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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 FY2025still arriving
99
Grants FY2025still arriving
19
States reached
$49k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
0196% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.

Education$255kInternational$186kEnvironment$175kHuman Services$163kArts & Culture$155kHealth$149kRecreation & Sports$73kFood & Nutrition$70kOther$0
02FY2025 · 99 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k94 grants · $112k
  • $10k–50k5 grants · $119k
$500
Median grant
19
States reached
$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GREENWAY INSTITUTE (GREENWAY COLLEGE)$49,000
RICHARD R GREEN HIGH SCHOOL PARENTS ASSOCIATION$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS FOUNDATION (IGPA)$20,000
VTDIGGER (VT JOURNALISM TRUST LTD)$20,000
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN$10,000
UNICEF$9,000
USA FOR UNHCR UN REFUGEE AGENCY$8,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$8,000
TREES NY INC$7,000
REGIONAL HOSPICE (DANBURY CT)$5,000
BRENNAN CENTER FOR JUSTICE AT NYU$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA$5,000
CHURCH WORLD SERVICE$5,000
AMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE$4,000
RVNA HEALTH$3,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 38% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%KAREN ANN QUINLAM MEMORIAL FOUNDATION: $50 → 6%RESOURCE: $5k → 10%RESOURCE: $5k → 10%RESOURCE: $2k → 10%RESOURCE: $2k → 10%RESOURCE: $2k → 10%RESOURCE: $2k → 10%LOAVES AND FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $100 → 9%LOAVES AND FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $100 → 9%LOAVES AND FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $100 → 9%LOAVES AND FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $100 → 9%LOAVES AND FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $100 → 9%LOAVES AND FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $100 → 9%LOAVES AND FISHES HOSPITALITY HOUSE: $100 → 9%SHE'S THE FIRST: $500 → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $3k → 17%INNOCENCE PROJECT: $1k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.5M · 191 repeat orgs$138k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

191 repeat relationships — 87 still active in FY2025, 104 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

191
44

Total granted

$1.5M
$57k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+16%

Still filing today

50%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $81k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHealthInternationalCivil RightsOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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

  • UV
    UPPER VALLEY HAVEN
    8× · 2017–2024 · $60k · revenue +107%
  • TF
    THE FAMILY PLACE INC
    8× · 2017–2024 · $50k · revenue +29%
  • PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC
    9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $10k · revenue +36%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS IGPA
    one grant, 2019 · $5k
  • UC
    UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
    one grant, 2022 · $5k

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

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

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3
Npr Foundation

The npr foundation ("foundation") is organized and operated exclusively for the benefit of its sole supported organization, national public radio, inc. ("npr inc."). the foundation supports npr inc. through various activities such as…

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4
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
5
Boston Architectural College

The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.

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6
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
7
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
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The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
9
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.

Education
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Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
11
Native Plant Trust Inc

The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.

Environment
12
American Association for the Advancement of Science

Advance science, engineering, and innovation throughout the world for the benefit of all. the world's largest multidisciplinary scientific society and a leading publisher of cutting-edge research through its science family of journals,…

Science & Tech

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The New York Public Library Astor Lenox and Tilden Foundations and the most unlike its peers is Kent Singers Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyYouth Sports ProgramsCommunity FoundationsDomestic Violence ServicesHealth Access Advocacy and …Senior Support ServicesFood Banks and PantriesChild Abuse Advocacy Servic…Public Library OperationsWomen & Girls Leadership De…Elementary Literacy TutoringVolunteer Fire & Ems Servic…Local Food System Organizat…Jewish Community Organizati…Local History MuseumsOrchestra and Ensemble Perf…Environmental Conservation …Pregnancy Support ServicesPolicy Research and AdvocacyFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%2%<5yr14%3%5–10yr19%12%10–20yr16%20%20–35yr13%28%35–55yr16%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%9%<5yr14%1%5–10yr19%8%10–20yr16%17%20–35yr13%32%35–55yr16%35%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 9% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.7% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.7%1/140
the rest of the field
13%
240,395/1,819,425

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

04the grantee network

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

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 134 of the 251 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
129/134
Grantees still filing
90/134
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $91,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientUPPER VALLEY HAVEN — $59,500 · OtherUPPER VALLEY HAVENPS 234 PTA — $54,750 · OtherTHE FAMILY PLACE INC — $49,700 · OtherGREENWAY INSTITUTE (GREENWAY COLLEGE) — $49,000 · OtherUSA FOR UNHCR UN REFUGEE AGENCY — $45,500 · OtherAMERICAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE — $42,000 · OtherGREENWAY INSTITUTE — $40,000 · Other+127 more — $674,140 · Other+127 moreInternational Rescue Committee INC — $37,000 · InternationalInternatio…CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC — $33,500 · InternationalCHURCH WOR…UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $28,000 · InternationalUNITED STA…WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $21,000 · InternationalWORLD CENT…THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC — $13,000 · InternationalTHE POPULA…MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,500 · International+3 more — $8,800 · International+3 moreUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $38,000 · EducationTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES — $15,000 · EducationCornell University — $11,400 · EducationUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION — $10,000 · EducationP S I S 276 PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 · EducationChris Borton Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc — $9,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $7,200 · EducationUniversity of Chicago — $5,700 · EducationUPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE — $5,000 · Education+7 more — $11,750 · EducationAmerican Museum of Natural History — $14,000 · Arts & CultureMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $11,950 · Arts & CultureLIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER — $9,800 · Arts & CultureMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $9,000 · Arts & CultureNew York Historical Society — $6,500 · Arts & CultureCHURCH STREET SCHOOL FOR MUSIC AND ART — $2,850 · Arts & CulturePBS FOUNDATION — $2,500 · Arts & Culture+13 more — $16,125 · Arts & CulturePLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $45,000 · HealthNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE — $5,700 · HealthYALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL — $2,000 · HealthPlanned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — $2,000 · Health+3 more — $2,900 · HealthNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $16,000 · EnvironmentNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC — $8,500 · EnvironmentNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $5,250 · EnvironmentBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $4,650 · EnvironmentENERGY ACTION NETWORK INC — $4,000 · EnvironmentUPPER VALLEY LAND TRUST INC — $3,750 · EnvironmentCONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC — $2,250 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR AN AGRICULTURAL ECONOMY INC — $2,000 · Environment+1 more — $1,400 · EnvironmentFRIENDS OF OAKHILL — $40,000 · Recreation & SportsGRASSROOT SOCCER INC — $2,250 · Recreation & SportsCITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC — $1,950 · Recreation & Sports+1 more — $1,500 · Recreation & Sports
Other$1,106,090International$148,800Education$123,050Arts & Culture$72,725Health$57,600Environment$47,800Recreation & Sports$45,700

