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Bessie C Durfee Estate Trust at a glance

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Bessie C Durfee Estate Trust

Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$15k
Granted FY2025still arriving
6
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$7k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.

Religion$35kHuman Services$17kHealth$10kFood & Nutrition$4kEducation$1kHousing & Shelter$1kRecreation & Sports$500
02FY2025 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

$1,500
Median grant
1
States reached
$292k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Rock$6,866
Individual grant recipient$3,000
Cornerstone Foundation$1,500
Individual grant recipient$1,225
Individual grant recipient$1,175
Individual grant recipient$1,125
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.

How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$48k · 3 repeat orgs$20k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
8

Total granted

$48k
$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+39%

Still filing today

33%
13%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • UC
    UNION CONG CHURCH DURFEE FD COMM
    4× · 2020–2023 · $35k
  • TR
    The Rock
    2× · 2024–2025 · $11k
  • CF
    CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $3k · revenue 0%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $7k
  • RF
    Racing for Jesus Ministries
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2024 · $2k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field
04the grantee network

2 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 2 of the 15 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
2/2
Grantees still filing
1/2
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

UNION CONG CHURCH DURFEE FD COMM: $35,099 · OtherUNION CONG CHURCH DURFEE FD COMMThe Rock: $10,866 · OtherThe RockIndividual grant recipient: $7,152 · OtherIndividual grant recipientIndividual grant recipient: $3,000 · OtherCORNERSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 · Other+10 more: $10,032 · Other+10 more
Other$68,649

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCORNERSTONE FOUNDATION INC: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds CORNERSTONE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS CONNECTICUT INC ↗

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Bessie C Durfee Estate Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bessie C Durfee Estate Trust. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%funder's share of their income ↑0%13%25%38%50%share of the org’s income from government →median 42%
  • Special Olympics Connecticut Inc: 42% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–50%
typical government reliance, FY20–24
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

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 15 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 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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