The Community Chest of New Britain
New Britain, CT · EIN 06-0662153. Reported 93 grants totalling $1,466,440 to 52 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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. For The Community Chest of New Britain, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 52 distinct organizations, with 22% 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. 31% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $11,500. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $15,000; the smallest was $5,625 and the largest $305,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Foundation of Greater New Britain Inc | New Britain, CT | $320,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Human Resources Agency of New Britain Inc | New Britain, CT | $60,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Friendship Service Center Inc | New Britain, CT | $55,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| New Britain Roots Inc | New Britain, CT | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Young Womens Christian Association New Britain | New Britain, CT | $42,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Foodshare | Wallingford, CT | $41,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Boys & Girls Club of New Britain Inc | New Britain, CT | $41,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Chrysalis Center Inc | Hartford, CT | $41,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Prudence Crandall Center Inc | New Britain, CT | $41,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Literacy Volunteers of Central Connecticut Inc | New Britain, CT | $36,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| New Life II Teaching You Another Way Ministries | New Britain, CT | $36,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Salvation Army | West Nyack, NY | $36,250 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Columbus House | New Haven, CT | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Gilead Community Services Inc | Middletown, CT | $35,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Greater New Britain Teen Pregnancy Prevention Inc | New Britain, CT | $34,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Senior Transportation Services Inc | New Britain, CT | $33,750 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ccarc Inc | New Britain, CT | $32,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc | Hartford, CT | $31,875 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Veterans Inc | Worcester, MA | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Junior Achievement USA | Colorado Spgs, CO | $27,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Consolidated School District of New Britain | New Britain, CT | $26,250 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Klingberg Family Centers Foundation Inc | New Britain, CT | $26,025 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ur Community Cares Inc | Manchester, CT | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| New Opportunities Inc | Waterbury, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Storytelling Center Inc | New London, CT | $19,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Wheeler Clinic Inc | Plainville, CT | $16,765 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Best Buddies International Inc | Miami, FL | $15,625 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Gifts of Love Inc | Avon, CT | $15,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Children's Law Center of Connecticut | Hartford, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Connecticut Health Insurance Exchange Dba Access Health Ct | Hartford, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Neighborhood Promise Inc | New Britain, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| New Britain Community Services Department | New Britain, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Opportunities Industrialization Center of New Britain Inc | New Britain, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Childrens Law Center Inc | Hartford, CT | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Mental Health Affiliates Inc | New Britain, CT | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Ccsu Foundation Inc | New Britain, CT | $11,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Coram Deo Inc | New Britain, CT | $11,250 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hospital for Special Care | New Britain, CT | $11,025 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Autism Familes Connecticut | West Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Foundation for Dental Outreach Inc | Southington, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Hartford Gay and Lesbian Health | Hartford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Local Initiatives Support Corporation | New York, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Malta House Inc | Norwalk, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| President & Fellows of Middlebury College | Middlebury, VT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Arts for Learning Connecticut | Hamden, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| B L F C Academy Inc | New Britain, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Healing Meals Foundation Corporation | Bloomfield, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Britain Youth Theater Inc | New Britain, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Queen Ann Nzinga Center Inc | Plainville, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Lumibility Inc | Westbrook, CT | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| New Britain Institute | New Britain, CT | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Family Forward Advocacy Ct | Kensington, CT | $5,625 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
25 of 52 (48%) 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.
- Community Foundation of Greater New Britain
DONATION TO DESIGNATED FUND - Human Resources Agency of New Britain Inc
COMMUNITY CHEST FUEL BANK - Friendship Service Center Inc
TOMASSO FAMILY COMMUNITY KITCHEN - Gilead Community Services Inc
GENERAL OPERATING AND FACILITIES IMPROVEMENT - New Opportunities of Greater Meriden
BERLIN FUEL ASSISTANCE FUND - Friendship Service Center
EMERGENCY SHELTER AND COMMUNITY KITCKEN
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 52 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.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 23 | $574,500 | $15,000 |
| 2022 | 13 | $233,000 | $15,000 |
| 2023 | 26 | $360,765 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 31 | $298,175 | $11,025 |
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
91% 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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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 $11,500 -- 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 The Community Chest of New Britain'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.
Address of record on the latest return: 74A Vine Street, New Britain, CT, 06052.
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