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Torrington Savings Foundation at a glance

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Torrington Savings Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$141k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Housing & Shelter$244kArts & Culture$110kHuman Services$101kRecreation & Sports$89kHealth$78kYouth Development$64kEducation$52kFood & Nutrition$52kOther$0
02FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k12 grants · $51k
  • $10k–50k3 grants · $40k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY INTERNATIONAL INC$50,000
WOMENS BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC$15,000
TORRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCORPORATED$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
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.

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Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $3k → 9%HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $2k → 9%HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $1k → 9%CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $4k → 11%SUMMIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $6k → 9%CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $4k → 11%CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $2k → 11%THE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $20k → 9%THE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $15k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $10k → 9%COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC: $5k → 9%SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $5k → 9%THE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $4k → 9%COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC: $3k → 9%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.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$673k · 28 repeat orgs$263k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +13% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
35

Total granted

$673k
$256k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+13%

Still filing today

89%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

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

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

’20’21’22’23’24
Housing & ShelterArts & CultureHuman ServicesHealthYouth DevelopmentPhilanthropyOther
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

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF N WEST CT
    3× · 2020–2024 · $140k · revenue +34% · 28% of their budget
  • PT
    PRIME TIME HOUSE INC
    4× · 2020–2024 · $48k · revenue +29%
  • WB
    WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $40k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • LH
    LITCHFIELD HOUSING TRUST INC
    one grant, 2021 · $30k · revenue 0%
  • TT
    THE TORRINGTON LIBRARY
    one grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue -19%
  • FV
    FALLS VILLAGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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
Eastern Connecticut Housing Opportunities Inc

Eastern connecticut housing opportunities, inc. is a non-profit organization organized to provide affordable housing to low-income families of southeastern connecticut.

Housing & Shelter
2
Neighborhood Housing Services of New Britain

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…

Housing & Shelter
3
Newtown Housing for the Elderly Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
4
Connecticut Housing Coalition Inc

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…

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5
Trout Brook Realty Advisors Inc

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…

Housing & Shelter
6
Wethersfield Historical Society

The purpose of the "Society" is to collect, preserve, and interpret Wethersfield's past for the education and enjoyment of present and future generations.

Arts & Culture
7
Nantucket Community Service Inc

Provide low income elderly housing.

—
8
Community Residences Inc

Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.

Human Services
9
Community Companion and Homemakers By Nancy and Hazel Inc

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.

Human Services
10
Greater Stonington Realty Corporation

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,…

Housing & Shelter
11
New Neighborhoods Inc

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…

—
12
Sarah Tuxis Residential Services in

To provide living accomodations in residential settings for developmentally disabled individuals in the shoreline area of connecticut.

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fishfriends in Service to Humanity of; 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.
04the grantee network

57 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. 57 of the 65 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)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
54/57
Grantees still filing
42/57
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF N WEST CT: $140,000 · OtherHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF N WEST CTNORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSO: $88,228 · OtherNORTHWESTERN CONNECTICUT YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOLITCHFIELD HOUSING TRUST INC: $30,000 · OtherLITCHFIELD HOUSING TRUST INCSHEPARD MEADOWS EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $23,750 · OtherFALLS VILLAGE COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION: $20,000 · OtherCENTER CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH: $18,704 · OtherFRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC: $17,750 · OtherJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC: $19,000 · Other+29 more: $170,023 · Other+29 moreAFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC: $30,000 · Arts & CultureAFTER SCHOO…TORRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $28,380 · Arts & CultureTORRINGTON …KidsPlay Childrens Museum Inc: $15,500 · Arts & CultureKidsPlay Ch…AMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $8,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN MU…NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureNORTHWEST C…NEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $5,000 · Arts & Culture+1 more: $1,000 · Arts & CultureTHE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $38,590 · Human ServicesTHE ARC OF…SUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $15,000 · Human ServicesSUSAN B AN…CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesCONNECTICU…COMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC: $7,500 · Human ServicesCOMMUNITY …SUMMIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $6,200 · Human ServicesSUMMIT ADA…HELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $5,600 · Human ServicesHELPING HA…WOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $40,000 · EducationWOMEN'S B…THE TORRINGTON LIBRARY: $24,900 · EducationTHE TORRI…Girls With Impact Inc: $11,000 · EducationGirls Wit…REBUILDING TOGETHER LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterFISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF: $19,895 · Housing & ShelterGREATER BRISTOL HOMES CO: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterGOSHEN HOUSING TRUST INC: $8,500 · Housing & ShelterNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WATERBURY INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterSALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE FOUNDATION FOR NORFOLK LIVING INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterPRIME TIME HOUSE INC: $47,500 · EmploymentBristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc: $18,700 · Youth DevelopmentLITCHFIELD AID OF THE CONNECTICUT JUNIOR REPUBLIC: $10,000 · Youth DevelopmentBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $3,000 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS OF SUMMER FOUNDATION INC: $1,750 · Youth Development
Other$527,455Arts & Culture$95,380Human Services$82,890Education$75,900Housing & Shelter$73,395Employment$47,500Youth Development$33,450

