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The Prosperity Foundation Inc

Cultivate and grow black communities in connecticut through capacity-building solutions.

$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$471k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2023 to 2024.

Community Improvement$1.1MYouth Development$423kHuman Services$254kEnvironment$157kEducation$155kReligion$116kRecreation & Sports$100kCrime & Legal$65kOther$0
02FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 54 grants below total $1,984,624, the rows itemized in this filing. The $2,212,133 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $227,509 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 · FY2024

  • Under $10k3 grants · $22k
  • $10k–50k46 grants · $763k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $350k
  • $250k+2 grants · $850k
$17,500
Median grant
2
States reached
$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BLUE HILLS CIVIC$471,000
HARTFORD RENAIS$378,624
EFFICIENCY FOR ALL INC$150,000
GREATER HARTFORD YMCA$100,000
OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC$100,000
ST MATTHEWS UFWB CHURCH$25,000
LIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY DEV CORP$25,000
EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC$22,500
HOT SHOT SERVICESHOT SHOT BASKETBALL CAMP$22,500
JAMES HILLHOUSE HIGH SCHOOL BROWN GIRLS COOKING$22,500
ELM CITY GO KARTING ASSOCIATION$22,500
FIXING FATHERS INC$22,500
DESTINED TO SUCCEED INC$21,163
ABRAHAM'S PROMISE INC$20,000
CPEN$20,000
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY23–24, $460k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 16%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 16%FAMILY ESSENTIALS NETWORK INC: $13k → 11%OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $100k → 11%NEW HAVEN PROMISE: $19k → 12%QUEEN ANN NZINGA CENTER: $13k → 11%QUEEN ANN NZINGA CENTER INC: $13k → 11%NEW HAVEN PROMISE: $19k → 12%QUEEN ANN NZINGA CENTER: $13k → 11%FIXING FATHERS INC: $23k → 12%FIXING FATHERS INC: $23k → 12%GREATER HARTFORD YMCA: $100k → 11%PROPSERITY HOUSE INC: $20k → 12%PROPSERITY HOUSE INC: $20k → 12%COMMUNITIES FOR GENERATIONS INC: $18k → 12%COMMUNITIES FOR GENERATIONS INC: $18k → 12%READY INC: $20k → 12%READY INC: $20k → 12%QUEEN ANN NZINGA CENTER INC: $13k → 12%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.
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.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 91% of The Prosperity Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 100% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 19%.

The Prosperity Foundation Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

59%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.5M · 26 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +15% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.

26 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 17 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
17

Total granted

$1.5M
$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+15%
0%

Still filing today

62%
47%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.

50%100%’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’23’24
Human ServicesEducationYouth DevelopmentCommunity ImprovementEnvironmentCrime & LegalOther
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

  • BH
    BLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · $516k · revenue +132%
  • EC
    EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +15%
  • FF
    Fixing Fathers One Dad At A Time Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $45k · revenue +30%

Funded once

  • HR
    HARTFORD RENAISSANCE DISTRICT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2024 · $379k · 97% of their budget
  • EF
    EFFICIENCY FOR ALL
    one grant, 2024 · $150k · revenue 0%
  • YM
    YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC
    one grant, 2024 · $100k · 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.

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
Center for Urban Research Education and Training Inc

Providing programs and services to city of Hartford and its surrounding communities

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2
Urban Fresh Gardens Inc

Urban Fresh Gardens is a non-profit urban farm and education center dedicated to teaching tangible and intangible skills to youths ages 14 to 18. Program participants are provided with an opportunity to learn transferable life skills,…

Education
3
New Day Employment

Youth Resiliency Program is a 6-8 week bootcamp that teaches soft skills for successful living. It utilitzes a curriculum that guides youth away from negative behavior patterns and towards positivity.

Employment
4
King Hoops United

Empower the youth of new york city through basketball, providing them with academic enrichment, career development, and a strong sense of community to unlock their full potential

Youth Development
5
Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc

Leap empowers young people to be leaders who create a nurturing community for children in need. we believe that families in all neighborhoods deserve access to learning opportunities that inspire a broad world view and encourage young…

Education
6
Prime Youth Program
Unclassified
7
Youth Soccer Association of New Haven Inc

Develop local youth in soccer skills and team play

—
8
Creative Youth Productions Inc

Creative Youth Productions Inc CYP mission is to develop youth leaders through the performing arts. CYP is committed to using the youth's voice organizationally, programmatically and creatively. CYP's goal is to acquire leadership,…

Youth Development
9
Pursuit of Prosperity Strategies Program Inc

Working with trouble youth

Youth Development
10
Youth Empowerment Project Inc

Enrichment and youth outreach

—
11
Made Wright Inc

community and workplace development

Community Improvement
12
Full Circle Youth Empowerment Inc

To holistically empower, support, and encourage marginalized youth, in Fairfield County, Connecticut, to become self-sufficient and successfully transition into adulthood.

