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GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC)
GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) (Connecticut) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,566,583 to it, the largest being Oechsle Family Foundation Inc ($375,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- $801k
- Funders on record
- 41
- Grants received
- $1.6M
- Net assets
- $1.7M
What Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc) does
Mission
Community gardening, land conservation and environmental education are the primary activities. The community gardening program assists in development and maintenance of gardens with materials and neighborhood outreach. The land program acquires and preserves open space.
As stated on its FY2024 Form 990.
Programs
Gardening and nature preservescommunity gardening: 45 community gardens across the city of new haven, providing technical assistance and supplies. We work with neighborhood residents, tenant associations, block watches, social service agencies, schools, youth groups, and the elderly. By supporting community vegetable gardens, we help provide productive hubs of activity that benefit the community in many ways. The gardens clean up the soil, beautify the neighborhoods, and provide an avenue for healthy exercise, stress relief, enhanced emotional wellbeing, socializing, and skill development. It also becomes a family opportunity to work together and teach sustainable living while enjoying delicious home grown bounty. Many of the gardens are in resource-poor, low-income neighborhoods providing access to nutritious food that is free or low-cost, thus easing the strain on household budgets and helping with disease prevention.farm stand:weekly saturday farm stand at ferry street farm and free food distribution at fair haven library that run from memorial day weekend through october. Fresh vegetables and herbs grown organically on our urban farm sites, as well as occasional offerings from…
$208,223 spent$5,890 earned by the program29% of program spendingWellness programfarm based wellness: the farm-based wellness program benefits low-income families of new haven who face risks for chronic diet related disease. This program grew out of fair haven community health care's diabetes prevention program. Participants are referred from healthcare providers and live within 200% of the federal poverty line. They participate in 16 consecutive weeks of hands-on education on the farm in this family based wellness program. The program continues on a monthly basis during the off-season. Participants receive baskets of fresh, organic farm produce on a weekly basis for the season, and attend one two-hour, on-farm educational session weekly. During those sessions, members participate in cooking classes and are given nutrition information about the nutrient-dense foods that they harvest that week, with culturally-relevant recipes for them to try at home. They are taught how to plant, harvest, and tend the vegetables, which gives them the added health benefit of being physically active. In addition, members participate in exercise classes and receive guided meditation practice to address all components of health and wellness. Graduates from the fbwp…
$131,264 spentof which $13,355 as grants$27,035 earned by the program18% of program spendingSchooner day camp: schooner day camp provides land and sea-based programming on new haven's unique coastline through sailing lessons and shoreline habitat environmental education. Campers learn about the habitats and ecosystems of the long island sound, the water systems of the long island sound, pollution, and sustainability, all while having fun in the summer sun. Schooner camp takes place yearly between june - august at gather's long wharf nature preserve. The program serves 80 campers per week, with a goal of 50% being scholarship eligible. Schooner summer camp brings together 350 youths between the ages of 6-16 from diverse backgrounds of new haven to develop their leadership and life skills through sailing lessons, learning about the environment and building relationships through other camp activities. Growing entrepreneurs:the growing entrepreneurs program was started in 2016 to provide green jobs and professional skills training to low-income youth in new haven. Students in the program learn about environmental issues that affect their communities, complete projects at community farms and gardens throughout the city, and learn business/entrepreneurial skills through small…
$373,873 spent$178,062 earned by the program52% of program spending
The 3 programs described on its FY2024 Form 990, listed largest first by expense. Program spending in total: $713,360.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from $1.8M to $2.1M (+16%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 15% · 2018 12% · 2019 16% · 2020 2% · 2021 18% · 2022 13% · 2023 8% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
70% of GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC)’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (88% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Chief executive
Jonathon Savage
Executive director
As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 10 funders to 14 funders, grant income rose $71k → $368k.
8 of 41 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 13% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $39k from one payer (the payer shares this organization's board, largest New Haven Farms Inc). These are real filings, and they are not money GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) raised.
From the IRS filings of GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 41 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 24% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 funders to its left
31% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 28% · 2018 18% · 2019 32% · 2020 22% · 2021 37% · 2022 45% · 2023 44% — growing more concentrated.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
33% of GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 12 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $210k arriving through sponsors registered in 6 states is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC)'s funding base is broadening — from 10 funders to 14 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,264 environment nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government funding GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $279k on record.
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$183k
- State Aid Grants$91k
- Land-Bridge Appr/Rights Of Way$5k
- Management Consultant Services$200
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC)
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
99%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
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Questions and answers
- Who funds GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC)?
- GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) (Connecticut) receives grants from 41 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,566,583 to it, the largest being Oechsle Family Foundation Inc ($375,000). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) have?
- IRS filings report 41 organizations giving $1,566,583 in grants to GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC), 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC)?
- Oechsle Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $375,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC) find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 41 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing