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The Prosperity Foundation Inc

New Haven, CT · EIN 47-4364468. Reported 80 grants totalling $2,471,043 to 43 organizations across tax years 2023-2024, 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:

1. What kind of organization it is. For The Prosperity Foundation Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P20) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
2. How spread out its giving is. 43 distinct organizations, with 21% 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. 100% 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 $17,500. Half of what it reported fell between $12,500 and $21,000; the smallest was $6,864 and the largest $471,000. 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.

26 of 43 (60%) received money in more than one year over the 2 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.

• Blue Hills Civic $471,000 · 2024
  THE GRANT IS PROVIDED TO GRANTEES IN ORDER TO ADVANCE THEIR NONPROFIT MISSION AND VISION
• Wlm Ministries $37,500 · 2023
  RESTORING THE VILLAGE, AN INITIATIVE OF WLM MINISTRIES, INC., FOCUSES ON ADDRESSING COMMUNITY AND GUN VIOLENCE IN URBAN AREAS OF NEW HAVEN BY BUILDING COMMUNITY TRUST, COLLABORATION, AND LEADERSHIP, WITH A STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS OF RACE TO CORRECT DISPARITIES, SEEKING FUNDING FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT AND CAPACITY BUILDING.
• Blue Hills Civic Association $30,000 · 2023
  BHCA ESTABLISHED PARTNERSHIPS WITH FAMILIES TO ENGAGE THEM IN THEIR CHILDREN'S EDUCATION; COLLABORATED WITH COMMUNITY AGENCIES TO PROVIDE SUPPORT SERVICES FOR STUDENTS' ACADEMIC SUCCESS AND WELL-BEING VIA AFTERSCHOOL PROGRAMS, TUTORING AND WORKING WITH TEACHERS; AND IMPROVED STUDENT BEHAVIOR, ATTENDANCE, GRADES, (BAG) AND OVERALL WELL-BEING THROUGH WHOLISTIC SUPPORT. STUDENTS WERE GIVEN STIPENDS/INCENTIVES FOR PARTICIPATING IN THE IN SCHOOL AND AFTER SCHOOL PROGRAMS AND SUCCESSFULLY COMPLETING TRAINING AND CERTIFICATION SESSIONS.
• Elm City Go Karting Association Inc $22,500 · 2023
  ELM CITY GO KART ASSOCIATION, INC. IS A NEW HAVEN, CT-BASED NON-PROFIT 501(C)(3) ORGANIZATION. ELM CITY GO KART ASSOCIATION SEEKS FUNDING FOR ITS PROGRAM YOUTH ON THE GO KART WHICH PROVIDES RECREATION AND EDUCATION TO YOUTH, AGES 7-18, WHO LIVE IN LOW-INCOME NEIGHBORHOODS IN NEW HAVEN, CT. THE PURPOSE OF YOUTH ON THE GO KART IS TO PROVIDE INNER-CITY YOUTH WITH A POSITIVE, FUN, AND INTERACTIVE GROUP RECREATIONAL ACTIVITY. THE GOAL OF YOUTH ON THE GO KART IS TO PROMOTE COMRADERY AND HEALTHY COMPETITION, DEVELOP TEAM-BUILDING SKILLS, AND EXPOSE YOUTH TO STEM CONCEPTS INVOLVED IN BUILDING, DESIGNING, AND RACING GO KARTS.
• Emerge Connecticut Inc $22,500 · 2023
  EMERGE CONNECTICUT IS A NONPROFIT SOCIAL ENTERPRISE HELPING FORMERLY INCARCERATED INDIVIDUALS REINTEGRATE INTO THEIR COMMUNITIES THROUGH A DUAL MODEL THAT COMBINES PAID WORK WITH TRAUMA-INFORMED SUPPORT, RESULTING IN IMPRESSIVE EMPLOYMENT AND RECIDIVISM OUTCOMES WHILE COLLABORATING WITH OTHER NONPROFITS TO OFFER VALUABLE PROGRAMS AND OPPORTUNITIES FOR ITS PARTICIPANTS.
• Fixing Fathers Inc $22,500 · 2023
  FIXING FATHERS, INC. IS A COMMUNITY-DRIVEN ORGANIZATION DEDICATED TO EMPOWERING FAMILIES AFFECTED BY THE WAR ON DRUGS THROUGH INNOVATIVE PROGRAMS SUCH AS HBCU COLLEGE TOURS, FREE GROOMING SERVICES, CHESS, COMMUNITY-BUILDING ACTIVITIES, AND FORTHCOMING INITIATIVES TO SUPPORT MEN WITH CRIMINAL RECORDS AND CHILD SUPPORT DEBT, AS WELL AS AN INAUGURAL SELF-ESTEEM PROGRAM FOR AFRICAN AMERICAN GIRLS, FOSTERING POSITIVE CHANGE AND COLLABORATIONS WITH ORGANIZATIONS LIKE RELIANT BEHAVIORAL HEALTH AND COMMUNITY SERVICES (RBHCS) AND STREET TO STRAIGHT.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 34 of 43 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 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 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.

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 $17,500 -- 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 The Prosperity Foundation 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.

Address of record on the latest return: 1287 Chapel Street, New Haven, CT, 06511.

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