· Private foundation
Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k274 grants · $660k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $105k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of New Britain Inc | $50,000 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Bristol | $29,600 |
| Environmental Learning Centers of Connecticut | $25,000 |
| Landmark Community Theatre | $15,000 |
| United Way Greater Waterbury Inc | $15,000 |
| Thomaston Volunteer Fire Department | $10,000 |
| The Palace Theater | $10,000 |
| Mattatuck Museum | $8,000 |
| Children's Community School | $7,500 |
| Holy Cross High School | $7,000 |
| Central Connecticut Chambers of Commerce | $7,000 |
| Warner Theatre | $6,931 |
| Mattatuck Museum | $5,000 |
| NEST | $5,000 |
| Greater Waterbury Interfaith Ministries Inc | $5,000 |
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 (FY20–25, $382k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 13%. 0% 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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 10% of Thomaston Savings Bank 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, 100% 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 +28% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
266 repeat relationships — 188 still active in FY2025, 78 since wound down; 27 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; $51k 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 INC6× · 2020–2025 · $163k · revenue +30%
- LCLANDMARK COMMUNITY THEATRE INC6× · 2020–2025 · $137k · revenue +39%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WATERBURY6× · 2020–2025 · $117k · revenue +45%
Funded once
- BGBoys & Girls Club of Bristol Family Centerone grant, 2020 · $33k
- EAECG Acquisition LLC (Emily's Catering Group)one grant, 2021 · $23k
- WBWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $15k · revenue +268%
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 assist woodbury, connecticut residents who are in need of food, fuel, and short-term financial assistance.
Volunteer fire department
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Volunteer fire department
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…
Providing food assistance to Southbury residents demonstrating need.
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…
Northwest regional workforce investment board, inc is a not-for-profit corporation organized to develop and oversee a complete system of services for the employment and training of connecticut's workforce, concentrating in danbury,…
Assistance to local needy people.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fishfriends in Service to Humanity of and the most unlike its peers is American Legion Plymouth Post 20. 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 31 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 9% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% 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.
182 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. 182 of the 421 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
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 FRIENDS OF THE THOMASTON OPERA HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds LANDMARK COMMUNITY THEATRE INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF GREATER WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds THE UNITED WAY OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS' & GIRLS' CLUB OF NEW BRITAIN INC ↗
- Who funds ST MARY'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHILDREN'S COMMUNITY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MATTATUCK HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUMAN RESOURCES AGENCY OF NEW BRITAIN INC ↗
- Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL MISSION OF WATERBURY ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WATERBURY INC ↗
- Who funds SAFE HAVEN OF GREATER WTBY INC ↗
- Who funds THE PALACE THEATER GROUP INC ↗
- Who funds PRUDENCE CRANDALL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF WEST CENTRAL CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CARING FOR BETHLEHEM INC ↗
- Who funds FIVE POINTS CENTER FOR THE VISUAL ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE OF GREATER WATERBURY CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds THOMASTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENTINC ↗
- Who funds FISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF ↗
- Who funds PLYMOUTH COMMUNITY FOOD PANTRY ↗
- Who funds EASTER SEAL REHABILITATION CENTER OF GREATER WATERBURY INC ↗
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 Connecticut Community Foundation · American Savings Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Main Street Community Foundation Inc · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Community Foundation of Greater New Britain · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Torrington Savings Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Inc · The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc
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 Thomaston Savings Bank 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.
- New Foundations Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Arc of Litchfield County Inc — 97% of income from government
- Community Mental Health Affiliates Inc — 96% of income from government
- Bristol Adult Resource Center Inc — 94% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Bags Foundation Ct Inc — 90% of income from government
- Ccarc Inc — 85% of income from government
- Friendship Service Center Inc — 85% of income from government
- Human Resources Agency of New Britain Inc — 78% of income from government
- Five Points Center for the Visual Arts Inc — 75% of income from government
- New Opportunities Inc — 70% of income from government
- Wellmore Inc — 65% of income from government
- The Bridge Family Center Inc — 61% of income from government
- Boys' & Girls' Club of New Britain Inc — 58% of income from government
- Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury — 53% of income from government
- Operation Fuel Incorporated — 51% of income from government
- Prime Time House Inc — 50% of income from government
- St Vincent Depaul Mission of Waterbury — 49% of income from government
- Wheeler Clinic Inc — 47% of income from government
- New Britain Roots Inc — 46% of income from government
- Clicc Inc — 46% of income from government
- Mccall Foundation Inc — 41% of income from government
- Edadvance — 41% of income from government
- Fishfriends in Service to Humanity of — 39% of income from government
- Women's Business Development Council Inc — 39% of income from government
- Family and Children's Aid Inc — 36% of income from government
- Covenant to Care for Children Inc — 35% of income from government
- Northwest Connecticut Arts Council Inc — 35% of income from government
- St Vincent DePaul Mission of Bristol Inc — 31% of income from government
- Prudence Crandall Center Inc — 30% of income from government
- Connecticut Bar Foundation — 25% of income from government
- Rivera Memorial Foundation Inc — 21% of income from government
- The Waterbury Young Men's Christian Association — 21% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Greater Waterbury — 18% of income from government
- Coram Deo Inc — 17% of income from government
- Staywell Health Care Inc — 17% of income from government
- Arts for Learning Connecticut — 14% of income from government
- The Palace Theater Group Inc — 12% of income from government
- Afro Caribbean Cultural Center Inc — 11% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury Inc — 8% of income from government
- Connecticut Counseling Centers Inc — 8% of income from government
- Greenwoods Counseling & Referrals Inc — 7% of income from government
- New Britain Museum of American Art Inc — 7% of income from government
- Kelly's Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 7% of income from government
- Hill-Stead Museum — 7% of income from government
- Bristol Child Development Center Inc — 7% of income from government
- The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc — 6% of income from government
- Greater Torrington Family Dev Ctr — 5% of income from government
- Middlebury Volunteer Fire Department Inc — 5% of income from government
- New Horizons Inc — 4% of income from government
- Joyful Noise Inc — 4% of income from government
- Queen Ann Nzinga Center Inc — 3% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc — 2% of income from government
- Landmark Community Theatre Inc — 2% of income from government
- New England Carousel Museum Inc — 2% of income from government
- Waterbury Symphony Orchestra Inc — 1% of income from government
- East Litchfield Volunteer Fire Co Inc — 1% of income from government
- Northfield Voluteer Fire Company I — 1% of income from government
- New Horizons Living Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation — 0% of income from government
- The Ccsu Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Family Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hospital for Special Care — 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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