· Private foundation
Torrington Savings Foundation
Its FY2024 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 FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k12 grants · $51k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC | $50,000 |
| TORRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED | $15,000 |
| WOMENS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC | $15,000 |
| PRIME TIME HOUSE INC | $10,000 |
| EQUUS EFFECT | $9,400 |
| REBUILDING TOGETHER IN LITCHFIELD COUNTY CONNECTIC | $7,500 |
| FRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC | $5,850 |
| YMCA CAMP MOHAWK INC | $5,000 |
| MARIA SEYMOUR BROOKER MEMORIAL INC | $5,000 |
| AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC | $4,000 |
| NORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSO | $2,750 |
| VETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER INC | $2,500 |
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC | $2,500 |
| NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC | $2,500 |
| THE SALVATION ARMY | $2,250 |
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 (FY20–24, $83k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 12% 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.
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 +34% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.
28 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF N WEST CT3× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +34% · 28% of their budget
- PTPRIME TIME HOUSE INC4× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +29%
- WBWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC2× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +268%
Funded once
- LHLITCHFIELD HOUSING TRUST INCone grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue 0%
- TTTHE TORRINGTON LIBRARYone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -19%
- FVFALLS VILLAGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATIONone grant, 2021 · $20k
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.
Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.
The corporation is engaged in encouraging the cooperative efforts of neighborhood representatives, government and participating lending institutions in a combined effort to stem the decline and deterioration of the housing within the city…
Newtown housing for the elderly, inc., ("nhe"), is a non-profit organization established to provide low cost housing for those persons aged sixty-two or older and to those persons who are handicapped or disabled. nhe operates nunnawauk…
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…
To create, preserve, revitalize and pursue affordable housing and community development opportunities that serve a diverse mix of households, to entertain, through partnerships or through consultative services, affordable housing activity…
The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.
Provide low income elderly housing.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
To provide non-medical in home services to aging and disabled adults and to collaborate with other area providers to prevent premature institutional placement and to promote quality of life.
The mission is to promote and educate affordable housing available to individuals and families in the geographic area located around Stonington, Connecticut. The specific purpose of the Corporation is to develop, redevelop, manage,…
New neighborhoods, inc.'s purpose is to develop, redevelop, own and manage quality housing for low and moderate income persons and families and to work to assist in the planning, re-planning, development and improvement of low and moderate…
To provide living accomodations in residential settings for developmentally disabled individuals in the shoreline area of connecticut.
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 Litchfield Housing Trust 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 41 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 9% 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.
57 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. 57 of the 65 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 HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF N WEST CT ↗
- Who funds PRIME TIME HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds THE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds TORRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE TORRINGTON LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds SHEPARD MEADOWS EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds REBUILDING TOGETHER LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds FISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Bristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds TORRINGTON AREA FAMILIES FOR AUTISM INC ↗
- Who funds THE EQUUS EFFECT INC ↗
- Who funds KidsPlay Childrens Museum Inc ↗
- Who funds SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Girls With Impact Inc ↗
- Who funds THE ROBERT C GEER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BRISTOL HOMES CO ↗
- Who funds LITCHFIELD AID OF THE CONNECTICUT JUNIOR REPUBLIC ↗
- Who funds EDADVANCE ↗
- Who funds GOSHEN HOUSING TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds MCCALL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CAMP MOHAWK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds THE WHITE MEMORIAL CONSERVATION CENTER ↗
- Who funds BRISTOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A NUTMEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds NEW OPPORTUNITIES INC ↗
- Who funds Canaan Child Care Inc ↗
- Who funds SUMMIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS 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: Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Northwest Community Bank Foundation Inc · Thomaston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · American Savings Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Northwest Ct Community Foundation Trust · Main Street Community Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation 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 Torrington Savings Foundation 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.
- The Arc of Litchfield County Inc — 97% of income from government
- Chrysalis Center Inc — 93% of income from government
- Connecticut Junior Republic Association Incorporated — 71% of income from government
- Salisbury Housing Committee Inc — 70% of income from government
- New Opportunities Inc — 70% of income from government
- Prime Time House Inc — 50% 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
- Northwest Connecticut Arts Council Inc — 35% of income from government
- Family Strides Inc — 28% of income from government
- The Equus Effect Inc — 16% of income from government
- Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc — 15% of income from government
- Neighborhood Housing Services of Waterbury 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
- Bristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc — 2% of income from government
- American Mural Project Inc — 1% of income from government
- After School Arts Program Inc — 1% of income from government
- Maria Seymour Brooker Memorial — 1% of income from government
- The Family Center Inc — 0% of income from government
- Susan B Anthony Project Inc — 0% of income from government
- Visiting Nurse & Hospice of Litchfield County 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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