· Private foundation
Town Fair Tire Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
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 53 grants below total $1,253,590 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $2,013,595 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $760,005 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 · FY2020
- Under $10k32 grants · $114k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $226k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $662k
- $250k+1 grant · $252k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY | $252,000 |
| HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN | $202,000 |
| UCONN FOUNDATION | $100,000 |
| TISCH MS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK | $100,000 |
| CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING | $60,000 |
| YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| CATALYST COALITION INC | $50,000 |
| OPTIMUS HEALTH CARE INC | $50,000 |
| HARTFORD HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| NEW HAMPSHIRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $25,000 |
| NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT | $25,000 |
| VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| RHODE ISLAND FOUNDATION | $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 (FY17–19, $264k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 77% 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.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
59 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2020, 47 since wound down; 29 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 21% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $875k 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
- SMST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC3× · 2017–2019 · $601k · revenue +114%
- TMTISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC4× · 2017–2020 · $585k · revenue +24%
- AIAchilles International Inc4× · 2017–2020 · $230k · revenue +128%
Funded once
- QUQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $300k · revenue +25%
- HFHORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDRENgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $200k · revenue +41%
- HHORIZONSone grant, 2018 · $200k
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.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
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.
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
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…
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Greater Joy Mission Church. 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 38 years old; the field is 17. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 20% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
114 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. 114 of the 204 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 ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds TISCH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS RESEARCH CENTER OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Achilles International Inc ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS FOR HOMELESS CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds ABILITY BEYOND DISABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC GIVING ↗
- Who funds THE VERMONT COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds COVENANT SOUP KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW REACH INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND INNOCENCE PROJECT ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CANCER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Goodwill Industries of Northern NE ↗
- Who funds AFTER THE FINISH LINE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT COUNCIL FOR PHILANTHROPY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds CABRINI MISSION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OPTIMUS HEALTH CARE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ARTS AND IDEAS INC ↗
- Who funds GATEWAY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION 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 Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Yale University · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven 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 Town Fair Tire 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.
- Continuum of Care Inc — 100% of income from government
- Columbus House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Lifepath Inc — 85% of income from government
- Cape Abilities Inc — 81% of income from government
- Keystone House Inc — 66% of income from government
- Friends of Children Inc — 54% of income from government
- Hispanic Coalition of Greater Waterbury — 53% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- United Way of Greater New Haven Inc — 42% of income from government
- Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
- Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Benhaven Inc — 33% of income from government
- Louis D Brown Peace Institute Corp — 32% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
- Danbury Youth Services — 29% of income from government
- Connecticut Council for Philanthropy — 24% of income from government
- Optimus Health Care Inc — 22% of income from government
- Horizons for Homeless Children — 21% of income from government
- The Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford — 20% of income from government
- Solar Youth Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- Marrakech Inc — 14% of income from government
- New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Inc — 13% of income from government
- Design Museum Foundation Inc — 12% of income from government
- New England Innocence Project — 12% of income from government
- Gaylord Hospital Inc — 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
- Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc — 5% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Greater Bridgeport Symphony Society Inc — 3% of income from government
- Worcester State Foundation Inc — 3% of income from government
- New Haven Symphony Orchestra Inc — 3% of income from government
- Boys and Girls Club of Worcester Inc — 2% of income from government
- New Haven International Festival of Arts and Ideas Inc — 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Quinnipiac University — 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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