· Private foundation
The Nutmeg Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 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 FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k8 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $136k
- $50k–250k6 grants · $525k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Way of Central Northeastern | $125,000 |
| Chrysalis Center | $100,000 |
| Hartford Interval House | $100,000 |
| Hartford Public Library | $100,000 |
| Katherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Ctr | $50,000 |
| Community St Vincent and the Grenad | $50,000 |
| Pro Bono Partnership | $36,000 |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporati | $30,000 |
| Journey Home | $20,000 |
| Hands On Hartford | $20,000 |
| The Village for Families Children | $10,000 |
| Connecticut Foodshare | $10,000 |
| Asylum Hill Congregational Church | $10,000 |
| Asylum Hill Congregational Church | $3,000 |
| Community St Vincent and the Grenad | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $156k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 26% of The Nutmeg Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 91% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +46% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (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 FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k 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
- HIHARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC5× · 2017–2025 · $203k · revenue +108%
- HPHARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY4× · 2018–2025 · $185k · revenue +22%
- CCCHRYSALIS CENTER INC4× · 2017–2025 · $173k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- CCCT Coalition Against Domestic Violeone grant, 2021 · $31k
- TOTHE OPEN HEARTH ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
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 grow the local economy and improve economic stability in all communities by providing employers with a trained and qualified workforce and connecting residents to jobs.
The connecticut housing coalition works to expand housing opportunity and to increase the quantity and quality of affordable housing available to people with low and moderate incomes in connecticut through advocacy, education and…
Community action agency of new haven, inc. offers pathways to prosperity to those in poverty in the greater new haven area through: service - collaboration - advocacy - knowledge generation.
To provide medical services for the residents of the greater hartford connecticut area. to provide quality health care services to low and moderate income individuals in the greater hartford connecticut area regardless of ability to pay.
To compete aggressively and successfully for jobs, talent and capital.
The connecticut project, a 501c3 organization, brings together people, ideas, and resources to build opportunity.
EWIB efficiently coordinates employment-related services in concert with a multitude of state and local agencies at benefit to both businesses and job-seekers. These services offer new opportunities and/or skills to the regional workforce,…
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
To promote and enhance the city of hartford by providing uniformed guides who provide information and assistance to the public in the downtown and other areas of hartford.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Partners in Action Inc and the most unlike its peers is Center for Urban Research Education and Training 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 37 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% 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.
35 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. 35 of the 54 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 HARTFORD INTERVAL HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHRYSALIS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds LOCAL INITIATIVES SUPPORT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL WORKFORCE PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds JOURNEY HOME INC ↗
- Who funds The Katharine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center Inc ↗
- Who funds GOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds HANDS ON HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
- Who funds THE OPEN HEARTH ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds COMPASS YOUTH COLLABORATIVE ↗
- Who funds FORGE CITY WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE OF CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds KENEY PARK SUSTAINABILITY PROJECT ↗
- Who funds iQuilt Partnership Inc ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN LEAGUE OF GREATER HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD PROMISE INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF THE FARMINGTON VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD ARTISANS WEAVING 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Aetna Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · Capital Workforce Partners Inc
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 Nutmeg 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.
- IQuilt Partnership Inc — 100% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Community Partners in Action Inc — 90% of income from government
- The Arc of the Farmington Valley Inc — 86% of income from government
- Capital Workforce Partners Inc — 86% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Journey Home Inc — 59% of income from government
- The Open Hearth Association — 59% of income from government
- Community Solutions Inc — 55% of income from government
- Keney Park Sustainability Project — 37% of income from government
- Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Our Piece of the Pie Inc — 21% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc — 14% of income from government
- Compass Youth Collaborative — 13% of income from government
- Urban League of Greater Hartford Inc — 8% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Knox Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hartford Artisans Weaving Center Inc — 1% of income from government
- Forge City Works Inc — 1% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 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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