· Private foundation
The Milford Bank Foundation Inc
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 FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EMERGE INC | $2,500 |
| STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| BRIDGES HEALTHCARE INC | $2,380 |
| UNITED WAY OF MILFORD | $2,000 |
| LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTHERN CT | $1,755 |
| STRATFORD VNA | $1,500 |
| TEAM INC | $1,500 |
| WEST HAVEN PREVENTION COUNCIL | $1,000 |
| PANTOCHINO PRODUCTIONS | $1,000 |
| STRATFORD LIBRARY ASSOC | $1,000 |
| STRATFORD VETERANS MUSEUM | $1,000 |
| STRATFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
| STRATFORD FORWARD | $1,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MILFORD | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–24, $26k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 31% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +66% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.
41 repeat relationships — 20 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 5 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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
- TSTHE STOREHOUSE PROJECT INC3× · 2017–2023 · $27k · revenue ×23
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MILFORD INC8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +129%
- SHSTERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC8× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- MAMILFORD ARTS COUNCILone grant, 2022 · $4k
- WIWHEAT INCone grant, 2022 · $2k · revenue -6%
- OVORANGE VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTone grant, 2022 · $2k
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.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
The purpose of the organization is to provide quality childcare for children living in the state of connecticut.
A safe, loving, and inclusive learning community where children, families, and staff feel welcome, accepted, and supported and where individuals are empowered to contribute their unique experiences and interests.
To provide child care for the youth of stratford, tx.
To enhance the care, education, and development of Connecticut's young children, in the context of family, and community; and to support the professionals who care for them. CTAEYC provides training to increase the competencies of…
Represent all teachers in milford school district.
The miracle league of ct provides opportunities for connecticut's children with physical and cognitive challenges to participate in baseball and other activities in an accessible, nurturing and noncompetitive environment where families can…
Annual summer festival held in Branford, CT.
Girls on the Run Greater Connecticut inspires girls to be joyful, healthy, and confident using a fun, experience-based curriculum integrating social-emotional learning, life skills, and physical activity to enhance a girl's social,…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridges Healthcare Inc and the most unlike its peers is Junior Major League 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 30 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) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
36 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. 36 of the 99 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 UNITED WAY OF MILFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE STOREHOUSE PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF MILFORD INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE INC ↗
- Who funds LITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT ↗
- Who funds BETH-EL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGES HEALTHCARE INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD VISITING NURSE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Milford Historical Society Incorporated ↗
- Who funds WHEAT INC ↗
- Who funds BRAKETTES INC ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF MILFORD INC ↗
- Who funds THE GET IN TOUCH FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds THE PERRY HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STRATFORD LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
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: United Way of Milford Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Meisenheimer Foundation Inc · The Fb Heron Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Network for Good · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund
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 Milford Bank Foundation 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.
- Boys & Girls Club of Milford Inc — 88% of income from government
- Team Inc — 84% of income from government
- Bridges Healthcare Inc — 67% of income from government
- Emerge Inc — 30% of income from government
- Beth-El Center Inc — 23% of income from government
- Sterling House Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
- Rape Crisis Center of Milford Inc — 6% of income from government
- United Way of Milford Inc — 6% of income from government
- Wheat Inc — 3% of income from government
- Orange Volunteer Fire Assoc Inc — 2% of income from government
- Good Child Development Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Down Syndrome Association of Connec — 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.
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