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Young Women's League of New Canaan

The YOUNG WOMEN'S LEAGUE OF NEW CANAAN is a group of dedicated women who are committed to enriching the community through volunteer service and fundraising efforts.

$58k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
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, FY2017 to 2022.

Human Services$47kHousing & Shelter$37kFood & Nutrition$34kYouth Development$30kHealth$26kEducation$25kRecreation & Sports$22kCrime & Legal$7k
02FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 2 grants below total $15,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $58,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $43,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.
$7,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$62k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FILLING IN THE BLANKS$7,500
DVCC$7,500
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.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–22, $51k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 6%CHILDREN'S CONNECTION: $15k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $10k → 9%ELDER HOUSE: $8k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $8k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $5k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION: $5k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$84k · 4 repeat orgs$137k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +176% since the first grant, against +51% for those funded once.

4 repeat relationships: 1 still active in FY2022, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

$84k
$129k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+176%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’21’22
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterEducationHealthRecreation & SportsYouth DevelopmentOther
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

  • CO
    CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC
    2× · 2017–2019 · $26k · revenue +364%
  • FI
    FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC
    3× · 2019–2022 · $23k · revenue +176%
  • UI
    URBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED
    3× · 2017–2021 · $20k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • HS
    HUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +3%
  • MC
    MORRY'S CAMP INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +48%
  • KH
    KIDS HELPING KIDS INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $10k · revenue +72%
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

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.

1
The Child Center of Ny Inc

The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

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2
The Friends of Crown Heights Educational Centers Inc

To provide a safe, affordable and comprehensive program of high-quality early childhood education, parental and family support, as well as academic enrichment and recreational programs.

Human Services
3
Center for Developmental Disabilities

The center's mission is to help children and adults with differing abilities achieve their dreams by overcoming barriers to living, working, learning & enjoying recreational opportunities in the community of their choice.

Human Services
4
Port Chester Carver Center Inc

Port chester carver center helps our community thrive through programs that nourish, educate, and empower.

Human Services
5
Community Housing Innovations Inc

Founded in 1991, community housing innovations, inc. (chi) is a not-for-profit organization serving several new york counties. chi's mission is to provide housing and human services that support social and economic independence. chi's…

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6
Family Centers Inc

Family centers inc. is a non-stock, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to empower children, adults, families and communities to realize their potential. for more information, see schedule o.

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7
Alternatives Inc

Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.

Human Services
8
Nysarc Inc New York City Chapter

We are committed to helping people with intellectual (cont. on schedule o) and developmental disabilities to live full lives.

Human Services
9
Bigs & Littles Nyc Mentoring Inc

Bigs & littles nyc mentoring is a nonprofit community-based organization which transforms the lives of vulnerable nyc children and strengthens families through professionally guided one-to-one mentoring, life skills programming, and…

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10
The Children's Community Programs of Ct

The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.

Health
11
Family and Children's Aid Inc

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.

Human Services
12
Covenant House New Jersey Inc

To provide shelter, food, medical and mental health care, legal services, educational and vocational services and an array of housing options, including transitional and permanent housing opportunities, for youth facing homelessness and…

Human Services
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc; the most unlike its peers is Circle of Care for Families of Children With Cancer Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

20 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. 20 of the 22 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $22,500 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE BLANKS INCHUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $15,300 · Human ServicesHUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INCELDERHOUSE INC: $8,000 · Human ServicesELDERHOUSE INCBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $7,000 · Human ServicesBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION IN…THE CARVER INC: $5,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARVER INCINSPIRICA INC: $15,000 · OtherINSPIRICA INCTHE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $9,200 · OtherTHE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG…DVCC: $7,500 · OtherDVCCCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $7,000 · OtherCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFU…COOK AND GROW: $6,000 · OtherCOOK AND GROWCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC: $5,000 · OtherCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTH…NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 · OtherNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATIO…THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $5,000 · OtherTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIE…URBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED: $20,000 · Housing & ShelterURBAN IMPACT OF B…MALTA HOUSE INC: $10,000 · Housing & ShelterMALTA HOUSE INCTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $5,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE OPEN DOOR SHE…CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC: $26,000 · HealthCIRCLE OF CA…ALL OUR KIN INC: $9,450 · EducationALL OUR KI…STARFISH CONNECTION INC: $7,500 · EducationSTARFISH C…ABC INC OF NEW CANAAN: $5,000 · EducationABC INC OF…MORRY'S CAMP INC: $15,000 · Recreation & SportsKIDS HELPING KIDS INC: $10,000 · Youth Development
Human Services$57,800Other$61,200Housing & Shelter$35,000Health$26,000Education$21,950Recreation & Sports$15,000Youth Development$10,000

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 budgetCIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC: $26,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $22,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetURBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED: $20,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetHUMAN SERVICES COUNCIL INC: $15,300 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMORRY'S CAMP INC: $15,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS HELPING KIDS INC: $10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetMALTA HOUSE INC: $10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC: $9,450 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $9,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetELDERHOUSE INC: $8,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSTARFISH CONNECTION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: $6,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetABC INC OF NEW CANAAN: $5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARVER INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…New Canaan Community …The Near and Far Asso…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Newman's Own Foundati…Peoples United Commun…Synchrony FoundationYoung Mens Christian …The Inner-City Founda…The John and Ethel Ka…Stamford Rotary Trust…The Tudor Foundation …
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT31.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Tudor Foundation Inc

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 Young Women's League of New Canaan funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Young Women's League of New Canaan. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Human Services Council Inc: 27% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc: 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely 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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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.

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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 e-file return for fiscal year 2022, released 2022. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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