Community Foundation of
Middletown, CT · EIN 06-1477711. Reported 125 grants totalling $3,666,897 to 68 organizations across tax years 2021-2024, 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:
- What kind of organization it is. For Community Foundation of, the IRS classifies it as a community foundation (NTEE T31).
- How spread out its giving is. 68 distinct organizations, with 10% 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.
- How much its list changes. 60% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is about the 57% median for grantmaking charities -- noticeably lower than the 67% private foundations manage. Organizations like this one rotate more of their list each year, which is where an opening for a newcomer tends to be.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,000. Half of what it reported fell between $8,938 and $37,588; the smallest was $5,272 and the largest $150,000. 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.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nature Conservancy | Arlington, VA | $369,921 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | Wallingford, CT | $298,224 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Madison Community Services Inc | Madison, CT | $297,717 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Healing Meals Foundation Corporation | Bloomfield, CT | $283,202 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| House of Bread Inc | Hartford, CT | $283,202 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St John Roman Catholic Church | Middletown, CT | $169,350 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| St John Paul II Regional School | Middletown, CT | $158,850 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc | South Norwalk, CT | $150,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Hampton Volunteer Food Bank Inc | East Hampton, CT | $142,927 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Bread for Life Inc | Southington, CT | $117,863 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Friends of Southington Community Services | Plantsville, CT | $117,863 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Zion Lutheran Church | Manchester, CT | $108,380 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Middletown Public Schools | Middletown, CT | $82,057 | 4 | 3 | 2024 |
| Food Pantry of North Branford Inc | N Branford, CT | $61,782 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Honor Rotary a Foundation for Colchester Inc | Colchester, CT | $59,269 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Cromwell Belden Public Library | Cromwell, CT | $56,794 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Gilead Community Services Inc | Middletown, CT | $51,991 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Plainville Community Pantry Inc | Plainville, CT | $50,454 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc | Greenfield, MA | $46,556 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rotary Club of Meriden | Meriden, CT | $40,275 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Meriden-New Britain-Berlin Young Mens Christian Association Inc | Meriden, CT | $33,871 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Connecticut Forest and Park Association Incorporated | Rockfall, CT | $32,383 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Rotary International | Middletown, CT | $31,854 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Old Saybrook Land Trust Inc | Old Saybrook, CT | $28,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Area Congregations Together Inc | Shelton, CT | $27,652 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Pathfinders Inc | Killingworth, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Middletown High School Blue Dragon Booster Club Inc | Middletown, CT | $22,278 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Essex Rotary Scholarship Foundation | Essex, CT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Overcomer Training Center Inc | Middletown, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cystic Fibrosis Foundation | Middletown, CT | $19,763 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Kingswood Oxford School Inc | West Hartford, CT | $19,763 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| St Vincent Depaul of the Valley Inc | Derby, CT | $17,809 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ecumenical Food Bank Inc | Naugatuck, CT | $17,647 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Impact Inc | Middletown, CT | $16,783 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Marlborough Food Bank Inc | Marlborough, CT | $16,080 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| North Haven Congregational Church | North Haven, CT | $16,049 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Incarnation Center Incorporated | Deep River, CT | $15,600 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Clean Water Fund | Washington, DC | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Deep River Land Trust Inc | Deep River, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Friends of Machimoodus State Parks | Hadlyme, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| International Foundation for CDKL5 Research | Wadsworth, OH | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Katal Center for Equity Health and Justice Inc | Brooklyn, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| West Hartford Social Services | West Hartford, CT | $15,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Everyone Outside | Durham, CT | $14,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Chester Land Trust | Chester, CT | $14,083 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Westbrook High School | Westbrook, CT | $13,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Ukrainian Patriot Inc | Columbia, SC | $12,700 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Haven Congregational Church | North Haven, CT | $12,037 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Searchlight Educational Media Inc | Berkeley, CA | $11,578 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| University of Connecticut Foundation Incorporated | Storrs, CT | $10,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Rmhc Ctma | New Haven, CT | $10,250 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Town of Groton Human Social Servi | Groton, CT | $10,195 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Camp Bethel Assn Inc | Haddam, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Foundation for Dental Outreach Inc | Southington, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Independent Day School Incorporated | Middlefield, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Police Activity League of Middletown Inc | Middletown, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| President and Fellows of Harvard College | Cambridge, MA | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Unashamed LLC | Middletown, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Valley Shore YMCA | Westbrook, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| St Vincent De Paul of the Valley | East Haven, CT | $9,843 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| West Hartford Social Services | West Hartford, CT | $9,779 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Ivoryton Playhouse Foundation Inc | Ivoryton, CT | $8,350 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Valley Regional High School | Deep River, CT | $8,160 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| East Haddam Land Trust Inc | East Haddam, CT | $8,086 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Connecticut Audubon Society Incorporated | Fairfield, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc | Hartford, CT | $6,717 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ukrainians of Colorado | Lakewood, CO | $6,410 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| The United Way of Greater Waterbury Inc | Waterbury, CT | $6,250 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
28 of 68 (41%) 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 each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 44 of 68 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 year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 10 | $215,063 | $7,383 |
| 2022 | 34 | $1,071,771 | $15,833 |
| 2023 | 41 | $1,154,953 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 40 | $1,225,110 | $15,540 |
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
86% 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
- 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.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,000 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
- 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 Community Foundation of'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.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 108 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: 49 Main Street, Middletown, CT, 06457.
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