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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.

$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
45
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
States reached
$143k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$8.9MYouth Development$733kHuman Services$621kHealth$557kEducation$449kArts & Culture$434kMembership Benefit$432kPublic Safety & Disaster$197kOther$0
02FY2024 · 45 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 45 grants below total $1,050,147, the rows itemized in this filing. The $1,827,649 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $777,502 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k9 grants · $66k
  • $10k–50k33 grants · $651k
  • $50k–250k3 grants · $334k
$15,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$40M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY$25,000
ONLINE JOURNALISM PROJECT INC$25,000
SHELTON HIGH SCHOOL$24,229
ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF THE VALLEY$20,800
VALLEY SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL$20,000
JULIA DAY NURSERY OF ANSONIA INC$20,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%TEAM INC: $143k → 12%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF THE VALLEY: $32k → 12%TEAM INC: $25k → 12%ST VINCENT DE PAUL OF THE VALLEY: $21k → 12%TEAM INC: $20k → 12%TEAM INC: $13k → 12%TEAM INC: $10k → 12%HOPE COUNSELING AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: $10k → 9%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA: $20k → 12%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA: $13k → 12%MOVING WITH HOPE: $10k → 9%CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA: $12k → 12%JULIA DAY NURSERY OF ANSONIA INC: $30k → 12%JULIA DAY NURSERY OF ANSONIA INC: $20k → 12%VALLEY YMCA: $5k → 12%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$11M · 33 repeat orgs$2.2M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
53

Total granted

$11M
$2.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+17%

Still filing today

79%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $185k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
HealthHuman ServicesArts & CultureEducationInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • BI
    BHcare Inc
    2× · 2023–2024 · $272k · revenue +7%
  • TI
    TEAM INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $210k · revenue +10%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY
    2× · 2023–2024 · $125k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • HC
    HOUSATONIC COUNCIL BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA
    one grant, 2022 · $298k
  • OC
    OAK CLIFF CEMETERYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $223k · revenue +217%
  • OC
    OAK CLIFF CEMETERY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · $209k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Community Health Services Inc

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.

Health
2
Connecticut Humane Society

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.

Animals
3
Norwalk Community Health Center

To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.

Health
4
Connecticut Association of Health Care Facilities Inc

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…

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5
Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut Inc

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.

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6
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut Inc

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…

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7
Bridgton Hospital

To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.

Health
8
New Haven Works Inc

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.

Education
9
Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists Pllc

The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.

Health
10
The Connecticut Center for Nursing Workforce Inc

To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.

Health
11
Hartford HealthCare at Home Inc

The mission of the agency is to provide and safeguard quality home health care to all persons in need, especially the indigent and medically underserved population. The agency strongly believes that appropriate health care is a fundamental…

Health
12
Salem Health Hospitals & Clinics

To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Life Health and Wellness Center Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

44 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.

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 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/44
Grantees still filing
30/44
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

VARIOUS TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS: $8,896,384 · OtherVARIOUS TAX-EXEMPT ORGANIZATIONS+71 more: $2,587,652 · Other+71 moreBHcare Inc: $272,000 · HealthGRIFFIN HOSPITAL: $65,136 · HealthSTORM ENGINE COMPANY AMBULANCE CORP: $60,000 · HealthLIFE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER INC: $49,500 · HealthVALLEY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $40,000 · HealthOnline Journalism Project Incorporated: $25,000 · Health+3 more: $28,356 · HealthTEAM INC: $210,000 · Human ServicesST VINCENT DEPAUL OF THE VALLEY INC: $52,800 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $50,157 · Human ServicesJULIA DAY NURSERY OF ANSONIA INC: $50,000 · Human Services+2 more: $20,000 · Human ServicesCENTER STAGE THEATRE INC: $45,000 · Arts & CultureSHELTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $37,950 · Arts & CultureDERBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 · Arts & CultureCARTIE CORP: $24,750 · Arts & CultureNEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 · Arts & CultureMASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC: $16,500 · Arts & CultureBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY: $124,856 · Youth DevelopmentAREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER INC: $65,000 · Housing & ShelterOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $55,000 · InternationalBest Buddies International Inc: $20,000 · InternationalGLOBAL PEHT CORP PARTNERSHIP TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $6,000 · International
Other$11,484,036Health$539,992Human Services$382,957Arts & Culture$169,200Youth Development$124,856Housing & Shelter$85,000International$81,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetBHcare Inc: $272,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTEAM INC: $210,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY: $124,856 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTHE ECHO HOSE HOOK AND LADDER AMBULANCE CORPS INC: $80,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 69 HOUSATONIC COUNCIL: $66,114 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetGRIFFIN HOSPITAL: $65,136 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER INC: $65,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetSTORM ENGINE COMPANY AMBULANCE CORP: $60,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $55,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetST VINCENT DEPAUL OF THE VALLEY INC: $52,800 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $50,157 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJULIA DAY NURSERY OF ANSONIA INC: $50,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetLIFE HEALTH AND WELLNESS CENTER INC: $49,500 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCENTER STAGE THEATRE INC: $45,000 over 2y, 4.6% of budgetValley Shakespeare Festival: $40,000 over 2y, 28% of budgetVALLEY EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES INC: $40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetSHELTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC: $37,950 over 2y, 20% of budgetTHE ADAM WYSOTA FOUNDATION INC: $32,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetSHELTON ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $30,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetUniversity of New Haven: $28,993 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetOnline Journalism Project Incorporated: $25,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDERBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $25,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetVALLEY UNITED WAY INC: $25,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCARTIE CORP: $24,750 over 2y, 11% of budgetSHELBURNE FARMS: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION FUEL INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBest Buddies International Inc: $20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAVENS HARVEST INC: $19,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetMASSARO COMMUNITY FARM INC: $16,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetA MORE BALANCED WORLD INC: $15,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL: $12,356 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSEYMOUR AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC: $12,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMOVING WITH HEALTH ORIENTED PHYSICAL EDUCATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHOPE COUNSELING AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAGENCY ON AGING OF SOUTH CENTRAL CONNECTICUT: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITERACY VOLUNTEERS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCORNELL SCOTT-HILL HEALTH CORPORATION: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE HOMETOWN FOUNDATION INC: $6,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetShelton Robotics Inc Richard Vogl: $6,360 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetGLOBAL PEHT CORP PARTNERSHIP TO END HUMAN TRAFFICKING: $6,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRAPE CRISIS CENTER OF MILFORD INC: $6,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREAD TO GROW INC: $5,100 over 1y, 0.3% of budget
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.

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.

The Community Foundat…Ion Bank Foundation I…Katharine Matthies Fo…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Valley United Way IncNewalliance Foundatio…Eversource Energy Fou…Yale UniversityFairfield County's Co…Liberty Bank Foundati…William Caspar Graust…Peoples United Commun…
The Community Foundation for Greater New HavenCT48.9× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Valley Community Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Valley Community Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 120%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 14%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
12get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
5rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 99 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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