Connecticut · Private foundation
David and Eunice Bigelow 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.
- $858k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 67
- Grants FY2025
- 59
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $66,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 54 to 59
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $113k 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 | 58 | $849k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 59 | $1.0M | 7% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $859k | 2% |
| FY2022 | 55 | $885k | 2% |
| FY2021 | 57 | $1.3M | 4% |
| FY2020 | 54 | $413k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 58 | $637k | 7% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $644k | 7% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Foundation for Excellence in Bridgeport Public Schools Inc | $2,224,977 | 7 | 74% |
| Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc | $290,000 | 6 | 8% |
| Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc | $251,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Creative Youth Productions Inc | $245,000 | 8 | 38% |
| St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc | $215,000 | 9 | 5% |
| Access Educational Services Inc | $172,000 | 6 | 25% |
| The Center for Family Justice Inc | $164,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $143,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Sacred Heart University Incorporated | $135,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Fairfield University | $135,000 | 9 | 0% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.4M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 55 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc · Tauck Family Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
How this is measured
Compare David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation with peer funders
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About David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation
- How much does David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation give?
- David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation reported 67 grants totaling $857,957 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 54 and 59 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (47%), Health (11%), Youth Development (10%).
- Who are David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Foundation for Excellence in Bridgeport Public Schools Inc ($2.2M), Kids Empowered by Your Support Inc ($290k), Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc ($252k).
- Does David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does David and Eunice Bigelow 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 David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Peoples United Community Foundation, Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation.
- Where is David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation based?
- David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation is based in CT.
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