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Amplify Inc

Glastonbury, CT · EIN 06-0935780. Reported 95 grants totalling $902,383 to 37 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

37organizations funded
$7,142median reported grant
$902,383granted, 2020-2024
74%of grantees funded again the next year
11%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. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 37 distinct organizations, with 11% 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. 74% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and above 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 $7,142. Half of what it reported fell between $5,663 and $12,103; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $42,161. 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
64 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
29 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 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
Andover Hebron Marlborough Youth ServicesHebron, CT$100,604552024
Town of Enfield Dept of Social ServicesEnfield, CT$83,160552024
Southington Steps Coalition Youth ServicesSouthington, CT$54,013442024
Bristol Parks Recreation Youth & Community ServicesBristol, CT$50,760552024
Town of ManchesterManchester, CT$50,760552024
New Britain Youth & Family ServicesNew Britain, CT$45,238652024
Mccall Foundation IncTorrington, CT$42,784442024
Newington Human ServicesNewington, CT$40,989542023
South Windsor Alliance for FamiliesSouth Windsor, CT$35,510552024
United Way of Central and Northeastern CtHartford, CT$33,269332023
Town of WethersfieldWethersfield, CT$30,510552024
Farmington Youth ServicesFarmington, CT$25,168442024
Vernon Rocks CoalitionVernon, CT$25,168442024
Catalyst Ct IncBridgeport, CT$22,565222024
Windsor Locks Wellness CoalitionWindsor Locks, CT$21,999222024
Town of GlastonburyGlastonbury, CT$21,289332024
Town of TollandTolland, CT$21,256222024
Town of East HartfordEast Hartford, CT$20,949332023
Town of StaffordStafford, CT$20,212222021
Town of West HartfordWest Hartford, CT$19,284222024
Suffield Youth ServicesSuffield, CT$16,256222023
Bolton Public SchoolsBolton, CT$15,602112022
Town of Windsor Youth ServicesWindsor, CT$14,684222021
Town of East WindsorEast Windsor, CT$8,020112024
Avon Department of Social ServicesAvon, CT$7,103112021
Berlin Social and Youth ServicesBerlin, CT$7,103112021
Ellington Youth ServicesEllington, CT$7,103112021
Plymouth Local Prevention CouncilTerryville, CT$7,103112021
Rocky Hill YsbRocky Hill, CT$7,103112021
Town of BloomfieldBloomfield, CT$7,103112021
Town of PlainvilleWhiting Street, CT$7,103112021
Windsor Locks Youth ServicesChurch Street, CT$7,103112021
Granby Youth ServicesGranby, CT$5,170112021
Town of CantonCollinsville, CT$5,170112021
Town of SomersSomers, CT$5,170112021
New Life II Teaching You Another Way MinistriesNew Britain, CT$5,000112020
Southeastern Regional Action Council on Substance Abuse IncNorwich, CT$5,000112020

22 of 37 (59%) 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 2 of 37 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.

Human Services
1 org
Religion
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202016$116,477$6,582
202129$292,586$9,142
202216$124,577$7,142
202317$155,372$8,973
202417$213,371$8,020

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

Hebron, CT
$101K
Enfield, CT
$83K
Southington, CT
$54K
Bristol, CT
$51K
Manchester, CT
$51K
New Britain, CT
$50K
Torrington, CT
$43K
Newington, CT
$41K

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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 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.

Center for Technology and Civic Life16 shared recipientsHartford Foundation for Public Giving10 shared recipientsWheeler Clinic Inc6 shared recipientsNorth Central Area Agency on Aging6 shared recipientsThe Hometown Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsConnecticut Humanities Council Inc5 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 $7,142 -- 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.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Amplify Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). 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.

Address of record on the latest return: 178 Oakwood Drive, Glastonbury, CT, 06033.

EIN 06-0935780 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded.

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