· Private foundation
The Risc Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
99% of The Risc Foundation Inc’s FY2024 grant dollars went to The Community Foundation For Greater New Haven, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2024 names 1 organization directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2021, the last year The Risc Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 15 organizations, $395k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- Under $10k13 grants · $28k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $42k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
- $250k+1 grant · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALL OUR KIN INC | $275,000 |
| JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC | $50,000 |
| THE NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK | $12,000 |
| CALVIN HILL DAY CARE CENTER | $10,000 |
| FOOTE SCHOOL INC - HORIZONS AT FOOTE | $10,000 |
| LEAP INC | $10,000 |
| FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| INTEGRATD REFUGEE & IMMIGRANT SERVICES INC (IRIS) | $4,000 |
| PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND | $3,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOOD BANK | $2,500 |
| NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW HAVEN | $2,500 |
| MUSIC HAVEN | $2,500 |
| CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN | $2,500 |
| DOWNTOWN EVENING SOUP KITCHENINC | $1,000 |
| GROWERS INC | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–21, $120k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 14%. 15% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
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 +93% since the first grant, against -20% for the ones you funded once.
21 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call). Read against FY2021, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
ALL OUR KIN INC5× · 2017–2021 · $1.3M · revenue +96%- JPJACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC8× · 2017–2024 · $400k · revenue +95%
- NHNEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC5× · 2017–2021 · $60k · revenue +66%
Funded once
- DDDORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATEDone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue -20%
- 'K'R KIDS INCone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue -59%
- OJOnline Journalism Project Incorporatedgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $1k · revenue +459%
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.
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…
New neighborhoods, inc.'s purpose is to develop, redevelop, own and manage quality housing for low and moderate income persons and families and to work to assist in the planning, re-planning, development and improvement of low and moderate…
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.
Jewish family service of greater new haven (jfsgnh) supports and strengthens individual, family, and community life by providing a wide range of social services. we welcome people of all ages, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations,…
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.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
The organization provides advocacy, monitoring, and guardian ad litem services to children in the connecticut foster care system.
To provide quality services to meet selected needs of individuals with intellectual disabilities in the greater new haven region.
New Haven Promise works to build a culture in the public schools in which students aspire to attend and graduate from college; to provide financial incentives and support for those students; and to facilitate their return to live, work and…
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
Our mission is to provide a safe and nurturing environment for children to develop socially, creatively, emotionally, physically and cognitavely through the various programs we offer. we operate on the premise that a child's natural…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Greater New Haven Inc and the most unlike its peers is Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 36 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% 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.
23 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. 23 of the 29 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN ↗
- Who funds ALL OUR KIN INC ↗
- Who funds JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN READS COMMUNITY BOOK BANK INC ↗
- Who funds CALVIN HILL DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds LEAP INC ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT VOICES FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds DORRANCE DANCE INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds 'R KIDS INC ↗
- Who funds GROWERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN LEGAL ASSISTANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds EDGERTON PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds CITY SEED INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HYTES INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds Online Journalism Project Incorporated ↗
- Who funds New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated ↗
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: Yale University · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Seedlings Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The Daniel & Sharon Milikowsky Family Foundation
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 Risc Foundation Inc 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.
- City Seed Inc — 87% of income from government
- 'R Kids Inc — 82% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Friends Center for Children Inc — 21% of income from government
- Music Haven Inc — 15% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven Inc — 13% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc — 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Calvin Hill Day Care Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Haven Free Public Library Foundation Incorporated — 4% of income from government
- The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven — 2% of income from government
- New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
- Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival Inc — 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra 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.