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The Proctor Foundation

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.

$3k
Granted FY2025still arriving
18
Grants FY2025still arriving
9
States reached
$1k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Human Services$8kEducation$6kInternational$4kArts & Culture$2kYouth Development$2kHealth$1kReligion$850Civil Rights$800Other$0
02FY2025 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$100
Median grant
9
States reached
$115k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TRUMBULL SENIOR CENTER$1,000
CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST$100
HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL$100
THE SALVATION ARMY OF BRIDGEPORT$100
WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY$100
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS$100
MOZAIC SENIOR LIFE$100
HILLEL INTERNATIONAL$100
ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL$100
AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND$100
THE BOWERY MISSION$100
NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY$100
AMERICAN LUNGS ASSOCIATION$100
BRYANT UNIVERSITY$100
AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL$100
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 24% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $200 → 16%NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY: $100 → 17%PLANNED PARENTHOOD: $100 → 28%CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $200 → 14%ST LUKE FOUNDATION FOR HAITI: $600 → 15%JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES: $600 → 9%CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 → 11%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $300 → 12%WCPSS PLEASANT GROVE ELEMENTARY PTA: $3k → 8%BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $300 → 14%HABITAT FOR HUMANITY: $100 → 13%AMERICAN LUNGS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 14%REFUGIO DE GLOIA CHURCH: $100 → 16%AMERICAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION INTERNATIONAL: $100 → 7%ST JOSEPH'S INDIAN SCHOOL: $100 → 15%PARTNERS IN HEALTH: $1k → 6%AMERICAN KIDNEY FUND: $100 → 8%DAV: $300 → 10%WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY: $100 → 16%PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA: $250 → 17%CENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $100 → 14%JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES: $300 → 9%AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL: $500 → 11%ANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $200 → 12%PLEASANT GROVE FOUNDATION (FOR THE DREAM ACADEMY): $1k → 8%BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $200 → 14%AMERICAN LUNGS ASSOCIATION: $100 → 14%JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES: $300 → 9%AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL: $500 → 11%JEWISH SENIOR SERVICES: $300 → 9%AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL: $500 → 11%LIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $1k → 17%AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL: $300 → 11%AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL: $200 → 11%AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL: $200 → 11%WMNR - FINE ARTS RADIO: $200 → 9%TRUMBULL SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 9%TRUMBULL SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 9%TRUMBULL SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 9%TRUMBULL SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 9%TRUMBULL SENIOR CENTER: $1k → 9%TRUMBULL SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 9%TRUMBULL SENIOR CENTER: $500 → 9%TRUMBULL EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES ASSOCIATION: $500 → 9%MAKE A WISH CONNECTICUT: $200 → 9%AMERICARES: $1k → 9%STRATFORD YMCA: $500 → 9%STRATFORD YMCA: $500 → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

IL
NY
MA
SD
NJ
CT
RI
CO
KY
VA
MD
NC
DC
GA
FL
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$19k · 22 repeat orgs$11k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +41% since the first grant, against +23% for those funded once.

22 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
22

Total granted

$19k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+41%
+23%

Still filing today

73%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
InternationalHealthEducationReligionCivil RightsAnimalsOther
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

  • AO
    AVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC
    6× · 2019–2024 · $2k · revenue +53%
  • JH
    JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC
    5× · 2020–2025 · $2k · revenue +33%
  • MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC
    5× · 2019–2025 · $900 · revenue +79%

Funded once

  • WP
    WCPSS PLEASANT GROVE ELEMENTARY PTA
    one grant, 2018 · $3k
  • PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +120%
  • LG
    LIGHTHOUSE GUILD
    one grant, 2017 · $1k
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

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.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
International Aids Vaccine Initiative Inc

A nonprofit scientific research organization that develops vaccines and antibodies for hiv, tuberculosis, and emerging infectious diseases.

International
3
New York University

Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.

Education
4
Banner -University Medical Group

Assist banner health complete its mission to make health care easier so life can be better by providing integrated & coordinated care & population health management.

