Connecticut · Private foundation
Early Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $120k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 42
- Grants FY2025
- 46
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 50
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 11
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Early Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 | 42 | $120k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 46 | $110k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 46 | $96k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 44 | $106k | 30% |
| FY2021 | 50 | $118k | 28% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $99k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Riprap Friends Inc | $87,954 | 6 | 100% |
| The Hotchkiss School | $58,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Trustees of Princeton University | $54,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Harvard Club of Southern Ct | $15,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Springs Food Pantry Inc | $13,250 | 6 | 1% |
| Hopkins School Incorporated | $12,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen Inc | $11,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Hampton Lifeguard Association Inc | $11,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Hudson River Park Trust | $11,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Columbus House Inc | $11,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 43 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 46 recipients with no EIN on record ($250k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Early Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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.
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How this is measured
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About Early Family Foundation Inc
- How much does Early Family Foundation Inc give?
- Early Family Foundation Inc reported 42 grants totaling $120,208 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 50 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Early Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (48%), Health (20%), Animals (7%).
- Who are Early Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Riprap Friends Inc ($88k), The Hotchkiss School ($58k), The Trustees of Princeton University ($55k).
- Does Early Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Early Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Early Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Newalliance Foundation Inc, The New York Community Trust.
- Where is Early Family Foundation Inc based?
- Early Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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