2024 Responsive Grant Awards
The Community Foundation delivers $4.63 million to local nonprofits in a year of high demand for funding
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.
