Connecticut Network for Children and
Hartford, CT · EIN 06-1319872. Reported 106 grants totalling $4,435,485 to 59 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 59 distinct organizations, with 8% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 94% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 2 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $29,900. Half of what it reported fell between $15,000 and $47,075; the smallest was $6,888 and the largest $334,796. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eastconn Regional Educational Service Center Incorporated | Hampton, CT | $368,609 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Learn | Old Lyme, CT | $334,796 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Edadvance | Litchfield, CT | $300,025 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| United Way of Greater New Haven Inc | New Haven, CT | $268,300 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City of Hartford Dept of Familiies Children Youth and Recreation | Hartford, CT | $164,950 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| West Haven Child Development Center Inc Grants Office City Hall | West Haven, CT | $148,336 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation of Greater New Britain Inc | New Britain, CT | $144,117 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City of New Britain Board of Education | New Britain, CT | $127,017 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| Wethersfield Board of Education | Wethersfield, CT | $114,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Manchester Youth Service Bureau | Manchester, CT | $114,111 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Community Health Resources Inc | Windsor, CT | $111,700 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc | Danbury, CT | $104,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Area Cooperative Educational Services | North Haven, CT | $102,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Waterbury Bridge to Success Partnership Inc | Waterbury, CT | $100,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| City of Bridgeport | Bridgeport, CT | $90,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Way of West Central Ct | Bristol, CT | $89,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Partnership for Children Inc | Seymour, CT | $79,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Colchester Public Schools | Colchester, CT | $76,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| City of Stamford | Stamford, CT | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Norwalk Acts Inc | Norwalk, CT | $74,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Bridge Family Center Inc | West Hartford, CT | $74,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| United Way of Coastal Fairfield County Inc | Bridgeport, CT | $74,150 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Groton Board of Education | Groton, CT | $72,769 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc | Torrington, CT | $69,142 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Town of Vernon | Vernon, CT | $65,782 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Middletown Board of Education | Middletown, CT | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Bristol | Bristol, CT | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| City of Norwalk | Norwalk, CT | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Hartford Public Schools | East Hartford, CT | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Creation Foundation Inc | Bloomfield, CT | $56,645 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut | New London, CT | $56,598 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Town of West Hartford | West Hartford, CT | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Cooperative Educational Services | Trumbull, CT | $48,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc | Waterbury, CT | $44,141 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Borough of Naugatuck | Naugatuck, CT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Haven Public Schools | East Haven, CT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Integrated Health Services Inc | East Hartford, CT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of Winchester | Winsted, CT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Windsor Locks Public Schools | Windsor Locks, CT | $33,756 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of Windham | Willimantic, CT | $30,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Advancing Connecticut Together Inc | Hartford, CT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| City of Milford | Milford, CT | $29,800 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Meriden | Meriden, CT | $26,570 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Mens Christian Association Inc | Meriden, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| New Creation Foundation Inc | Springfield, MA | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club and Family Center of Bristol Inc | Bristol, CT | $24,061 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Organized Parents Make a Difference Inc | Hartford, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Plainville Board of Education | Plainville, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Roscco Stamford School Community Organization Inc | Stamford, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Stratford Board of Education | Stratford, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Haven Community House Assoc Inc | West Haven, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Young Womens Christian Association New Britain | New Britain, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Boys Club & Girls Club of Bridgeport Inc | Bridgeport, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Regional YMCA of Western Connecticut Inc | Brookfield, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Town of Wolcott | Wolcott, CT | $13,960 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of New Britain Inc | New Britain, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Coventry Board of Education | Coventry, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Crec | Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Mcgivney Community Center Inc | Bridgeport, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
24 of 59 (41%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Learn
LECC SUPPORT & TRANSITION AND LGP STABILIZATION GRANTS - United Way of Greater New Haven
PRESCHOOL DEVELOPMENT GRANT SUPPORT - Ct Association for Human Services
CT EARLY CHILDHOOD ALLIANCE SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 21 of 59 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 11 | $204,061 | $20,000 |
| 2022 | 23 | $335,475 | $12,075 |
| 2023 | 24 | $1,075,920 | $43,547 |
| 2024 | 48 | $2,820,029 | $40,000 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
99% of its giving went to organizations in Connecticut. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $29,900 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Connecticut Network for Children and's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 48 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 1409, Hartford, CT, 06143.
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