· Private foundation
The Reach Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k16 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ACTIVE CITY | $5,000 |
| FOLDS OF HONOR | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| ANDREW LAWSON FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| WILSON GRAY YMCA | $3,000 |
| WILSON GRAY YMCA | $2,500 |
| MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| PROJECT CHILD SAVE | $2,500 |
| MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| MUSICIANS ON CALL | $2,500 |
| WILSON GRAY YMCA | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| COVENANT TO CARE | $1,000 |
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 (FY19–25, $42k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 6% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
14 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 10 since wound down; 9 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, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $37k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SWSHOP WITH A COP2× · 2021–2022 · $64k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · $35k
- YMYOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC6× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- BCBROTHER CARL HARDRICK INSTone grant, 2022 · $27k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2022 · $11k
- WHWEST HARTFORD FOOD PANTRYone grant, 2021 · $5k
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.
Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.
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.
Feeding families foundation's mission is to eliminate hospital food insecurity for parents/caregivers of critically ill children by covering the cost of hospital meals and having those meals delivered to the room so parents do not need to…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
Connecticut children's medical center is dedicated to improving the physical and emotional health of children through family-centered care, research, education and advocacy. we embrace discovery, teamwork, integrity and excellence in all…
The mission of the children's hope chest, inc. (chc) is to provide help and offer hope to children in our community suffering from poverty, abuse, neglect and illness. we strive to increase social action by promoting adult and youth…
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
Fca is a community-based behavioral health center that offers innovation, responsive and traditional mental health care and services for children, adolescents, adults and their families.
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
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…
How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 44 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 YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF METROPOLITAN HARTFORD INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOLDS OF HONOR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Plainville Community Food Pantry Inc ↗
- Who funds Active City Inc ↗
- Who funds MUSICIANS ON CALL INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT CHILD SAVE ↗
- Who funds Sams Children Inc ↗
- Who funds HELPING HANDS STORE FRONT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds COVENANT TO CARE FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FIGHT FOR LIFE FOUNDATION 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.
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How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Reach Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Reach Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Covenant to Care for Children Inc: 35% of income from government
- Active City Inc: 29% of income from government
- The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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