We are proud to be of service to 42 communities in New London, Windham and Tolland Counties, with a combined population of approximately 450,000 residents and encompassing 1,402 square miles.

These communities include Ashford, Bozrah, Brooklyn, Canterbury, Chaplin, Colchester, Columbia, Coventry, Eastford, East Lyme, Franklin, Griswold, Groton, Hampton, Killingly, Lebanon, Ledyard, Lisbon, Lyme, Mansfield, Montville, New London, North Stonington, Norwich, Old Lyme, Plainfield, Pomfret, Preston, Putnam, Salem, Scotland, Sprague, Stafford, Sterling, Stonington, Thompson, Union, Voluntown, Waterford, Willington, Windham and Woodstock.

We are the largest community foundation in the state – by geographic area served – covering nearly one-third of Connecticut.

• In 1982, when the concept of a community foundation was still quite new, a small group of visionary community leaders came together to establish a permanent endowment that would serve New London and 10 surrounding towns in perpetuity.
• The organization was incorporated in 1983 as the Pequot Foundation, with seed money contributed by the Shea, Palmer and Bodenwein Funds.
• In 1998, the foundation changed its name to the Community Foundation of Southeastern Connecticut.
• In 2009, the foundation merged with its philanthropic counterpart to the north, the Community Foundation of the Tri-County Area – creating the geographically largest community foundation in Connecticut.
• Shortly thereafter – in recognition that we now served nearly one-third of the entire state, we changed our name again to the Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut.