· Public charity
Valley United Way Inc
To improve lives by mobilizing the caring power of our community through philanthropy, volunteerism, and collaboration.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 13 grants below total $255,852 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $290,032 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $34,180 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 · FY2025
- Under $10k5 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $153k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $66k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF THE LNV | $66,350 |
| VALLEY YMCA | $27,850 |
| PARENT CHILD RESOURCE CENTER | $26,900 |
| BSAHOUSATONIC COUNCIL | $22,295 |
| AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER | $22,189 |
| CHRISTIAN COUNSELING & FAMILY LIFE CENTER | $20,000 |
| BHCARE - CENTER FOR DOMESTIC VIOLENCE SERVICES | $19,200 |
| RAPE CRISIS CENTER | $15,000 |
| TEAM INC MEALS ON WHEELS | $9,600 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES - FAMILY SERVICE CENTER | $9,600 |
| UNITED WAY OF CT | $5,968 |
| ST VINCENT DE PAUL | $5,800 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $5,100 |
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 (FY17–25, $697k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% 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.
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 +25% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.
17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 4 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY9× · 2017–2025 · $653k · revenue +25%
- BSBOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 69 HOUSATONIC COUNCIL9× · 2017–2025 · $253k · revenue +2%
- CCCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC8× · 2018–2025 · $244k · revenue +21%
Funded once
- VYVALLEY YMCAone grant, 2017 · $42k
- USUNITED STATES CATHOLIC CONFERENCEone grant, 2017 · $36k
- MOMEALS ON WHEELS-TEAM INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
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.
To provide substance abuse and mental health treatment services. programs include methadone maintenance, outpatient, hiv, detoxification and dually diagnosed treatments and counseling.
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…
Child Advocates of Connecticut (CAC) transforms the lives of vulnerable children and youth by providing trained and supervised one-on-one volunteer advocates in the community, classroom and courtroom.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
The mission of the connecticut association for community action is to strengthen the capacities of its members to empower people in need and improve the communities in which they live.
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…
Empower a statewide network of caring, consistent volunteer court appointed special advocates to advance the best interests of children who have experienced abuse or neglect so every child can find a safe, permanent home to thrive.
The community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
Community guidance clinic for central connecticut, an established and trusted community resource, provides comprehensive evidence-based behavioral health services that promote wellness and resilience. our collaborative, family-focused,…
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…
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…
Fca is a community-based behavioral health center that offers innovation, responsive and traditional mental health care and services for children, adolescents, adults and their families.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Connecticut Inc and the most unlike its peers is Breakthrough T1D. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 23 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 BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF THE LOWER NAUGATUCK VALLEY ↗
- Who funds BOY SCOUTS OF AMERICA 69 HOUSATONIC COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds AREA CONGREGATIONS TOGETHER INC ↗
- Who funds BHcare Inc ↗
- Who funds RAPE CRISIS CENTER OF MILFORD INC ↗
- Who funds TEAM INC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES INC ARCHDIOCESE OF HARTFORD ↗
- Who funds HOPE COUNSELING AND BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds ST VINCENT DEPAUL OF THE VALLEY INC ↗
- Who funds Visiting Nurse Association of South Central Connecticut Inc ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds RECREATION CAMP INC ↗
- Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds DERBY DAY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
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 Valley Community Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · United Way of Milford Inc · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
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 Valley United Way 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.
- United Way of Connecticut Inc — 100% of income from government
- Team Inc — 84% of income from government
- BHcare Inc — 68% of income from government
- Special Olympics Connecticut Inc — 42% of income from government
- Catholic Charities Inc Archdiocese of Hartford — 39% of income from government
- Area Congregations Together Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley — 19% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- Rape Crisis Center of Milford Inc — 6% 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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