2024 Responsive Grant Awards

New Haven, Conn. (July 25, 2024) – The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven has awarded $4,626,285 in grants to a large and diverse group of nonprofit organizations serving Greater New Haven through its annual responsive grants program. 

Grants are being given to 142 nonprofits, a record total for The Community Foundation, from one of the largest applicant pools in The Foundation’s history. Of the total awards, 70 are for one year and 72 are for two or three years, and the average amount for the first year is $22,000. All grant awards are for general operating support. 

Nonprofits face several challenges that are contributing to the increased demand including the end of COVID-19 era federal funds from the American Rescue Plan Act. Rising costs associated with recent inflation are also affecting nonprofits, and changes in Medicaid eligibility and funding is creating budget gaps among healthcare providers. 

“We had many difficult decisions to make with the responsive grant docket this year,” said The Community Foundation President and CEO Will Ginsberg. “In response to the unprecedented demand for funding, The Foundation took a broad approach to our grantmaking to fund as many nonprofits as possible. We understand our critical role in providing general operating grants that are so important to the organizations delivering the effective and impactful programs and services that contribute so much to our region.”

Also factoring into the increased number of grant applications is The Foundation’s work to broaden its reach to new and smaller organizations, according to Christina Ciociola, senior vice president for planning and community strategies. 

“The purpose of the responsive grant process has always been to cast a wide net across the diverse set of needs and opportunities in the region,” Ciociola said. “The Foundation’s current strategic plan prioritizes broadening our reach and this grant docket demonstrates our success in reaching more organizations and making our resources more accessible.”

Thirty-one of the grants are to organizations receiving responsive awards for the first time or with operating budgets of under $200,000. Nearly one third (30%) of the grants are to Black- or Brown-led nonprofits and 80% are to organizations serving a majority Black and Brown population. 

2024 Responsive Grant Awards 

One-year grant recipients

4-CT - $20,000

50CAN, Inc. d/b/a ConnCAN - $9,750

Agency on Aging of South Central CT - $22,750

All Our Kin - $29,250

Amity Teen Center Inc - $8,000

American Red Cross Connecticut Chapter - $16,250

Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Institute, Inc. d/b/a Homes for the Brave - $8,450

Arts for Learning Connecticut - $16,250

Best Video Film & Cultural Center - $16,250

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut, Inc. - $16,250

Boys & Girls Village - $22,750

Bridges Healthcare, Inc. - $29,250

cARTie - $9,750

Central Connecticut Coast YMCA - $19,500

Children in Placement - CT, Inc. - $19,500

Children's Law Center, Inc. - $9,750

City Angels Baseball Academy - $9,750

CitySeed Inc. - $29,250

CLICC Inc. - $19,500

Columbus House, Inc. - $29,250

Concepts for Adaptive Learning - $19,500

Connecticut Association for the Performing Arts (CAPA) - $22,750

Connecticut Audubon Society - $16,250

Connecticut Foodshare - $16,250

Dwight Hall at Yale - $10,000

Eli Whitney Museum & Workshop - $13,000

Elm City Internationals - $13,000

Ely Center of Contemporary Art - $15,000

Gaylord Hospital, Inc. - $32,500

Governor's Partnership to Protect CT's Workforce d/b/a The Governor's Prevention Partnership - $19,500

