· Private foundation
Cyrus W & Amy F Jones & Bessie D Phelps 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 $10k16 grants · $70k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $131k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY | $34,000 |
| TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION | $15,000 |
| GREATER CONNECTICUT YOUTH ORCHESTRA | $14,000 |
| THE KLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATION (KTA) | $12,000 |
| MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION | $12,000 |
| GOODWILL INDUSTRIES OF WESTERN CT | $12,000 |
| HOMES FOR THE BRAVE | $12,000 |
| OLIVET CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH | $10,000 |
| CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY | $10,000 |
| Samuel P Senior Memorial Park Inc | $8,000 |
| THE CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY | $8,000 |
| GIRL SCOUTS HOUSATONIC COUNCIL | $6,000 |
| FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC | $6,000 |
| WILDFILE IN CRISIS | $5,000 |
| THE BARNUM FESTIVAL LLC | $5,000 |
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, $71k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
37 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 1 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, 98% 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
Backed again, and grew
- GCGREATER CONNECTICUT YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +112%
- KMKLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC8× · 2018–2025 · $69k · revenue +126%
- ABAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT6× · 2020–2025 · $62k · revenue +35%
Funded once
- TCThe Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation Incone grant, 2022 · $3k · revenue +38%
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.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
To provide a compassionate community where loving care enables aged and indigent individuals from meriden and connecticut to live with dignity in a secure, homelike environment.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…
Whitney center's mission, excellence in senior living, is grounded in the principal that all elders, regardless of physical or cognitive limitation, have the right to engage in life and seek fulfillment. our ideals of self-determination,…
To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.
None
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
The mission of the center is as follows:(a) to operate, oversee, administer, manage and supervise the assets and activities of saint catherine center for special needs, inc. and, including but not limited to, the assets and activities of…
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
Retirement housing
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 39 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 GREATER CONNECTICUT YOUTH ORCHESTRAS INC ↗
- Who funds KLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
- Who funds MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EASTON SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds EASTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds FIDELCO GUIDE DOG FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds Downtown Cabaret Theatre of Bridgeport ↗
- Who funds BRIDGE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE KENNEDY COLLECTIVE INC ↗
- Who funds BRADYS SMILE ↗
- Who funds SQUARE ONE THEATRE COMPANY ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT AREA YOUTH MINISTRY INC ↗
- Who funds WILDLIFE IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds EMERGE INC ↗
- Who funds The Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation 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: Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Cyrus W & Amy F Jones & Bessie D Phelps Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Cyrus W & Amy F Jones & Bessie D Phelps Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Bridge House Inc: 88% of income from government
- The Kennedy Collective Inc: 79% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
- Emerge Inc: 30% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc: 3% of income from government
- Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestras Inc: 1% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated: 1% of income from government
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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