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Branford Community Foundation
The mission of the bcf is to improve the wellbeing of the branford community by connecting people who care with causes that matter, now and for generations to come.
- $140k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $86k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $48,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $3.3M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 17% of the organizations Branford Community Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 6 | $86k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $49k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $36k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $56k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $260k | 70% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $40k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 5 | $52k | 80% |
| FY2017 | 4 | $84k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women & Family Life Center Inc | $110,500 | 5 | 7% |
| James Blackstone Memorial Library Assoc | $103,950 | 4 | 1% |
| Town of Branford | $46,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Feed Branford Kids Inc | $36,000 | 4 | 19% |
| Branford Public Schools | $31,100 | 1 | n/a |
| Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Branford Food Pantry | $24,200 | 3 | 5% |
| Volunteer Service Center Inc | $22,900 | 1 | 68% |
| Community Dining Room Inc | $21,133 | 2 | 2% |
| Branford Early Learning Center Inc | $20,000 | 3 | 1% |
Show all 24 grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Branford Community Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Guilford Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Seedlings Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Echlin Foundation · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Agency on Aging of South Central Connecticut · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · Town Fair Tire Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Branford Community Foundation
- How much does Branford Community Foundation give?
- Branford Community Foundation reported 6 itemized grants totaling $85,900, out of $139,807 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Branford Community Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Human Services (33%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Branford Community Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Women & Family Life Center Inc ($111k), James Blackstone Memorial Library Assoc ($104k), Town of Branford ($46k).
- Does Branford Community Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Branford Community Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Guilford Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Seedlings Foundation.
- Where is Branford Community Foundation based?
- Branford Community Foundation is based in CT.
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