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

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF N WEST CT: $140,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetPRIME TIME HOUSE INC: $47,500 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetWOMEN'S BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT COUNCIL INC: $40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE ARC OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $38,590 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC: $30,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLITCHFIELD HOUSING TRUST INC: $30,000 over 1y, 8.4% of budgetTORRINGTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY: $28,380 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTHE TORRINGTON LIBRARY: $24,900 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHEPARD MEADOWS EQUESTRIAN CENTER INC: $23,750 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetREBUILDING TOGETHER LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $20,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetFISHFRIENDS IN SERVICE TO HUMANITY OF: $19,895 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC: $19,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetBristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc: $18,700 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFRIENDLY HANDS FOOD BANK INC: $17,750 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetTORRINGTON AREA FAMILIES FOR AUTISM INC: $17,247 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetTHE EQUUS EFFECT INC: $16,900 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetKidsPlay Childrens Museum Inc: $15,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSUSAN B ANTHONY PROJECT INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetGirls With Impact Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ROBERT C GEER MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLITCHFIELD AID OF THE CONNECTICUT JUNIOR REPUBLIC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR HUMAN SERVICES INC: $10,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST CONNECTICUT INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetEDADVANCE: $8,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOSHEN HOUSING TRUST INC: $8,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetAMERICAN MURAL PROJECT INC: $8,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetMCCALL FOUNDATION INC: $7,953 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP MOHAWK INCORPORATED: $7,625 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN OF TORRINGTON INC: $7,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNORTHWEST CONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE ARTS INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WHITE MEMORIAL CONSERVATION CENTER: $7,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCanaan Child Care Inc: $6,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetNEW OPPORTUNITIES INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRISTOL SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA D/B/A NUTMEG SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $6,500 over 2y, 8.7% of budgetSUMMIT ADAPTIVE SPORTS INC: $6,200 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetHELPING HANDS CHORE SERVICE INC: $5,600 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF LITCHFIELD COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENWOODS COUNSELING & REFERRALS INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMARIA SEYMOUR BROOKER MEMORIAL: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT JUNIOR REPUBLIC ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD HOUSING SERVICES OF WATERBURY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSALISBURY HOUSING COMMITTEE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE FOUNDATION FOR NORFOLK LIVING INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetNEW BRITAIN MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART INC: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING CENTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $3,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CONNECTICUT INC: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFAMILY STRIDES INC: $2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetVETERANS STRONG COMMUNITY CENTER: $2,500 over 1y, 2.8% 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.

Northwest Connecticut…Northwest Community B…Thomaston Savings Ban…The Connecticut Commu…American Savings Foun…Union Savings Bank Fo…Northwest Ct Communit…Main Street Community…Eversource Energy Fou…Hartford Foundation f…Farmington Bank Commu…Liberty Bank Foundati…
Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation IncCT65× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

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 Torrington Savings Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Torrington Savings Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%2%8%17%30%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 28%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
11report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
6rely 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.
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How do I get to Torrington Savings Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Torrington Savings Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

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 65 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-PF 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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