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New Haven Green Fund Inc

New Haven, CT · EIN 26-3730695. Reported 25 grants totalling $200,336 to 20 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, on Form 990 Schedule I.

20organizations funded
$7,783median reported grant
$200,336granted, 2021-2024
17%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. For New Haven Green Fund Inc, the IRS classifies it under environment rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE C32) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 20 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. 17% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below 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 $7,783. Half of what it reported fell between $7,000 and $9,800; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $10,000. 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
22 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 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
New Haven Leon Sister City Project IncNew Haven, CT$22,500332023
Gather New HavenNew Haven, CT$17,300222024
New Haven Ecology Project IncNew Haven, CT$17,000222023
New Haven-Urban Resources Initiative IncNew Haven, CT$15,000222023
10000 HawksEast Haven, CT$10,000112023
Southwest Conservation DistrictHamden, CT$10,000112021
Scsu FoundationNew Haven, CT$9,980112021
Huneebee Project IncNew Haven, CT$9,966112024
Cpen-Community Placemaking Engagement NetworkNew Haven, CT$9,800112023
Save the Sound IncNew Haven, CT$9,700112021
The Towers Foundation IncNew Haven, CT$8,500112024
East Shore Health DeptBranford, CT$8,000112024
Root Life LLCNew Haven, CT$8,000112024
Menunkatuck Audubon Society IncGuilford, CT$7,783112022
Save the SoundNew Haven, CT$7,549112022
Solar Youth IncNew Haven, CT$7,000112024
The Connecticut Audubon Society IncorporatedFairfield, CT$6,258112022
Havens Harvest IncNew Haven, CT$6,000112024
Coeea Fund IncWest Hartford, CT$5,000112024
Rivers Alliance of Connecticut IncLitchfield, CT$5,000112021

4 of 20 (20%) 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 kind of organizations it funds

By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 13 of 20 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.

Environment
7 orgs
Community Improvement
2 orgs
International Affairs
1 org
Food & Nutrition
1 org
Animal Welfare
1 org
Education
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
20216$50,180$8,850
20225$39,090$7,549
20236$51,100$8,650
20248$59,966$7,750

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

New Haven, CT
$148K
East Haven, CT
$10K
Hamden, CT
$10K
Branford, CT
$8K
Guilford, CT
$8K
Fairfield, CT
$6K
West Hartford, CT
$5K
Litchfield, CT
$5K

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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.

The Community Foundation for Greater New10 shared recipientsNewalliance Foundation Inc9 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund8 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation 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 $7,783 -- 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 New Haven Green Fund Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). 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: P O Box 206355, New Haven, CT, 06520.

EIN 26-3730695 · 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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