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THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN (Connecticut) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,107,907 to it, the largest being THE RISC FOUNDATION INC ($13,366,237). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.

Revenue FY2024
$56M
Funders on record
70
Grants received
$26M
Net assets
$466M
35/70 repeat funders

Hosts funds for others

THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN 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 programTHE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN 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

$261M

Recipients

634

Contributions on record

$26M

Donors on record

70

Payments out run 10.0x 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.

01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($64M) Expenses 100 ($34M) Net assets 100 ($593M)2018 Revenue 85 ($54M) Expenses 117 ($39M) Net assets 91 ($539M)2019 Revenue 97 ($62M) Expenses 119 ($40M) Net assets 107 ($632M)2020 Revenue 92 ($59M) Expenses 132 ($44M) Net assets 122 ($721M)2021 Revenue 160 ($102M) Expenses 146 ($49M) Net assets 134 ($797M)2022 Revenue 115 ($74M) Expenses 284 ($96M) Net assets 106 ($630M)2023 Revenue 87 ($55M) Expenses 133 ($45M) Net assets 74 ($438M)2024 Revenue 87 ($56M) Expenses 128 ($43M) Net assets 79 ($466M)
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Revenue (87)Expenses (128)Net assets (79)

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $835M to $680M (−19%).

$595M
$546M
$646M
$745M
$835M
$680M
$712M
$627M
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Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 1% · 2019 1% · 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 2% · 2023 7% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

$30M
’17
$15M
’18
$21M
’19
$14M
’20
$53M
’21
−$22M
’22
$10M
’23
$12M
’24
7.7
months of
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.

Board chair

Marcella Nunez-Smith

Chair

As listed on its FY2024 Form 990.

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Listed1818181818181820
Joined·+2+2+1+1+2+3+5
No longer listed·2211233
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 9 funders to 17 funders, grant income rose $1.3M → $6.6M.

19 of 70 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 14% 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 70 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.

Where its funders are

89% of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

NY
MA
OH
NJ
CT
CO
KY
DE
NC
DC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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’22
’23
Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $3.7M arriving through sponsors registered in 12 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.

03Its place in the field

Government funding THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $10.8M on record.

Federal$10.8M
grants $10.8Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Health and Human Services$10.8M

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.

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

76% of spending goes to programs.

Program 76%Management 21%Fundraising 3%

Governance

14
board members
100%
independent
✓Conflict-of-interest policy✓Whistleblower policy✓Document retention✓Board reviewed the 990✓Audited financials

Public support

63%

Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.

Footprint & structure

Part of a family of 5 related entities

  • The Community Foundation Mission Investments Company LLC · disregarded
  • The Community Foundation for the Greater New Haven Inc · disregarded
  • The Valley Community Foundation Inc - 84-1637102 · exempt
  • Charitable Remainder Trusts (3) · corp_trust
  • Pooled Income Funds (7) · corp_trust

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A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN: 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.

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Questions and answers

Who funds THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN?
THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN (Connecticut) receives grants from 70 organizations whose IRS filings report $26,107,907 to it, the largest being THE RISC FOUNDATION INC ($13,366,237). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year. THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN 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 THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN have?
IRS filings report 70 organizations giving $26,107,907 in grants to THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN?
THE RISC FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $13,366,237 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION FOR GREATER NEW HAVEN 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 70 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