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Amplify Inc

Glastonbury, CT · EIN 06-0935780. Reported 78 grants totalling $689,012 to 36 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

36organizations funded
$7,142median reported grant
$689,012granted, 2020-2023
73%of grantees funded again the next year
8%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. 36 distinct organizations, with 8% 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. 73% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. 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 $7,142. Half of what it reported fell between $5,663 and $10,896; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $18,961. 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
54 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
24 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$58,443442023
Southington Steps Coalition Youth ServicesSouthington, CT$46,871332023
Town of Enfield Dept of Social ServicesEnfield, CT$44,018442023
Bristol Parks Recreation Youth & Community ServicesBristol, CT$43,618442023
Town of ManchesterManchester, CT$43,618442023
Newington Human ServicesNewington, CT$40,989542023
New Britain Youth & Family ServicesNew Britain, CT$38,096542023
United Way of Central and Northeastern CtHartford, CT$33,269332023
Mccall Foundation IncTorrington, CT$31,888332023
South Windsor Alliance for FamiliesSouth Windsor, CT$25,168442023
Town of WethersfieldWethersfield, CT$25,168442023
Town of East HartfordEast Hartford, CT$20,949332023
Town of StaffordStafford, CT$20,212222021
Farmington Youth ServicesFarmington, CT$19,826332023
Vernon Rocks CoalitionVernon, CT$19,826332023
Suffield Youth ServicesSuffield, CT$16,256222023
Glastonbury Community Action PartnershipGlastonbury, CT$15,626222022
Bolton Public SchoolsBolton, CT$15,602112022
Town of Windsor Youth ServicesWindsor, CT$14,684222021
Town of TollandTolland, CT$12,103112021
Windsor Locks Wellness CoalitionWindsor Locks, CT$8,306112023
Town of West HartfordWest Hartford, CT$7,142112022
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
Catalyst Ct IncBridgeport, CT$5,000112020
New Life II Teaching You Another Way MinistriesNew Britain, CT$5,000112020
Southeastern Regional Action Council on Substance Abuse IncNorwich, CT$5,000112020

18 of 36 (50%) 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.

What kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 2 of 36 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.

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

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
$58K
Southington, CT
$47K
Enfield, CT
$44K
Bristol, CT
$44K
Manchester, CT
$44K
New Britain, CT
$43K
Newington, CT
$41K
Hartford, CT
$33K

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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.

Center for Technology and Civic Life16 shared recipientsHartford Foundation for Public Giving10 shared recipientsThe Hometown Foundation Inc6 shared recipientsNorth Central Area Agency on Aging5 shared recipientsWheeler Clinic Inc4 shared recipientsCommunity Foundation of Greater New4 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 4 returns (tax years 2020-2023). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.

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, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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