· 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 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 $10k23 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BRISTOL CT | $10,000 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT | $10,000 |
| BRISTOL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CLOCK & WATCH MUSEUM | $5,000 |
| SHEPARD MEADOWS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER | $5,000 |
| BRISTOL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| BRISTOL ADULT RESOURCE 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 |
| HAPPY HEARTS PRESCHOOL | $900 |
| BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS | $900 |
| ROGUE FOOD UNITES | $900 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT | $900 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of The Sky Bight Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 97% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 94%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those 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
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ELENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC9× · 2017–2025 · $262k · revenue +23%
- 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
- AUASBURY UNITED METHODIST CHURCHone grant, 2018 · $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.
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.
How this is measured
60 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. 60 of the 99 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 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 BRISTOL CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds WHEELER CLINIC 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 BRAIN INJURY ASSOCIATION OF MASSACHUSETTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Sky Bight Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Sky Bight Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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