Connecticut · Nonprofit
MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC
MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $669,806 to it, the largest being ROBERT ROSENHEIM FOUNDATION INC ($195,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year. MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programMAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$7.0M
Recipients
90
Contributions on record
$680k
Donors on record
26
Payments out run 10.2x the contributions on record, which says the incoming side is incomplete rather than that the vehicle is unusually busy: most donors to a fund like this are individuals, who file no return for us to read.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Incshared funderslocal
- Scholarship America Incportfolio match
- Council of Michigan Foundationsportfolio match
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.
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: 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose $38k → $101k.
7 of 25 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.
From the IRS filings of MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). 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.
Where its funders are
74% of MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $86k 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.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 25 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Community Chest of New Britain and Berlin Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · funds 45 organizations near you
- Scholarship America Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Council of Michigan Foundationsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Pasquale and Donna Maiorino Charitable Fd - Portland Tr Co LLCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kinman-Oldfield Fam Fdn Trportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cfleadsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kent Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Independent Colleges of Indiana Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sentry Insurance Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bosch Community Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dechomai Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William T & Ann D McCormick Educational and Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
71% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
57%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Bradley Henry Barnes and Leila Barnes Memorial Trust · exempt
- Frederick T Manross Trust · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
- MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 25 organizations whose IRS filings report $669,806 to it, the largest being ROBERT ROSENHEIM FOUNDATION INC ($195,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year. MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC have?
- IRS filings report 25 organizations giving $669,806 in grants to MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC?
- ROBERT ROSENHEIM FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $195,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MAIN STREET COMMUNITY FOUNDATION 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.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 25funders 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 August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing