· Private foundation
Estate of Benjamin B Lewis
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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k15 grants · $63k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $52k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC | $20,000 |
| YMCA - CAMP HI-ROCK | $12,000 |
| SUMMERFIELD UNITED METHODIST CHURCH | $10,100 |
| BRIDGEPORT CITADEL CORP SALVATION A | $10,000 |
| JAMES J CURIALE SCHOOL | $9,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $8,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $6,000 |
| BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER | $6,000 |
| CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE | $5,100 |
| BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION | $5,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND | $5,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIET | $4,000 |
| LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES (FSW | $4,000 |
| WAKEMAN BOYS & GIRLS CLUB | $4,000 |
| HARTFORD HEALTH CARE AT HOME (VNS) | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 100% of Estate of Benjamin B Lewis’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
24 repeat relationships: 19 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NBNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC8× · 2018–2025 · $129k · revenue ×12
- BCBURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $56k · revenue +38%
- BHBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $53k · revenue +43%
Funded once
- NFNORMA F PFRIEM URBAN OUTREACH INITIone grant, 2017 · $15k
- HNHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $5k · revenue +83%
- BCBRIDGEPORT CHILD ADVOCACY COALITIONone grant, 2017 · $4k
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.
Provide religious,educational,and community services for the muslim community in the greater bridgeport area in connecticut. particpate in interfaith and all other community activties in the greater bridgeport area.
I care outreach, inc. was founded in 2004 to identify and address the urgent needs of low-income, disadvantaged and at risk individuals and families within the brigeport, connecticut area and surrounding local communities. the…
Bridgeport Generation Now Votes is on a mission to increase voter turnout in Bridgeport elections. Key to that work is educating the public about political candidates public officials and what their public service record actually is not…
Founded in 1986, building neighborhoods together's (bnt) mission is to end housing insecurity, income inequality, and homelessness by creating safe, affordable housing, and providing comprehensive housing and financial counseling services…
The organization provides job training, placement, and counseling for dislocated and economically disadvantaged individuals in the bridgeport, norwalk, stamford and valley labor market areas.
Bridge over troubled waters provides effective and innovative services to homeless, at-risk, and runaway youth, helps youth avoid a lifetime of dependency on social services, guides youth towards self-sufficiency, and enables youth to…
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 brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
To increase opportunities for the people of the bridgeport region by acting to create an environment for business expansion, retention and recruitment that will result in jobs and tax base growth.
To assist low-income families in disadvantaged neighborhoods achieve self-sufficiency and financial stability through jobs and the expansion of business opportunities in the growing green economy.
How this is measured
14 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. 14 of the 30 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 NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CORP ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS INC ↗
- Who funds HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Tauck Family Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Paloian Family Foundation Inc · The Demattia Charitable Foundation Inc · Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trustee
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Estate of Benjamin B Lewis funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Estate of Benjamin B Lewis. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Family Justice Inc: 49% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc: 32% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc: 27% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc: 19% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
- Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp: 11% of income from government
- Bridgeport Hospital: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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