· Private foundation
Chuza Foundation
Its FY2024 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, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k14 grants · $12k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $152k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOROTON PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH | $151,500 |
| WORLD VISION | $25,360 |
| CT FOOD BANK | $25,000 |
| KIDS IN CRISIS INC | $25,000 |
| EL CENTRO HISPANO INC | $20,000 |
| CHRISTIAN MISSION GARZA | $15,000 |
| BLUE MOUNTAIN COLLEGE ALUMNI | $5,000 |
| DARIEN COMMUNITY FUND | $2,500 |
| PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY | $1,000 |
| AFLIK | $1,000 |
| AMHERST ALUMNI FUND | $500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $500 |
| DARIEN LIBRARY | $300 |
| WSHU (SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY) | $300 |
| NOROTON HEIGHTS FIRE DEPT | $300 |
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 (FY20–24, $112k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 9% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +36% since the first grant, against +20% for those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- KIKIDS IN CRISIS INC5× · 2020–2024 · $110k · revenue +67%
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC4× · 2021–2024 · $100k · revenue +64%
- IIINSPIRICA INC4× · 2020–2023 · $70k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- PTPRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARYone grant, 2020 · $5k
Save The Children Federation Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -13%- PPTSone grant, 2021 · $1k
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 community action agency of western connecticut is a private non-profit corporation serving western connecticut. its primary purpose is to operate a multi-purpose organization to combat poverty and promote self sufficiency among low…
The darien foundation's mission is to provide grant funding for technology and capital projects that create opportunity for darien's youth, support town safety and security services, enhance the overall quality of life in darien, and…
Open space preservation in darien, connecticut
The mission of Dana-Farber Cancer Care Network (DFCCN) is to promote and support, directly or indirectly, the interests and purposes of Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI).
In cooperation with the Roman Catholic Prelature of Opus Dei, Darien Study Center fosters the search for holiness in the middle of the world, by means of ordinary work and all the other circumstances of daily life. See www.opusdei.org.
Fca is a community-based behavioral health center that offers innovation, responsive and traditional mental health care and services for children, adolescents, adults and their families.
Danbury animal welfare society , inc.(daws) is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the lives of animals in our community and beyond. we promote responsible pet guardianship and the humane treatment of animals, and work toward…
to provide ambulance services
Housing and programs for persons with intellectual disabilities.
Damian is a system of 14 federally qualified health centers with a mission to provide quality, comprehensive health care to medically underserved individuals, regardless of their ability to pay. our core services are designed to improve…
Volunteer fire department whose purpose is to fight fires and promote fire safety.
Private, independent university providing higher education to students. The mission of Daemen University is to prepare creative, ethically-minded leaders for a diverse and interconnected world by integrating the intellectual strengths…
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 49 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 KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds EL CENTRO HISPANO INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN MISSION TO GAZA ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds Darien Community Association Inc ↗
- Who funds DARIEN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds A BETTER CHANCE IN DARIEN INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of Forman Christian College Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF AMBLER FARM INC ↗
- Who funds The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated ↗
- Who funds AT HOME IN DARIENINC ↗
- Who funds HORIZONS INC ↗
- Who funds DARIEN POLICE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds ALLIANCE MEDICAL 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: The Goodnow Fund · Schaefer-Phillips Foundation Inc · 522 Foundation Inc · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · Mbia Foundation · The Darien Foundation Inc · The Stuart L Higley Foundation Inc · Pieter and Yvette Eenkema Van Dijk Foundation · The Rogers Family Foundation · The Roxe Foundation · The Edward E Hood Jr Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Chuza Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Chuza Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
- Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
- Horizons Inc: 39% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Friends of Ambler Farm Inc: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Noroton Heights Fire Department Incorporated: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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