Foundation for Community Health Inc
Sharon, CT · EIN 20-0057897. Reported 83 grants totalling $3,304,785 to 44 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 Foundation for Community Health Inc, by its IRS classification it provides support services within health care (NTEE E19).
- How spread out its giving is. 44 distinct organizations, with 16% 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. 57% 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 $20,000. Half of what it reported fell between $11,970 and $50,730; the smallest was $6,100 and the largest $208,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Community Action Partnership for Dutchess County Inc | Poughkeepsie, NY | $514,570 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| The Housing Collective Inc | Bridgeport, CT | $445,700 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| North East Community Center Inc | Millerton, NY | $422,881 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Columbia County Community Healthcare Consortium Inc | Hudson, NY | $325,980 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ljmn Media Inc | Falls Village, CT | $208,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Vassar Health Connecticut Inc | Sharon, CT | $129,294 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Greenwoods Counseling Referrals Inc | Litchfield, CT | $113,825 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Maria Seymour Brooker Memorial Inc | Torrington, CT | $97,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Susan B Anthony Project Inc | Torrington, CT | $85,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Project Sage Inc | Laveville, CT | $66,610 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Hudson River Housing | Poughkeepsie, NY | $65,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Northwest Hills Council of Governments | Goshen, CT | $60,730 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Sun River Health Inc | Peekskill, NY | $60,620 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Prime Time House Inc | Torrington, CT | $57,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Community Foundations of the Hudson Valley | Poughkeepsie, NY | $55,000 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Wassaic Project Inc | Wassaic, NY | $52,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Good Causes Inc | Albany, NY | $45,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chore Service Inc | Salisbury, CT | $42,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Partners for Sustainable Healthy Communities Inc | Litchfield, CT | $40,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Nw Hills Council of Govts | Goshen, CT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Connecticut Association of School- Based Health Centers | Hartford, CT | $29,800 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc | Calabasas, CA | $28,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Connecticut Community Foundation Inc | Waterbury, CT | $26,875 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Mccall Foundation Inc | Torrington, CT | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Region 1 School District | Falls Village, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| St Thomas Episcopal Church Food of Life | Amenia, NY | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Columbia County Sanctuary Movement | Hudson, NY | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Cornwall Library Association | Cornwall, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Housatonic Youth Service Bureau Inc | Falls Village, CT | $17,300 | 2 | 2 | 2022 |
| Connecticut Coalition Against Domestic Violence | Middletown, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Connecticut Oral Health Initiative Inc | Hartford, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Sky High Farm Inc | Pine Plains, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Town of Amenia | New York, NY | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Falls Village Children S Theater Company | Falls Village, CT | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Town of Sharon | Sharon, CT | $12,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| United Church of Christ | Cornwall, CT | $11,970 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Center of Compassion Inc | Dover Plains, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| David M Hunt Library & School Ass Ociation | Falls Village, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Falls Village Housing Trust Inc | Falls Village, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| Northwest Connecticut Arts Council Inc | Torrington, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| North Canaan Congreg Church | Canaan, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Town of Kent | Kent Lakes, CT | $9,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Connecticut Council for Philanthropy | Hartford, CT | $6,830 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Kent Affordable Housing Inc | Kent, CT | $6,100 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
22 of 44 (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.
- The Housing Collective Inc
2025-2028 LC-CHO OPERATING SUPPORT - Community Action Partnership
GNRL OPE SUPT, Rx ASSIST. - Community Action Partnership for Dutchess County Inc
FCH PRESCRIPTION ASSISTANCE FUND - North East Community Center Inc
TRI-CORNER NUTRITION SECURITY COALTION - Sharon Hospital
PETER H. SMITH FUND, MEDICAL EDUCATION - Columbia County Com Healthcar
General ope supp & Perscr. Ass.
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 of 44 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 | 21 | $847,440 | $25,000 |
| 2022 | 24 | $842,455 | $17,400 |
| 2023 | 21 | $776,180 | $15,000 |
| 2024 | 17 | $838,710 | $22,475 |
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
50% 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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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 $20,000 -- 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 Foundation for Community Health Inc'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 17 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: 478 Cornwall Bridge Rd, Sharon, CT, 06069.
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