· Public charity
Bridgeport Ladies Charitable Society
Charitable grants to indigent persons in the greater bridgeport, connecticut area
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $82k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| OPERATION HOPE | $27,086 |
| THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE | $22,122 |
| HARTFORD HEALTHCAREST VINCENT'S CANCER CENTER | $18,310 |
| SMILOW YALE CANCER CENTER | $14,633 |
| UNITED CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF BRIDGEPORT | $7,800 |
| WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $6,525 |
| MERCY LEARNING CENTER | $6,000 |
| STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER | $5,000 |
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
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
6 repeat relationships: 5 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- OHOPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC9× · 2017–2025 · $134k · revenue +6%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC5× · 2019–2025 · $105k · revenue +66%
- HHHartford HealthCare Corporation3× · 2023–2025 · $49k · revenue -4%
Funded once
- SVSt Vincent's Medical Centerone grant, 2022 · $12k · revenue -99%
- FSFAIRFIELD SOCIAL SERVICESone grant, 2023 · $9k
- SCSOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INCone grant, 2022 · $8k · revenue +17%
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.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The not-for-profit mary wade home has a mission to provide the highest-quality compassionate care, senior living, and services that promote wellness for older adults in greater new haven. this is achieved through a unique senior care…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
To improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
The mission of Windham Community Memorial Hospital is to offer comprehensive services in an environment where innovation and teaching are integral to care; where we are proud to serve patients and one another; where meeting the challenge…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
Chatham place at mary wade (dba) is an 84 unit assisted living and memory care facility which provides high quality services which seek to maximize residents dignity and vitality.
Whitney center's mission, excellence in senior living, is grounded in the principal that all elders, regardless of physical or cognitive ability, have the right to engage in life and seek fulfillment. our ideals of self-determination,…
To improve the health and well-being of all people in the communities we serve.
The mission of the agency is to provide and safeguard quality home health care to all persons in need, especially the indigent and medically underserved population. The agency strongly believes that appropriate health care is a fundamental…
To improve the health and well-being of our community by providing high quality, coordinated health and support services, accessible to all.
The mission of Midstate Medical Center is to improve the health and healing of the people and communities we serve.
Hilltown community health center's mission is to provide high quality, accessible medical, dental, optometry and behavioral health care, and related services to people in the western massachusetts hilltowns and surrounding areas. we seek…
How this is measured
9 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. 9 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Hartford HealthCare Corporation ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent's Medical Center ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP ↗
- Who funds ADAM J LEWIS ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds STERLING HOUSE COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bridgeport Ladies Charitable Society funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bridgeport Ladies Charitable Society. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Family Justice Inc: 49% of income from government
- Southwestern Ct Agency On Aging Inc: 44% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp: 11% of income from government
- Sterling House Community Center Inc: 8% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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