Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Inc
Norwich, CT · EIN 06-1539443. Reported 90 grants totalling $217,113 to 38 recipients across tax years 2020-2025. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.
Does this foundation accept applications?
Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Inc did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.
How big are its grants?
The median grant is $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $1,000 and $2,260; the smallest was $500 and the largest $7,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by name and state as they were written on the returns, so an organization entered under two different names appears twice. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which that name received money.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Madonna Place Inc | Norwich, CT | $14,250 | 6 | 6 | 2025 |
| Martin House | Norwich, CT | $12,250 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Arc Eastern Ct | Norwich, CT | $12,232 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| St Vincent De Paul Place | Norwich, CT | $12,000 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Thames River Community Service Inc | Norwich, CT | $11,500 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Thames Valley Council for Community Action | Jewett City, CT | $11,500 | 4 | 4 | 2025 |
| Veteran's Coffee House | Jewett City, CT | $10,000 | 2 | 1 | 2025 |
| Reliance Health | Norwich, CT | $9,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Slater Library | Jewett City, CT | $8,100 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Griswold Senion Center | Jewett City, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Jewett City Community Playground | Griswold, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Norwich Free Academy | Norwich, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Otis Library | Norwich, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Plainfield Senior Center | Plainfield, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Project Pin (poverty Isnt Necessary)food Pantry | Moosup, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| St Mary's Food Pantry | Jewett City, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| United Community Family Services (ucfs) | Norwich, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Norwich Rotary Foundation Inc | Bozrah, CT | $6,250 | 5 | 5 | 2024 |
| Griswold High School | Griswold, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Plainfield High School | Central Village, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Operation Fuel | Hartford, CT | $4,500 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| The Riseup Group | Hartford, CT | $4,031 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Catholic Charities Diocese of Norwich | Morwich, CT | $4,000 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| St Mary Food Pantry | Jewett City, CT | $4,000 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Safe Futures | New London, CT | $3,750 | 4 | 4 | 2023 |
| Norwich Community Backpack Program | Norwich, CT | $3,500 | 3 | 3 | 2022 |
| Rose City Learning Center | Norwich, CT | $2,500 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
| Covenant to Care for Children | Hartford, CT | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Eastern Ct Workforce Investment Board | Franklin, CT | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Ucfs Healthcare | Norwich, CT | $2,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Malta Inc | Groton, CT | $1,500 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| Echo Cancer Foundation | Norwich, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Habitat for Humanity Inc | New London, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Thames Valley Council for Cummunity Action (tvcca) | Jewett City, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Town of Plainfield- Veterans Coffee House | Plainfield, CT | $1,000 | 2 | 2 | 2021 |
| United Community and Family Services Inc | Norwich, CT | $1,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Norwich Human Services Safety Net Team | Norwich, CT | $750 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
| Eastern Ct Community Gardens Association | New London, CT | $500 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
19 of 38 (50%) received money in more than one year over the 6 years we hold.
Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 72%, across 5 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. This measures how often it paid the same organizations again. It says nothing about whether it would consider a new one.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose field of its filings. This is the closest thing to a statement of what this foundation cares about, in its own words.
- Madonna Place Inc
PURPOSE IS TO STRENGTHEN FAMILES, PROMOTE HEALTH & PREVENT CHILD ABUSE/NEGLECT - Martin House
PROVIDES AFFORDABLE, SINGLE-ROOM OCCUPANCY HOUSING WITH SUPPORT. RESIDENTS HAVE EXPERIENCED SUBSTANCE ABUSE, HOMELESSNESS, MENTAL HEALTH AND POVERTY. - St Vincent De Paul Place
OFFERS A VARIETY OF CRITICAL SERVICES FOR PEOPLE WHO ARE IN NEED OF FOOD, CARE, AND ADVOCACY. - Thames River Community Service Inc
PROVIDES TRANSITIONAL HOUSING AND SUPPORTIVE SERVICES TO FAMILIES IN NEED, HELPING THEM ACHIEVE STABILITY, SELF-SUFFICIENCY, AND BRIGHTER FUTURES. - Thames Valley Council for Community Action
ADVOCATING FOR, AND MEETING THE NEEDS OF, THE REGIONS ECONOMICALLY AND OTHERWISE DISADVANTAGED CITIZENS. - The Arc Eastern Ct
PROVIDES ADVOCACY AND SUPPORT TO PEOPLE WITH INTELLECTUAL AND DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION.
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 51 grants where we could match the recipient to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's. The match, made from the name and address on the return, is ours.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 18 | $16,000 | $1,000 |
| 2021 | 16 | $14,852 | $1,000 |
| 2022 | 11 | $14,200 | $1,000 |
| 2023 | 12 | $13,270 | $1,000 |
| 2024 | 11 | $14,760 | $1,500 |
| 2025 | 22 | $144,031 | $7,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. 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 foundation
- Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. A request many times that size asks for something it has rarely or never given.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Connecticut.
- Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
- Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Inc's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 6 returns (tax years 2020-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Matching recipients to registered organizations, their IRS classifications, the retention rate and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations, described in how we build this.
Address of record on the latest return: 257 Main Street, Norwich, CT, 06360. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.
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