· Private foundation
The Putnam Area Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k27 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $15,000 |
| WOODSTOCK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| THEATER OF NORTHEASTERN CT | $10,000 |
| TOWN OF PUTNAM (MURAL ART PROJECT) | $10,000 |
| COMMUNITY CULTURAL COMMITTEE NECT | $5,500 |
| HALE YMCA YOUTH & FAMILY CENTER | $5,000 |
| JOLLY JOHN'S KEEP ON TRUCKIN FUND | $5,000 |
| TOWN OF PUTNAM (RECREATIONAL DEPT) | $5,000 |
| TRUSTEES OF ROSELAND PARK | $5,000 |
| DAILY BREAD FOOD PANTRY | $3,200 |
| NORTHEAST CT EDUCATION FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| QVCC FOUNDATION INC | $2,500 |
| QUIET CORNER GARDEN CLUB | $2,500 |
| TOWN OF PUTNAM (ARTS COUNCIL) | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,800 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
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 +19% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
45 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 16 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $38k 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
- TLTHE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC THE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC6× · 2018–2024 · $24k · revenue +28%
- QFQVCC FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $21k · revenue +3%
- UCUNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC4× · 2018–2022 · $20k · revenue +19%
Funded once
- WAWOODSTOCK ACADEMY FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -77%
- TTEEGone grant, 2024 · $9k
- NPNORTHEAST PLACEMENT SERVICES INCone grant, 2022 · $7k · revenue +19%
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.
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
The Newtown Forest Association is the oldest private land trust organization in Connecticut. It has been dedicated for one hundred years to securing for the residents of Newtown and for posterity generally the benefits derived from open…
The purpose of the association is to provide for the protection and general welfare of the residents and owners of real property in the northeastern section of greenwich, connecticut, including the preservation of the residential character…
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.
The Noah Webster House Inc. preserves, interprets, and champions Noah Websters legacy and birthplace, as well as the evolving history of West Hartford, the town that nurtured him.
The mission of VNA Home, Inc. is to provide short-term or long-term non-medical home care services to people who reside in the greater New Milford, Connecticut area.
The western connecticut area agency on aging, inc. (wcaaa) develops, manages and provides comprehensive services through person centered planning for seniors, caregivers and individuals with disabilities in order to maintain their…
To provide non-medical in home services to aging and disabled adults and to collaborate with other area providers to prevent premature institutional placement and to promote quality of life.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Quiet Corner Cares. 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 35 years old; the field is 22. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 17% startups (under 5 years old) — 7% of your grantees by number, and just 6% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 9% 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 83 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 TRUSTEES OF ROSELAND PARK ↗
- Who funds THE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC THE LAST GREEN VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds QVCC FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED COMMUNITY AND FAMILY SERVICESINC ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Daily Bread An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK ACADEMY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPINOCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF PUTNAM INC ↗
- Who funds INTERFAITH HUMAN SERVICES OF PUTNAM ↗
- Who funds NORTHEAST PLACEMENT SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Natchaug Hospital Inc ↗
- Who funds WINDHAM COUNTY 4-H FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Arc of Quinebaug Valley Inc ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds Day Kimball Healthcare Inc ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds BUNGAY FIRE BRIGADE ↗
- Who funds THE NORWICH FREE ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds WOODSTOCK ACADEMY ↗
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: Jewett City Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Newell D Hale Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Inc · R S Gernon Trust · Ossen Family Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts
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 Putnam Area Foundation 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.
- Northeast Placement Services Inc — 99% of income from government
- United Services Inc — 74% of income from government
- The Last Green Valley Inc the Last Green Valley Inc — 72% of income from government
- Martin House Inc — 53% of income from government
- United Community and Family Servicesinc — 29% of income from government
- Thompson Ecumenical Empowerment Group Inc — 24% of income from government
- Madonna Place Inc — 20% of income from government
- Safe Futures Inc — 15% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Natchaug Hospital Inc — 11% of income from government
- Woodstock Academy — 3% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
- Day Kimball Healthcare Inc — 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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