Main Street Community Foundation Inc
Bristol, CT · EIN 06-1433299. Reported 195 grants totalling $4,378,114 to 73 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, 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. For Main Street Community Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T310).
- How spread out its giving is. 73 distinct organizations, with 25% 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. 67% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 56% median for grantmaking charities -- lower than 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 $11,040. Half of what it reported fell between $7,100 and $23,000; the smallest was $5,100 and the largest $221,885. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bristol Family Resource Centers | Bristol, CT | $1,087,722 | 21 | 5 | 2025 |
| Bristol Boys & Girls Club Association Inc | Bristol, CT | $444,930 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| United Way of West Central Ct | Bristol, CT | $351,884 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Bristol Hospital Incorporated | Bristol, CT | $209,959 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $207,724 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Tunxis Community College Foundation Inc | Farmington, CT | $180,680 | 6 | 5 | 2025 |
| Environmental Learning Centers of Connecticut Inc | Bristol, CT | $144,815 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Bristol Hospital Development Foundation Inc | Bristol, CT | $124,250 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| West Cemetery Association of Bristol Connecticut Inc | Bristol, CT | $106,520 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| New England Carousel Museum Inc | Bristol, CT | $105,095 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| American Clock & Watch Museum Inc | Bristol, CT | $82,462 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Vincent Depaul Mission of Bristol Inc | Bristol, CT | $74,861 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Bristol Adult Resource Center Inc | Bristol, CT | $74,280 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Southington Community Services | Plantsville, CT | $71,240 | 3 | 2 | 2025 |
| Prudence Crandall Center Inc | New Britain, CT | $71,020 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Wheeler Clinic Inc | Plainville, CT | $64,740 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Shepard Meadows Equestrian Center Inc | Bristol, CT | $58,575 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Andrew Evangelical Lutheran Church | Bristol, CT | $57,988 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Horace Bushnell Memorial Hall Corporation | Hartford, CT | $54,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| The Southington-Cheshire Community Ymcas Inc | Southington, CT | $42,670 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Plymouth Community Food Pantry | Terryville, CT | $42,345 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Family Center Incorporated | Bristol, CT | $42,105 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Opportunity House Inc | Hamden, CT | $34,180 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Stone Ridge Foundation | Altavista, VA | $34,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Bread for Life Inc | Southington, CT | $27,838 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Joe and Kay Calvanese Foundation Incorporated | Plantsville, CT | $27,728 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Veterans Strong Community Center Inc | Bristol, CT | $27,045 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Bristol Police Union | Bristol, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Parc Inc Plainville | Plainville, CT | $23,800 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Southington Community Cultural Arts Inc | Southington, CT | $23,060 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Childrens Law Center Inc | Hartford, CT | $22,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc | Hartford, CT | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Kellys Kids Inc | Prospect, CT | $22,200 | 3 | 2 | 2024 |
| East Coast Assistance Dogs Inc | Torrington, CT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Young Womens Christian Association New Britain | New Britain, CT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Grandanse Health & Development Association | Brick, NJ | $19,999 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Bristol Symphony Orchestra Inc | Bristol, CT | $19,535 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Bristol Works Inc | Bristol, CT | $17,800 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Agape House Inc | Bristol, CT | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greator Bristol Historical Society Inc | Bristol, CT | $14,540 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bristol Child Development Center Inc | Bristol, CT | $13,958 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Plainville Community Pantry Inc | Plainville, CT | $13,428 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Polish American Foundation of Connecticut Inc | New Britain, CT | $12,337 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Meals for Neighbors | Bristol, CT | $12,160 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Central Connecticut Online Journalism Project Inc | Bristol, CT | $12,025 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Productions for Change | Bristol, CT | $11,650 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Little League Baseball Inc | Bristol, CT | $11,250 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Southington Manna Fund Inc | Southington, CT | $10,927 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association | Windsor Locks, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Emmanuel Baptist Church | Newington, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Community Foundation of Greater New Britain Inc | New Britain, CT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| National Conference for Community and Justice | Middletown, CT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Hill-Stead Museum | Farmington, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Rmhc Ctma | New Haven, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Burlington Library Association Inc | Burlington, CT | $6,960 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of Plainville | Plainville, CT | $6,710 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Junior Achievement of Southwest New England | Hartford, CT | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| New Britain Museum of American Art Inc | New Britain, CT | $6,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Jane Doe No More Incorporated | Naugatuck, CT | $6,016 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Bristol Girls Little League Softball | Bristol, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc | Bloomfield, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Operation Fuel Inc | Hartford, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Rebuilding Together in Litchfield County Connecticut Inc | Bantam, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Renbrook School Incorporated | West Hartford, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| The Tavern Day Group | Burlington, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Town of Burlington - Social Services | Burlington, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Southington Public Library | $5,525 | 1 | 1 | 2023 | |
| First Congregational Church United Church of Christ | Bristol, CT | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Tylives Make It Different Foundation | Southington, CT | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Burlington Volunteer Fire Dept Inc | Burlington, CT | $5,378 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc | Hartford, CT | $5,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Grace Baptist Church | Bristol, CT | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Plainville Board of Education | Plainville, CT | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
40 of 73 (55%) received money in more than one year over the 5 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.
