Connecticut · Private foundation
Calf Island 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.
- $10k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 1
- Grants FY2025
- 6
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 25
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $172k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Calf Island Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 1 | $10k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 6 | $41k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $12k | 50% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $23k | 63% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $20k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 12 | $87k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $111k | 80% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $16k | 100% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greenwich Hospital | $50,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Academy for Teachers Inc | $39,900 | 4 | 1% |
| The Irish Georgian Society Inc | $35,101 | 3 | 3% |
| New York Botanical Garden | $20,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Sail to Prevail | $13,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Natural Areas Conservancy Inc | $9,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Cancer Research Fund of the Damon Runyon-Walter Winchell Foundation | $8,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Scenic Hudson Inc | $6,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Greenwich Emergency Medical Service Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hyde Hall Inc | $5,500 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($54k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Calf Island Foundation supplied at peak.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: Jewish Communal Fund · The Chicago Community Trust · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Charina Foundation Inc Richard Menschel · The New York Community Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Calf Island Foundation
- How much does Calf Island Foundation give?
- Calf Island Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $10,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 25 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Calf Island Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (28%), Arts & Culture (23%), Education (21%).
- Who are Calf Island Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greenwich Hospital ($50k), The Academy for Teachers Inc ($40k), The Irish Georgian Society Inc ($35k).
- Does Calf Island Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Calf Island 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 Calf Island Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, The Chicago Community Trust, The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Calf Island Foundation based?
- Calf Island Foundation is based in CT.
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