· 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Asylum Hill Congregational Church | $10,000 |
| The Village for Families Children | $10,000 |
| Connecticut Foodshare | $10,000 |
| Community St Vincent and the Grenad | $3,000 |
| Asylum Hill Congregational Church | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 26% of The Nutmeg Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 96% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 91%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +46% since the first grant, against +34% for those 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
How this is measured
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
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $30k
- TOTHE OPEN HEARTH ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2024 · $30k · revenue 0%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. 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.
How this is measured
35 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. 35 of the 54 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 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 THE BRIDGE FAMILY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CAREER RESOURCES INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds KNOX INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR URBAN RESEARCH EDUCATION AND TRAINING 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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Nutmeg Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Nutmeg Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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