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Watkinson Prisoners' Aid Society at a glance

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Watkinson Prisoners' Aid Society

Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$8k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
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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 2025.

Health$85kCrime & Legal$50kArts & Culture$35kReligion$16kCivil Rights$4k
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$456k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT$7,500
YOUTH CHALLENGE OF CT INC$7,500
COMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC$7,500
CONNECTICUT RENAISSANCE$7,500
COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC$5,000
COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION$4,500
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.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$179k · 8 repeat orgs$10k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +38% since the first grant, against +30% for those funded once.

8 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

$179k
$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+30%

Still filing today

63%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureOther
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

  • TL
    THE LIFE CENTER OF CONNECTICUT INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $36k · revenue +231%
  • CP
    COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $31k · revenue +111%
  • CS
    COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC
    6× · 2020–2025 · $26k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CONNECTION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $4k · revenue +30%
  • CR
    CONNECTICUT RESOURCES FOR JUSTIVE
    one grant, 2022 · $4k
  • FR
    FAMILY REENTRY INC
    one grant, 2020 · $2k · revenue 0%
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
04the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
6/7
Grantees still filing
5/7
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE LIFE CENTER OF CONNECTICUT INC: $36,000 · HealthTHE LIFE CENTER OF CONNECTICUT INCCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC: $25,514 · HealthCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INCCONNECTICUT RENAISSANCE INC: $19,977 · HealthCONNECTICUT RENAISSANCE INCTHE CONNECTION INC: $4,000 · HealthCOMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC: $30,500 · OtherCOMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INCCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INC: $17,000 · OtherCOMMUNITY RESOURCES FOR JUSTICE INCCOUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF GREATER BRIDGEPORT INC: $15,500 · OtherCOUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF GREATER BRIDGEPORT INCJUDY DWORIN PERFORMANCE PROJECT: $14,000 · OtherJUDY DWORIN PERFORMANCE PROJECTCONNECTICUT RESOURCES FOR JUSTIVE: $4,000 · Other+1 more: $2,278 · OtherJUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC: $20,500 · Arts & CultureJUSTICE DANC…
Health$85,491Other$83,278Arts & Culture$20,500

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

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE LIFE CENTER OF CONNECTICUT INC: $36,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC: $30,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC: $25,514 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetJUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC: $20,500 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCONNECTICUT RENAISSANCE INC: $19,977 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONNECTION INC: $4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFAMILY REENTRY INC: $2,278 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

  • Who funds THE LIFE CENTER OF CONNECTICUT INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY PARTNERS IN ACTION INC ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE DANCE PERFORMANCE PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT RENAISSANCE INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CONNECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds FAMILY REENTRY 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.

Hartford Foundation f…Fairfield County's Co…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Hartford Foundation for Public GivingCT15.5× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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 Watkinson Prisoners' Aid Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Watkinson Prisoners' Aid Society. Bigger dots raise more.

2025
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 00%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 59%
  • The Connection Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Community Partners in Action Inc: 95% of income from government
  • Connecticut Renaissance Inc: 59% of income from government
  • Community Solutions Inc: 57% of income from government
  • Justice Dance Performance Project Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
0get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
4rely 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 Watkinson Prisoners' Aid Society?

Find your warmest path to Watkinson Prisoners' Aid Society 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 11 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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