- City of Bristol
GRANTS FOR LIBRARY SERVICES AND EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES - Boys & Girls Club of Bristol Family Center
GENERAL SUPPORT; GRANTS FOR YOUTH DEVELOPMENT; CAPITAL CAMPAIGN SUPPORT - United Way of West Central Ct
GENERAL/PROGRAM/UNRESTRICTED OPERATING SUPPORT - The Salvation Army
GRANTS FOR GENERAL SUPPORT AND SUPPORT OF SOUP KITCHEN - Salvation Army
GENERAL/UNRESTRICTED OPERATING SUPPORT & CAM ACADEMY - Bristol Hospital
ANNUAL PAYMENT FOR UNRESTRICTED GENERAL SUPPORT
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 44 of 73 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 41 | $737,923 | $11,300 |
| 2022 | 37 | $867,876 | $10,000 |
| 2023 | 35 | $865,434 | $10,910 |
| 2024 | 40 | $997,792 | $10,090 |
| 2025 | 42 | $909,089 | $12,060 |
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
94% 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.
Down to the city
Foundations that fund only organizations they pick gave to this one
7 private foundations that told the IRS they contribute only to organizations they select themselves reported 35 grants totalling $157,687 to Main Street Community Foundation Inc. That is 35% of the 20 funders we can see giving to it. Those 7 foundations do not take unsolicited requests -- their own returns say so. The IRS classifies this organization as a community foundation.
3 of them gave in more than one tax year, which is the only durability signal the filings carry.
What that does not mean. It does not mean an application here reaches that money. A grant from a closed foundation is often a designated gift or a donor-advised fund earmarked by whoever gave it, and has nothing to do with any open programme this organization runs. Neither tax return says which, so neither do we. The list below is who put money in. It is not a route to it.
| Foundation | State | Reported | Grants | Years | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Robert Rosenheim Foundation Inc | Connecticut | $100,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Sky Bight Foundation Inc | Connecticut | $34,450 | 20 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Stocker Foundation | Ohio | $21,214 | 8 | 5 | 2025 |
| Pajor Family Foundation | Nevada | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Amazonsmile Foundation | Washington | $748 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Amica Companies Foundation | Rhode Island | $175 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| L Suzio Family Foundation | Connecticut | $100 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
A linked name has a page of its own. We publish one for a foundation that takes no unsolicited requests only when a real share of its giving goes to organizations that make grants themselves, and that page opens by saying it does not take requests.
Both the count and the total are floors. A foundation appears here only where its return named this organization clearly enough for us to match the name to an EIN, which we manage for about two thirds of 990-PF grant rows. There are more; we cannot name them.
Get funders for your state and cause by email
We email you funders that gave to organizations in your state and cause, up to five at a time each week and never the same one twice, from their own IRS filings. Free. The weekly email has not started yet.
Unsubscribe in one click from any email. We never sell or share your address. To match on your organization and typical grant size too, keep a private profile.
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 $11,040 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Main Street Community Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). 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 39 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 2 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 2702 120 Halcyon Drive, Bristol, CT, 06011.
EIN 06-1433299 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this
Is something here wrong about your organization? Email hello@funderscope.com and we will correct it.