· Private foundation
Uncas Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Read this first · the figures below need context
54% of Uncas Foundation Inc’s FY2025 grant dollars went to The Guilford Foundation Inc, not to grantees.
Its money now reaches organizations through that sponsor, which does not report who recommended each grant. FY2025 names 6 organizations directly, so a portfolio cannot be read from it. Everything below is therefore FY2024, the last year Uncas Foundation Inc named its own grantees at scale: 5 organizations, $121k. It is dated, not current.
Organizations named directly on the return
Amber years are those where most dollars went to a sponsor.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $11k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART | $100,000 |
| GUILFORD FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| HAMILTON COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| SMITH COLLEGE | $2,500 |
| GARDEN CLUB OF NEW HAVEN | $2,000 |
| FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY | $1,000 |
| CATHOLIC RELEIF SERVICES | $1,000 |
| HUMANA FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $7k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +32% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.
13 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call). Read against FY2024, the last year this funder named its own grantees directly; its giving has since run through a sponsor, which reports no donor behind each grant.
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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NGNational Gallery of Art7× · 2018–2025 · $283k · revenue +38%
- MMMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART2× · 2018–2023 · $65k · revenue +58%
- TTTHE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $16k · revenue +52%
Funded once
- SMST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue +114%
- GFGUILFORD FREE LIBRARYone grant, 2020 · $2k
- CCCONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGYone grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue -83%
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.
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.
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 establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
The Frick Collection (the "Collection") operates an internationally recognized art museum and library program for the inspiration and enjoyment of the public and for the advancement of the study of fine arts and kindred subjects.
Munson-williams-proctor arts institute (mwpai) is a fine arts center dedicated to serving diverse audiences by advancing the appreciation, understanding, and enjoyment of the arts. the art institute aims to promote interest and…
At sarah lawrence college, our mission is to graduate citizens of the world who are diverse in every definition of the word, who take intellectual and creative risks, and who are able to focus exceptional intellectual discipline (continued…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To provide a transformative, practical, and excellent liberal arts education that produces critical thinkers in an inclusive, diverse environment, guided by quaker testimonies of community, equality, integrity, peace, and simplicity and…
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The new york studio school is committed to giving a significant education to the aspiring artist, a preamble to a lifetime's engagement in drawing, painting, and sculpture. (see schedule o for continuation)
How this is measured
16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 26 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
- Who funds National Gallery of Art ↗
- Who funds THE GUILFORD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOMEN & FAMILY LIFE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS CENTER FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds Humana Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE DAGUERREIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ST MARTIN DE PORRES ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds GUILFORD COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE LOTOS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT CENTER FOR ARTS & TECHNOLOGY ↗
- Who funds SHORELINE CHAMBER OF COMMERCE ↗
- Who funds WELLFLEET PRESERVATION HALL INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Seedlings Foundation · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Uncas Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Uncas Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Connecticut Center for Arts & Technology: 47% of income from government
- Friends Center for Children Inc: 21% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- Wellfleet Preservation Hall Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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