· Private foundation
Christian J & Eva W Trefz Family Foundation Inc
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.
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k23 grants · $45k
- $10k–50k3 grants · $42k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HELPING MINISTRIES | $18,000 |
| GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY | $14,000 |
| THE WESTPORT LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| Aspetuck Land Trust | $6,000 |
| HAPPY WHEELS INC | $5,000 |
| The Church by the Sea | $5,000 |
| RED CROSS OF CONNECTICUT | $5,000 |
| SIMPLY SMILES | $5,000 |
| TUNNELS TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
| ZOE EMPOWERS | $3,000 |
| THE NEW HAVEN CHORALE | $2,500 |
| YOUNG AMERICAS FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| BEST FRIENDS OF ANIMALS | $1,000 |
| HOMES WITH HOPE | $1,000 |
| PRAGER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | $1,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 68% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +35% since the first grant, against +17% for those funded once.
54 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 33 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNorwalk Hospital Foundation3× · 2017–2019 · $1.9M · revenue +6%
AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC7× · 2018–2024 · $447k · revenue +77%- ALASPETUCK LAND TRUST7× · 2017–2025 · $70k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- NHNORWALK HOSPITAL GLOBAL HEALTHone grant, 2021 · $126k
- WCWESTPORT CENTER FOR SENIOR ACTIVITIESone grant, 2019 · $30k
- ZZOEone grant, 2018 · $10k
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.
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To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
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.
Commonwealth care alliance, inc.'s mission is to improve the health and well-being of people with significant needs by innovating, coordinating and providing the highest quality, individualized care.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
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Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Help improve policy and decision making through research and analysis.
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To support salem health, salem health west valley and related organizations.
How this is measured
64 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. 64 of the 118 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 Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds GULF COAST HUMANE SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds Zoe Empowers ↗
- Who funds ARIZONA AGRIBUSINESS & EQUINE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds Young America's Foundation ↗
- Who funds SIMPLY SMILES INC ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds NEW HAVEN CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE OF NEW YORK INC ↗
- Who funds UKRAINE AID INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds SPECIAL OLYMPICS INC ↗
- Who funds HAPPY WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds PALLIATIVE CARE AND EDUCATION FOR RURAL ↗
- Who funds WARWICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hospice of the Valley ↗
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 James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Synchrony Foundation · Smilow Foundation · The Gendell Family Foundation Inc · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Newman's Own Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Christian J & Eva W Trefz Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Christian J & Eva W Trefz Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Kennedy Collective Inc: 79% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc: 32% of income from government
- Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust: 28% of income from government
- Save Ellis Island Inc: 10% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- Florida Sheriffs Association Inc: 4% of income from government
- New Haven Chorale Inc: 3% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc: 2% of income from government
- Gordon College: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
- Food for the Poor Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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