Connecticut · Private foundation
Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation
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.
- $231k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 99
- Grants FY2025
- 115
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $49,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 115 to 152
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 19
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 98 | $230k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 115 | $191k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 124 | $219k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 131 | $201k | 5% |
| FY2021 | 152 | $172k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 140 | $150k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 137 | $154k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 133 | $147k | 10% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Upper Valley Haven | $59,500 | 8 | 0% |
| The Family Place Inc | $49,700 | 8 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| American Friends Service Committee | $42,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Friends of Oakhill | $40,000 | 2 | 20% |
| University of Illinois Foundation | $38,000 | 3 | 0% |
| International Rescue Committee INC | $37,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Church World Service Inc | $33,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Richard R Green High School Parent Association | $32,000 | 3 | n/a |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $28,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 135 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 111 recipients with no EIN on record ($694k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 128 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Ellen Knowles Harcourt Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · The Ford Foundation · Global Impact · Flora R and Isidor M Stettenheim Foundation Inc · The Kestrel Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation
- How much does Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation give?
- Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation reported 99 grants totaling $230,525 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 115 and 152 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (16%), International (12%), Environment (11%).
- Who are Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Upper Valley Haven ($60k), The Family Place Inc ($50k), Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc ($45k).
- Does Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation 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 Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Connecticut Community Foundation, The Vermont Community Foundation.
- Where is Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation based?
- Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation is based in CT.
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