Youth Development
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Communities for Generations Inc; the most unlike its peers is Sons of Thunder. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

26 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. 26 of the 43 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
12/26
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $516,000 · Community ImprovementBLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATIONHARTFORD RENAISSANCE DISTRICT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $378,624 · Community ImprovementHARTFORD RENAISSANCE DISTRICT COMMUNITY D…WLM MINISTRIES INC: $75,000 · OtherWLM MINISTRIES INCELM CITY GO KARTING ASSOCIATION INC: $45,000 · OtherELM CITY GO KARTING ASSOCIATI…CULTURALLY CORRECT CREATIVE INC: $40,000 · OtherCULTURALLY CORRECT CREATIVE I…FIREBIRDS SOCIETY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $40,000 · OtherFIREBIRDS SOCIETY OF GREATER …STREET2STRAIGHT PROGRAM INC: $40,000 · OtherSTREET2STRAIGHT PROGRAM INCCPEN-COMMUNITY PLACEMAKING ENGAGEMENT NETWORK: $40,000 · OtherCPEN-COMMUNITY PLACEMAKING EN…ABRAHAMS PROMISE INC: $40,000 · OtherABRAHAMS PROMISE INCTHA BRIDGE CORP: $30,823 · OtherST MATTHEW UFW BAPTIST CHURCH: $25,000 · OtherLove Your Menses Inc: $25,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $25,000 · OtherTRAINING AND MOTIVATION COMPANY: $25,000 · OtherWINNING WAYS: $25,000 · OtherLIGHTHOUSE COMMUNITY DEV CORP: $25,000 · OtherPROVERBS: $22,500 · OtherJAMES HILLHOUSE HIGH SCHOOL BROWN GIRLS COOKING: $22,500 · OtherEIR Urban Youth Boxing Inc: $30,000 · Other+4 more: $60,800 · Other+4 moreYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN…OUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $100,000 · Human ServicesOUR PIECE OF THE PIE …READY INC: $52,500 · Human ServicesREADY INCFixing Fathers One Dad At A Time Inc: $45,000 · Human ServicesFixing Fathers One Da…Prosperity House Inc: $40,000 · Human ServicesProsperity House IncQUEEN ANN NZINGA CENTER INC: $37,543 · Human ServicesQUEEN ANN NZINGA CENT…NEW HAVEN PROMISE INC: $37,324 · Human ServicesNEW HAVEN PROMISE INCCOMMUNITIES FOR GENERATIONS INC: $35,000 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITIES FOR GENER…+1 more: $12,500 · Human ServicesURISE VENTURES INC: $40,000 · EducationHIGHER HEIGHTS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $36,000 · EducationResurgence Now Inc: $35,000 · EducationFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC: $35,000 · EducationMPact Mentoring Inc: $32,875 · EducationEFFICIENCY FOR ALL: $150,000 · EnvironmentHUNEEBEE PROJECT INC: $13,728 · EnvironmentD E S T I N E D TO SUCCEED INC: $42,326 · Youth DevelopmentHartford Lions Soccer Academy: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentSONS OF THUNDER: $25,000 · Youth DevelopmentEMERGE CONNECTICUT INC: $45,000 · Crime & Legal
Community Improvement$894,624Other$636,623Human Services$459,867Education$178,875Environment$163,728Youth Development$92,326Crime & Legal$45,000

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBLUE HILLS CIVIC ASSOCIATION: $516,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetHARTFORD RENAISSANCE DISTRICT COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $378,624 over 1y, 97% of budgetEFFICIENCY FOR ALL: $150,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC: $100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOUR PIECE OF THE PIE INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetREADY INC: $52,500 over 2y, 32% of budgetEMERGE CONNECTICUT INC: $45,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetFixing Fathers One Dad At A Time Inc: $45,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetProsperity House Inc: $40,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetURISE VENTURES INC: $40,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetQUEEN ANN NZINGA CENTER INC: $37,543 over 2y, 16% of budgetNEW HAVEN PROMISE INC: $37,324 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHIGHER HEIGHTS YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $36,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetResurgence Now Inc: $35,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetCOMMUNITIES FOR GENERATIONS INC: $35,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetFAITHACTS FOR EDUCATION INC: $35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetMPact Mentoring Inc: $32,875 over 2y, 22% of budgetEIR Urban Youth Boxing Inc: $30,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetLove Your Menses Inc: $25,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetSONS OF THUNDER: $25,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetWINNING WAYS: $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE WORKPLACE INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHUNEEBEE PROJECT INC: $13,728 over 2y, 3.4% 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.

The Community Foundat…United Way of Greater…Newalliance Foundatio…William Caspar Graust…Hartford Foundation f…Yale UniversityGovernor's Partnershi…J Walton Bissell Foun…Liberty Bank Foundati…The Bank of America C…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
The Community Foundation for Greater New HavenCT29.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Yale University · Governor's Partnership to Protect Connecticut's Workforce Inc · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation 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 Prosperity Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Prosperity Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 41%
  • The Workplace Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Efficiency for All: 82% of income from government
  • Blue Hills Civic Association: 72% of income from government
  • Communities for Generations Inc: 66% of income from government
  • Emerge Connecticut Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Ready Inc: 41% of income from government
  • MPact Mentoring Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Our Piece of the Pie Inc: 21% of income from government
  • Huneebee Project Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Queen Ann Nzinga Center Inc: 3% of income from government
  • New Haven Promise Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
2report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely on government for over half their income
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 Prosperity Foundation Inc 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 43 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 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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