· Community foundation
The Valley Community Foundation Inc
To inspire philanthropic growth, provide and foster leadership, engage donors, and strengthen the valley community both now and for future generations.
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.
The 45 grants below total $1,050,147 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $1,827,649 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $777,502 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k9 grants · $66k
- $10k–50k33 grants · $651k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $334k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| TEAM INC | $142,500 |
| BHCARE | $140,000 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY | $51,182 |
| ECHO HOSE HOOK AND LADDER VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE CORPS INC | $45,000 |
| AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER INC | $45,000 |
| VALLEY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES | $40,000 |
| DERBY PUBLIC LIBRARY | $35,000 |
| CHRIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH | $33,000 |
| STORM ENGINE COMPANY AMBULANCE CORPS INC | $28,560 |
| ONLINE JOURNALISM PROJECT INC | $25,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $25,000 |
| SHELTON HIGH SCHOOL | $24,229 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF THE VALLEY | $20,800 |
| CENTER STAGE THEATRE INC | $20,000 |
| JULIA DAY NURSERY OF ANSONIA INC | $20,000 |
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 (FY23–24, $383k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 95% 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.
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.
33 repeat relationships — 32 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k 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
- BIBHcare Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $272k · revenue +7%
- TITEAM INC2× · 2023–2024 · $210k · revenue +10%
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- HCHOUSATONIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICAone grant, 2022 · $298k
- OCOAK CLIFF CEMETERYgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $223k · revenue +217%
- OCOAK CLIFF CEMETERY ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2022 · $209k
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 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.
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 association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
VNA of South Central Connecticut, Inc. is dedicated to enhancing the health, well being and quality of life at home and in the community is serves.
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
To provide primary health management care to the uninsured and underinsured population of northwestern connecticut, regardless of the individual's ability to pay for these services.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
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 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…
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…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Health and Wellness Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Shelton Robotics Inc Richard Vogl. 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 41 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 4% of your grantees by number, and just 1% 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.
44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 44 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 BHcare Inc ↗
- Who funds OAK CLIFF CEMETERY ↗
- Who funds TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds THE ECHO HOSE HOOK AND LADDER AMBULANCE CORPS INC ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 69 HOUSATONIC COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds GRIFFIN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds STORM ENGINE COMPANY AMBULANCE CORP ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JULIA DAY NURSERY OF ANSONIA INC ↗
- Who funds LIFE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER STAGE THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds VALLEY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Valley Shakespeare Festival ↗
- Who funds SHELTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds THE ADAM WYSOTA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SHELTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
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: The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Katharine Matthies Foundation · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Valley United Way Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Yale University · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Peoples United Community 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 Valley Community 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.
- Team Inc — 84% of income from government
- BHcare Inc — 68% of income from government
- Agency On Aging of South Central Connecticut — 55% of income from government
- Global Peht Corp Partnership to End Human Trafficking — 52% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- Area Congregations Together Inc — 30% of income from government
- Massaro Community Farm Inc — 27% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley — 19% of income from government
- Center Stage Theatre Inc — 16% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation — 12% of income from government
- Rape Crisis Center of Milford Inc — 6% of income from government
- Valley Shakespeare Festival — 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cartie Corp — 3% of income from government
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
- Shelburne Farms — 3% of income from government
- University of New Haven — 2% of income from government
- Griffin Hospital — 2% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 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.