Health
5
University Associates in Obstetrics and Gynecology University Faculty Pract ice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
8
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
9
University of Hartford

Dedicated to learning, personal growth, knowledge creation, and the betterment of society. the university engages students in aquiring the knowledge, skills, and values necessary to thrive in and contribute to a pluralistic, complex world.

Education
10
Highmark Health

As the parent entity of a blended health organization, highmark health seeks to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities it serves by providing affordable, accessible and high-quality healthcare.

Health
11
Clinton Health Access Initiative Inc

For over 20 years, chai's mission has been to save lives and improve health outcomes in low-and middle-income countries around the world. we do this by enabling the government and private sector to strengthen and sustain quality health…

International
12
Stony Brook Surgical Associates University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medecins Sans Frontieres Usa Inc; the most unlike its peers is Wpkn Incorporated. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

28 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 28 of the 50 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/28
Grantees still filing
21/28
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TRUMBULL SENIOR CENTER: $6,000 · OtherTRUMBULL SENIOR CENTERWCPSS PLEASANT GROVE ELEMENTARY PTA: $2,800 · OtherWCPSS PLEASANT GROVE ELEMENTARY PTALIGHTHOUSE GUILD: $1,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE GUILDIndividual grant recipient: $1,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipientPLEASANT GROVE FOUNDATION (FOR THE DREAM ACADEMY): $1,000 · OtherPLEASANT GROVE FOUNDATION (FOR THE DREAM ACADEMY)WMNR - FINE ARTS RADIO: $600 · OtherUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $600 · Other+23 more: $4,025 · Other+23 moreAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $2,200 · EducationAVON OLD FARMS S…BRYANT UNIVERSITY: $800 · EducationBRYANT UNIVERSIT…WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $700 · EducationWENTWORTH INSTIT…SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $600 · EducationSACRED HEART UNI…JEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1,600 · HealthJEWISH HOME F…PARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 · HealthPARTNERS IN H…AMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $400 · HealthAMERICAN LUNG…PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $350 · HealthPLANNED PAREN…BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $200 · HealthBRIDGEPORT HO…+1 more: $100 · HealthAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 · InternationalAMERICARES…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $900 · InternationalMEDECINS S…THE ST LUKE FOUNDATION FOR HAITI: $600 · InternationalTHE ST LUK…WATERAID AMERICA INC: $200 · InternationalWATERAID A…HELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $100 · InternationalOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $100 · InternationalHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $650 · ReligionChristian Herald Association Inc: $100 · ReligionANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $700 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $600 · Food & Nutrition
Other$17,025Education$4,300Health$3,650International$2,900Religion$750Civil Rights$700Food & Nutrition$600

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetAVON OLD FARMS SCHOOL INC: $2,200 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HOME FOR THE ELDERLY OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $1,600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $900 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRYANT UNIVERSITY: $800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetANTI-DEFAMATION LEAGUE: $700 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY INC: $700 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHILLEL THE FOUNDATION FOR JEWISH CAMPUS LIFE: $650 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ST LUKE FOUNDATION FOR HAITI: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTER FOR SCIENCE IN THE PUBLIC INTEREST: $600 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED JEWISH APPEAL-FEDERATION OF JEWISH PHILANTHROPIES OF NEW YORK INC: $600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWPKN Incorporated: $500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN LUNG ASSOCIATION: $400 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC: $350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN KIDNEY FUND INC: $200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY INC: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDisabled American Veterans: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHELEN KELLER INTERNATIONAL: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristian Herald Association Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOXFAM-AMERICA INC: $100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Pfizer Foundation…Morgan Stanley Global…Vanguard Charitable E…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT13.5× affinity4 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · 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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Proctor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Proctor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%10%20%30%40%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
  • Wpkn Incorporated: 2% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
  • Wentworth Institute of Technology Inc: 1% of income from government
  • Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield County Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation: 0% of income from government
  • Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–40%
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.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to The Proctor Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Proctor 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 50 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-PF 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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