Connecticut · Private foundation
Cunniffe Family 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.
- $482k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $960k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 22% of the organizations Cunniffe Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $125k 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 | 6 | $454k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $1.7M | 22% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $4.8M | 0% |
| FY2021 | 5 | $3.5M | 60% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $4.4M | 71% |
| FY2019 | 5 | $605k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 8 | $4.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fordham University | $11,607,910 | 7 | 0% |
| Ringling College of Art and Design Inc | $2,200,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Smithsonian Institution | $1,568,531 | 3 | 0% |
| Bruce Museum Inc | $1,420,000 | 3 | 9% |
| Trustees of the Convent of the Sacred Heart Inc | $281,556 | 4 | n/a |
| Cancer Research Institute Inc | $110,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Yellow Farmhouse Education Center Inc | $45,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | $13,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Greenwich Historical Society Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Convent of the Sacred Heart | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through this funder rather than between each other.
Open a dossier: Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Cunniffe Family Foundation
- How much does Cunniffe Family Foundation give?
- Cunniffe Family Foundation reported 8 grants totaling $482,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Cunniffe Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (71%), Arts & Culture (12%), Science & Tech (8%).
- Who are Cunniffe Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Fordham University ($12M), Ringling College of Art and Design Inc ($2.2M), Smithsonian Institution ($1.6M).
- Does Cunniffe Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cunniffe Family 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 Cunniffe Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Cunniffe Family Foundation based?
- Cunniffe Family Foundation is based in CT.
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