· Private foundation
The Sky Bight Foundation Inc
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.
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 $10k23 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BRISTOL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT | $10,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRISTOL CT | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CLOCK & WATCH MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| BRISTOL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER | $5,000 |
| SHEPARD MEADOWS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $5,000 |
| MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,000 |
| MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $1,900 |
| VERMONT FOODBANK | $900 |
| HAPPY HEARTS PRESCHOOL | $900 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT | $900 |
| BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS | $900 |
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 (FY17–25, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 6% of The Sky Bight Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 94% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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 foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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 +9% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
31 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 8 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, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $262k · revenue +133%
- BHBRISTOL HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC3× · 2018–2020 · $155k · revenue +92%
- SMSHEPARD MEADOWS EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $29k · revenue +80%
Funded once
- BBBRISTOL BOYS & GIRLS CLUB & FAMILY CENTERone grant, 2022 · $10k
- SVST VINCENT DEPAUL SHELTERone grant, 2018 · $10k
- WCWHEELER CLINIC INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +17%
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 water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The mission of the connecticut foodshare is to deliver an informed and equitable response to hunger by mobilizing community partners, volunteers, and supporters.
Bridgespan's mission is to build a better world by strengthening the ability of mission-driven organizations and philanthropists to achieve breakthrough results in addressing society's most important challenges and opportunities.
To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.
Inspired by the gift of donation from our communities, allosource responsibly provides innovative cellular and tissue allografts to advance patient healing.
The mission of health care without harm (hcwh) is to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health…
Accelerate the advancement of women leaders in the food industry. we believe in limitless opportunity for all women.
The healthwise mission is to help people make better health decisions.
Mass general brigham health plan's mission is to promote the health and wellness of our members, and to help ensure equitable, affordbale health care for the diverse communities we serve.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Action Against Hunger - Usa and the most unlike its peers is Morgans Message Inc. 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 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% 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.
60 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. 60 of the 99 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 ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHEPARD MEADOWS EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CLOCK AND WATCH MUSEUMINC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND CAROUSEL MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A NUTMEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc ↗
- Who funds Boys & Girls Club and Family Center of Bristol Inc ↗
- Who funds WHEELER CLINIC INC ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE NORTH STATE ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERORG ↗
- Who funds SIBLEY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
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: Main Street Community Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Harry F & Carol H Barnes Family Foundation · American Savings Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Clinton Roberts Foundation Inc · The Ahearn Family Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · United Way of West Central Connecticut Inc · Torrington Savings Foundation · The Stocker 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 Sky Bight 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.
- Bristol Adult Resource Center Inc — 94% of income from government
- Brain Injury Association of Massachusetts Inc — 74% of income from government
- Rogue Food Unites — 48% of income from government
- Wheeler Clinic Inc — 47% of income from government
- St Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc — 31% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Maslow Project — 22% of income from government
- Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
- Bristol Child Development Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- New England Carousel Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Essex County Community Foundation Inc — 2% of income from government
- Hope for Haiti 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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