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Updike Kelly & Spellacy PC Charitable 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
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 46% of UPDIKE KELLY & SPELLACY PC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION INC’s grantee dollars fall outside its nine largest cause areas, whether because the recipient carries no IRS cause code or because its cause sits in the long tail. A chart would be mostly one residual band and misrepresent the portfolio.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WORLD AFFAIRS COUNSEL OF CT | $8,600 |
| HARTFORD HOSPITAL | $4,300 |
| CT BREAST HEALTH INITIATIVE | $1,000 |
| MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN CT | $1,000 |
| THE FRIENDSHIP SERVICE CENTER INC | $1,000 |
| WREATHS ACROSS AMERICA | $510 |
| PROTECTORS OF ANIMALS INC | $500 |
| MAKE-A-WISH AMERICA | $500 |
| DANA-FARBER CANCER INSTITUTE | $500 |
| YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL | $250 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF GREATER NEW H | $250 |
| MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION | $200 |
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 (FY17–23, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 23% 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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +43% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 10 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, 28% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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
- GFGOODWIN FOUNDATION INC2× · 2017–2018 · $30k · revenue +288%
- HHHartford Hospital4× · 2017–2024 · $18k · revenue +92%
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC2× · 2018–2019 · $5k · revenue +102%
Funded once
MARCH OF DIMES INCone grant, 2018 · $3k · revenue -41%- GOGOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $3k · revenue +29%
- MYMIDDLESEX YMCAone grant, 2018 · $3k
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.
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 Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group Specialists, PLLC is to put the patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
The Hospital of Central Connecticut is dedicated to fostering, sustaining and improving the health status of the people in the communities we serve.
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…
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
Middlesex hospital exists to provide the safest, highest-quality health care and the best experience possible for our community. (continued on schedule o)
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
The Universal Health Care Foundation's mission is to be a catalyst that engages people and communities in shaping a democratic health system that provides universal access to quality health care and promotes health in Connecticut. The…
Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…
The Mission of Hartford HealthCare Medical Group is to put patients first, provide coordinated quality care and value, and exceed the expectations of patients, providers, staff and the community that it serves.
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is March of Dimes Inc and the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 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 38 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% 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.
44 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. 44 of the 80 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 GOODWIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford Hospital ↗
- Who funds Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc ↗
- Who funds READ TO GROW INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MIDDLESEX COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES INC ↗
- Who funds GOODSPEED OPERA HOUSE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds YWCA HARTFORD REGION INC ↗
- Who funds Friendship Service Center Inc ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds American Heart Association Inc ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds MALTA HOUSE OF CARE INC ↗
- Who funds CONN BREAST HEALTH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds MIRACLE LEAGUE OF SOUTHEASTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds CHERISH THE CHILDREN FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIAN HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds ETHEL WALKER SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds LIFELONG LEARNING CORPORATION ↗
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: Aetna Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · American Savings Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Trinity Health of New England Corporation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Newalliance 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 Updike Kelly & Spellacy PC Charitable 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.
- Brian House Inc — 100% of income from government
- Harc Inc — 92% of income from government
- Friendship Service Center Inc — 85% of income from government
- Jewish Association for Community Living Inc — 84% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Greater Hartford Arts Council Inc — 24% of income from government
- Ywca Hartford Region Inc — 7% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
- St Vincent Depaul Middletown — 6% of income from government
- The Opera House Players Inc — 1% of income from government
- New Jersey Audubon Society — 1% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital — 0% of income from government
- Miracle League of Connecticut 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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