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Hope for New Haven Inc

New Haven, CT · EIN 06-1614992. Reported 47 grants totalling $1,479,845 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

36organizations funded
$25,000median reported grant
$1,479,845granted, 2021-2024
89%of grantees funded again the next year
9%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. What kind of organization it is. For Hope for New Haven Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P46) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 36 distinct organizations, with 9% 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.
  3. How much its list changes. 89% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 1 year-to-year transition. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $25,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,150 and $61,254; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $86,625. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
17 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
6 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
15 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
Ms Mia's Tlc Group DaycareNew Haven, CT$135,379222024
Scholastic RenaissanceBridgeport, CT$126,979222024
Every Child AheadHamden, CT$124,786222024
Growing Up Together DaycareNew Haven, CT$124,629222024
Lil Sunshine Home Day Care LLCBridgeport, CT$124,629222024
Arms of Love Family Academy IncNew Haven, CT$99,627222024
West Haven Child Development Center Inc Grants Office City HallWest Haven, CT$92,097222024
It Takes a Village Learning CenterWest Haven, CT$86,625112023
It Takes a Village Learning CenterWest Haven Ct, CT$82,000112024
Baby Me Day CareNew Haven, CT$75,210332024
Noah's Ark DaycareHamden, CT$62,977222024
Atlas Training CenterCromwell, CT$52,800112024
Morning Glory Early Learning CenterNew Haven, CT$30,000112021
HavenlyNew Haven, CT$27,011112024
Friends Center for Children IncNew Haven, CT$25,000112024
Harris & Tucker SchoolHamden, CT$24,131112021
Kiddie Korner DaycareNew Haven, CT$21,196112021
Creative Kids Early Learning CenterHamden, CT$16,596112021
Area Cooperative Educational ServicesNew Haven, CT$14,292112024
Nasir Youth Interest GroupNew Haven, CT$13,400222024
Advanced Childcare CenterNew Haven, CT$12,505112021
First Step Learning CenterNew Haven, CT$10,000112024
Mis Mia's Tlc Group DaycareNew Haven, CT$9,527112021
The Learning CenterHamden, CT$8,980112024
Gentle Hands Academy DaycareNew Haven, CT$8,970112021
Lil Sunshine Home Day CareBridgeport, CT$8,362112021
Creative MeNew Haven, CT$7,500112024
Upon This Rock Academy Center IncNew Haven, CT$7,500112024
Scholastic RenaissanceBridgeport, CT$7,215112021
M&m House of Love Day CareNew Haven, CT$6,474112021
Inspired Communities IncNew Haven, CT$6,270112024
Linares Family Day CareNew Haven, CT$6,231112021
The Learning Curve Day Care CenterHamden, CT$5,500112021
Babe's Day CareNew Haven, CT$5,357112021
Motherlyluv TooNew Haven, CT$5,090112021
Kidz Tyme Learning CenterNew Haven, CT$5,000112024

10 of 36 (28%) received money in more than one year over the 3 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 5 of 36 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.

Community Improvement
2 orgs
Employment
1 org
Human Services
1 org
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202117$214,162$8,858
20239$528,000$63,375
202421$737,683$30,727

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

New Haven, CT
$656K
Bridgeport, CT
$267K
Hamden, CT
$243K
West Haven, CT
$179K
West Haven Ct, CT
$82K
Cromwell, CT
$53K

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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 the strongest signal available that two funders have overlapping priorities -- and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

The Community Foundation for Greater New11 shared recipientsWomen's Business Development Council7 shared recipientsUnited Way of Greater New Haven Inc4 shared recipientsYale University3 shared recipientsThe Connecticut Project Inc2 shared recipientsNewalliance Foundation Inc2 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $25,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
  4. 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 Hope for New Haven Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 0 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 21 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: 81 Olive St, New Haven, CT, 06511.

EIN 06-1614992 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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