MERIDEN CITY MISSION: $97,650 · OtherMERIDEN CITY MISSIONMERIDEN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB: $86,317 · OtherMERIDEN BOYS & GIRLS CLUBCT HEALTH FOUNDATION: $56,067 · OtherCT HEALTH FOUNDATIONFRED ULBRICH MEMORIAL FD: $40,195 · OtherFRED ULBRICH MEMORIAL FDVARIOUS GRANTS 5000 EACH: $24,574 · OtherMIDSTATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $17,800 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $17,201 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $15,980 · Other+10 more: $109,911 · Other+10 moreUNITED WAY OF MERIDEN & WALLINGFORD INC: $111,622 · PhilanthropyUNITED WAY OF MERIDEN & W…J Lieberman Family Foundation Inc: $39,800 · PhilanthropyJ Lieberman Family Founda…City Mission: $19,503 · Human ServicesMERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesEAST HADDAM LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 · Environment
Other$465,695Philanthropy$151,422Human Services$34,503Environment$10,000

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetUNITED WAY OF MERIDEN & WALLINGFORD INC: $111,622 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetCity Mission: $19,503 over 1y, 14% of budgetMIDSTATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC: $17,800 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetMERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEAST HADDAM LAND TRUST INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.1% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF MERIDEN & WALLINGFORD INC ↗
  • Who funds J Lieberman Family Foundation Inc ↗
  • Who funds City Mission ↗
  • Who funds MIDSTATE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE INC ↗
  • Who funds MERIDEN-NEW BRITAIN-BERLIN YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
  • Who funds EAST HADDAM LAND TRUST INC ↗

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.

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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 Meriden-Wallingford Community Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Meriden-Wallingford Community Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 10%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%4%8%11%15%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 7% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–15%
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.
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Find your warmest path to The Meriden-Wallingford Community Foundation 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 23 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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