Skip to content

Connecticut · Private foundation

Bassler Family Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$70k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
13
Grants FY2024
14
Organizations funded FY2023
36%
First-time grantees FY2023
Read the full brief
Median grant, FY2024
$1,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$34,600
Organizations funded a year
9 to 14
FY2018 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$566k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 36% of the organizations Bassler Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’21’22’23
PhilanthropyEducationHealthArts & CultureCrime & LegalRecreation & SportsOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving13$70k38%
FY202314$70k36%
FY202212$67k42%
FY202113$70k38%
FY201914$75k50%
FY20189$71kn/a
97% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2024.

Religion$199kHealth$179kPhilanthropy$20kEducation$5kArts & Culture$5kFood & Nutrition$4kHuman Services$4kCrime & Legal$3kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

AK
NY
MA
OH
CT
CA
KY
MD
AZ
DC
GA

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 25 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($205k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bassler Family Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetLiberation Programs Inc: $82,300 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCrohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc: $67,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Community Fund of Darien: $15,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNextgen Face Inc: $15,000 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Federation of America Inc: $10,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAvon Theatre Film Center Inc: $4,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetConnecticut Foodshare Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEndometriosis Foundation of America Inc: $3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNational Underground Railroad Freedom Center Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe CIRI Foundation: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDarien Library Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPerson to Person Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBrady Center to Prevent Gun Violence: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Trustees of the Smith College: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConnecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDarien Book Aid Plan Inc: $500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorwalkstamford Grassroots Tennis & Education Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Child Center of Ny Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDarien EMS Post 53 Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAt Home in Darieninc: $300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBuilding One Community Corp: $200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Scholarship Fund of Concord and Carlisle: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDarien Police Association Inc: $50 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

Tap a dot to name the grantee.

How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 23.

Nonprofits that may fit its grantmaking

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT25.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Goodnow Fund · 522 Foundation Inc · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · The Orenstein Family Foundation · Alexandra Foundation · The Jack and Tricia Ryan Family Foundation · The Darrell Harvey Family Foundation Inc · The Rogers Family Foundation · Grune Family Foundation Inc · The Sosnow Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Compare Bassler Family Foundation Inc with peer funders

About Bassler Family Foundation Inc

How much does Bassler Family Foundation Inc give?
Bassler Family Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $70,400 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 14 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
What does Bassler Family Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Religion (47%), Health (42%), Philanthropy (5%).
Who are Bassler Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Liberation Programs Inc ($82k), Crohn's & Colitis Foundation Inc ($68k), The Community Fund of Darien ($15k).
Does Bassler Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bassler Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
Which funders back the same organizations as Bassler Family Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Goodnow Fund, 522 Foundation Inc.
Where is Bassler Family Foundation Inc based?
Bassler Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 36 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Bassler Family’s filings →

More from the funding graph