Connecticut · Private foundation
Bonnell Cove Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $126k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 30
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $4,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $6,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 12 to 20
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.7M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Bonnell Cove Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 30 | $126k | 60% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $107k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $97k | 58% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $89k | 53% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $66k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $70k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $80k | 78% |
| FY2018 | 13 | $65k | 85% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Billion Oyster Project Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Center for Coastal Studies Inc | $25,373 | 4 | 0% |
| Call of the Sea | $24,531 | 4 | 1% |
| The Hurricane Island Foundation | $24,230 | 7 | 0% |
| The Coral Reef Alliance | $23,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Friends of Casco Bay | $22,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Sea Education Association Inc | $19,650 | 4 | 0% |
| The Gloucester Adventureinc | $18,204 | 2 | 1% |
| Save the Bay Inc | $17,828 | 6 | 0% |
| Sound Experience | $16,000 | 2 | 1% |
Show all 67 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 29 recipients with no EIN on record ($193k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bonnell Cove Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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.
Open a dossier: Patagoniaorg · Davis Conservation Foundation · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Orange County Community Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · Lucky Seven Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · The Norcliffe Foundation · Seattle Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bonnell Cove Foundation
- How much does Bonnell Cove Foundation give?
- Bonnell Cove Foundation reported 30 grants totaling $126,474 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 20 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bonnell Cove Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (49%), Recreation & Sports (15%), Arts & Culture (13%).
- Who are Bonnell Cove Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Billion Oyster Project Inc ($30k), Center for Coastal Studies Inc ($25k), Call of the Sea ($25k).
- Does Bonnell Cove Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bonnell Cove Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bonnell Cove Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Patagoniaorg, Davis Conservation Foundation, Maine Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bonnell Cove Foundation based?
- Bonnell Cove Foundation is based in CT.
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