Guilford Art Center - $22,750

Guilford Performing Arts Festival Company - $10,000

Habitat for Humanity of Greater New Haven - $16,250

Haven's Harvest - $26,000

Helping Our People to Excel, Incorporated - $19,500

Higher Heights Youth Empowerment Programs, Inc. - $19,500

Jewish Family Service of Greater New Haven - $16,250

Latinas & Power Inc. - $16,250

Lawyers for Children America - $13,000

Leadership, Education and Athletics in Partnership, Inc. - $29,250

Legacy Theatre - $12,300

Liberty Community Services, Inc. - $26,000

Literacy Volunteers of Greater New Haven - $22,750

Local Initiatives Support Corporation - $25,000

Madison Lyric Stage - $6,500

Massaro Community Farm - $13,000

New Haven Chorale - $20,000

New Haven Reads - $29,250

New Haven Symphony Orchestra - $13,000

New HYTEs Inc - $9,750

NXTHVN Inc - $25,000

Operation Fuel - $22,750

Pequeñas Ligas Hispanas de New Haven, Inc. - $11,700

Pro Bono Partnership - $13,000

Prosperity House Inc - $13,000

Rape Crisis Center of Milford, Inc. - $12,350

Room 17 Math, Inc. - $17,900

SARAH Inc. - $10,400

Save the Sound - $22,750

Soul Friends Inc - $13,000

St. Lawrence School - $10,400

Statewide Legal Services of Connecticut, Inc. - $13,000

Tommy Fund for Childhood Cancer - $13,000

United Way of Greater New Haven - $32,500

Urban Community Alliance - $26,000

Women and Family Life Center - $19,500

Women's Business Development Council - $19,500

Yale-China Association - $9,100

Youth Continuum, Inc. - $25,000

Youth Entrepreneurs Inc - $9,750

Two-year grant recipients

Apostle Immigrant Services, Corp. - $40,000

Boys and Girls Clubs of Greater New Haven - $40,000

Career Resources, Inc. - $42,000

Center for Children's Advocacy - $25,000

Clelian Adult Day Center (Apostles of the Sacred Heart Clelian Center Inc) - $25,000

CMWP Foundation, Inc. - $20,000

Connecticut Voices for Children - $45,000

Connecticut Women’s Consortium - $35,000

EIR Urban Youth Boxing, Inc - $25,000

Elm City LITFest KulturallyLIT - $30,000

Havenly, Inc. - $40,000

Huneebee Project - $30,000

Loaves & Fishes - $40,000

'r kids Inc. - $40,000

Young Men's Institute Library - $25,000

Three-year grant recipients

A Better Way Foundation - $50,000

Adam Wysota Foundation dba Adam's House - $18,000

Animal Haven - $52,500

Arts Council of Greater New Haven - $35,000

Beulah Heights First Pentecostal Church (Social Integration Program) - $40,000

BHcare - $40,000

Boundless Literacy Inc. - $40,000

Boys & Girls Club of Milford - $55,000

Canal Dock Boathouse, Inc. - $35,000

Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Hartford - $40,000

Community Action Agency of New Haven, Inc. - $67,000

Community Nursery School - $50,000

Community Soup Kitchen - $55,000

Congregations Organized for a New Connecticut (CONECT) - $50,000

Connecticut Community Bicycle Workshop - $26,000

Connecticut Players Foundation, Inc. d/b/a Long Wharf Theatre - $95,000

Connecticut Violence Intervention Program, INC. - $55,000

Continuum of Care, Inc. - $55,000

Cornell Scott-Hill Health Corporation - $60,000

Diaper Bank of Connecticut - $50,000

Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen, Inc. - $55,000

Elm Shakespeare Company - $40,000

Fellowship Place Inc. - $55,000

Freedom Reads - $35,000

Gather New Haven - $60,000

Greater New Haven Cat Project, Inc. - $53,900

Greater New Haven Chamber of Commerce - $75,000

Guilford Community Television, Inc. - $45,000

Health Equity Solutions - $41,750

Horizons at Foote - $54,500

Inspired Communities, Inc. - $55,000

Interfaith Volunteer Care Givers of Greater New Haven - $50,000

International Festival of Arts & Ideas - $50,000

IRIS - Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services - $65,000

Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven - $40,000

Literacy Volunteers of Southern CT - $35,000

Mary Wade - $65,000

Masters Manna - $45,000

Music Haven - $55,000

Neighborhood Housing Services of New Haven - $55,000

Neighborhood Music School - $55,000

New Haven Legal Assistance Association Inc. - $45,000

New Haven Pride Center - $60,000

New Reach - $60,000

Nutrition Security Solutions, Inc. - $25,000

Open Communities Alliance - $40,000

Planned Parenthood of Southern New England - $70,000

Project Access of New Haven - $85,000

Read to Grow, Inc. - $45,000

Saint Martin de Porres Academy - $40,000

Solar Youth, Inc. - $50,000

The Storehouse Project - $57,500

The Whitney Players Theater Company - $42,000

Urban Resources Initiative - $40,000

West Haven Child Development Center - $60,000

WHEAT, Inc. - $61,035

Winning Ways Inc - $45,000

About The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven’s mission is to inspire, support, inform, listen to and collaborate with the people and organizations of Greater New Haven to build an ever more connected, inclusive, equitable and philanthropic community.  Established in 1928, The Foundation is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the U.S. Generations of donors past and present have built the Foundation’s permanent charitable endowment, which serves 20 towns in Greater New Haven. The Foundation operates under a strategic plan to expand opportunity and equity throughout our region. For more information about The Foundation, visit www.cfgnh.org or follow @cfgnh on facebook and twitter.