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUPPER VALLEY HAVEN — $59,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHE FAMILY PLACE INC — $49,700 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC — $45,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF OAKHILL — $40,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetUniversity of Illinois Foundation — $38,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC — $37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC — $33,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF — $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC — $22,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetVERMONT FOODBANK — $19,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetRESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC — $18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN — $16,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetHUDSON VALLEY POLONAISE SOCIETY INC — $15,750 over 9y, 100% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES — $15,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Museum of Natural History — $14,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetSHARE OUR STRENGTH — $13,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE POPULATION COUNCIL INC — $13,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRVNAHEALTH INC — $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMETROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART — $11,950 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCornell University — $11,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC — $11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SOUTH DAKOTA FOUNDATION — $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetP S I S 276 PARENT-TEACHER ASSOCIATION INC — $10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetLIBERTY SCIENCE CENTER — $9,800 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetJAG PRODUCTIONS COMPANY — $9,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetMUSEUM OF JEWISH HERITAGE A LIVING MEMORIAL TO THE HOLOCAUST — $9,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetChris Borton Memorial Scholarship Fund Inc — $9,000 over 9y, 4.4% of budgetNATURAL AREAS CONSERVANCY INC — $8,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPOLICE ATHLETIC LEAGUE INC — $8,400 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMITTEE TO PROTECT JOURNALISTS INC — $8,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC — $7,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $7,200 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN UNIVERSITY — $7,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION FOUNDATION INC — $7,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVermont Public Radio — $6,550 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Historical Society — $6,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC — $6,100 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION & CHOICES — $6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE — $6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ACADEMY OF SOCIAL INSURANCE — $5,700 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Chicago — $5,700 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK RESTORATION PROJECT — $5,250 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetLUTHERAN IMMIGRATION & REFUGEE SERVICE INC DBA GLOBAL REFUGE — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUPPER VALLEY TRAILS ALLIANCE — $5,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetJournalism Funding Partners — $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROOKLYN BOTANIC GARDEN CORPORATION — $4,650 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OPPORTUNITY FUND — $4,500 over 3y, 11% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

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

  • Who funds UPPER VALLEY HAVEN ↗
  • Who funds THE FAMILY PLACE INC ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION OF AMERICA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF OAKHILL ↗
  • Who funds University of Illinois Foundation ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds CHURCH WORLD SERVICE INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED STATES FUND FOR UNICEF ↗
  • Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
  • Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
  • Who funds VERMONT FOODBANK ↗
  • Who funds RESOURCE A NONPROFIT COMMUNITY ENTERPRISE INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗
  • Who funds HUDSON VALLEY POLONAISE SOCIETY INC ↗
  • Who funds THE CENTER FOR CARTOON STUDIES ↗
  • Who funds American Museum of Natural History ↗
  • Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
  • Who funds THE POPULATION COUNCIL INC ↗
  • Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
  • Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Cornell University ↗
  • Who funds THE INNOCENCE PROJECT INC ↗

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…The Connecticut Commu…The Vermont Community…Connecticut Humanitie…The Ellen Knowles Har…New Hampshire Charita…Union Savings Bank Fo…The New York Communit…The Ford FoundationGlobal ImpactFlora R and Isidor M …The Kestrel Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT19.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

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no gov · 150%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Lutheran Immigration & Refugee Service Inc Dba Global Refuge — 100% of income from government
  • The Family Place Inc — 38% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Haven — 38% of income from government
  • The Petey Greene Program Inc — 29% of income from government
  • Connecticut Science Center Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Liberty Science Center — 14% of income from government
  • Kent Singers Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Vermont Foodbank — 13% of income from government
  • Center for an Agricultural Economy Inc — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art — 5% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Upper Valley Trails Alliance — 3% of income from government
  • Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Resource a Nonprofit Community Enterprise Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Rvnahealth Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Addison County Home Health Hospice Inc — 1% of income from government
  • Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
  • Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
  • The Danbury Hospital — 1% of income from government
  • Yale New Haven Hospital — 0% of income from government
  • Energy Action Network Inc — 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
15get no government money at all
23report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Bridgewood Fieldwater Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 251 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your 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. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home
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