How much did FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION grant in FY2025?

Education$30MHuman Services$18MPhilanthropy$12MCommunity Improvement$9.3MHealth$7.9MArts & Culture$7.7MHousing & Shelter$6.2MCrime & Legal$5.6MYouth Development$5.3MOther$51M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2019

peters valleycandlelightersnathaniel witherellfine craftvassardecorative artsfar

2020

relief covidcovid resiliencydisaster reliefwesleyanconferenceucapmusic industry

2021

covid reliefsienauscvisualcoursesringlingart design

2022

westchesterspecial educationloggedarts nycteen artsbiodiversityworking implement

2023

brandeisamistadrazomukrainesanappalachianlake street

2025

nprapijewish federationscorusbenedictinecranbrooksheetz

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2025 · 448 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2025

Under $10k44 grants · $312k
$10k–50k266 grants · $5.3M
$50k–250k122 grants · $12M
$250k+16 grants · $8.5M

$24,159

Median grant

States reached

$291M

Total assets

Largest grants

MOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING$2,000,000
HEART AND ARMOR FOUNDATION$1,000,000
OPTIMUS HEALTH CARE INC$663,500
AMERICAN FORESTS$620,000
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH$567,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF MARTIN COUNTY$500,000
NATIONAL URBAN LEAGUE$470,000
SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC$411,081
THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE IN BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS$342,000
CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YMCA$341,070
OPEN DOORS$309,125
UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT$262,884
THE HOUSING COLLECTIVE$250,169
NAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC$250,000
JOE BURROW FOUNDATION$250,000

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $16.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 11% — the area typically sits at 10%. 31% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge

repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$124M · 626 repeat orgs$30M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +32% for the ones you funded once.

626 repeat relationships — 310 still active in FY2025, 316 since wound down; 129 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

626

429

Total granted

$124M

$22M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%

+32%

Still filing today

91%

85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8.2M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

EducationHuman ServicesArts & CultureHealthPhilanthropyEnvironmentOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

DF
DENVER FOUNDATION
2× · 2018–2019 · $3.1M · revenue +74%
BO
BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY
7× · 2018–2025 · $2.5M · revenue +311%
HA
HEART AND ARMOR FOUNDATION
6× · 2019–2025 · $2.1M · revenue +20% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

NC
NATIONAL COUNCIL FOR COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT INCgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $3.1M · revenue +230%
SC
SEATTLE CHINATOWN INTERNATIONAL DISTRICT PRESERVATION AND DEVELOPMENT AUTHOgraduated
one grant, 2022 · $2.5M · revenue +641% · 68% of their budget
CC
CHOOSE CHICAGO FOUNDATIONgraduated
one grant, 2021 · $2.5M · revenue +15538% · 98% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

Connecticut Farmland Trust Inc

Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements

Food & Nutrition

Connecticut Aeronautical Historical

To present the story of aviation and the human genius that made it possible

Arts & Culture

Child Health and Development Institute

To ensure healthy outcomes for all children in connecticut by advancing effective policies, stronger systems, and innovative practices.

Human Services

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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Dartmouth-Hitchcock Clinic

Advancing health through research, education, clinical practice, and community partnerships; providing each person the best care in the right place, at the right time, every time.

Health

The Baruch College Fund

The fund engages in generating, encouraging & promoting the educational welfare of the students of the bernard m. baruch college of the city university of new york.

Education

Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunites for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement

The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture

Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

Connecticut College

Description of organization mission connecticut college values academic excellence, diversity, equality, shared governance, education of the entire person, adherence to common ethical and moral standards, community service and global…

Education

New York Foundation for the Arts Inc

To empower artists at critical stages in their creative lives

Arts & Culture

Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Colgate University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 33 years old; the field is 21. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 9% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%13/1,177

the rest of the field

1,859/21,268

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

1061 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2026.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

305

Early backer (in before they grew)

1030/1061

Grantees still filing

800/1061

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Education$30,369,448Other$67,996,787Human Services$18,400,841Philanthropy$12,145,761Community Improvement$9,294,638Health$7,946,788Arts & Culture$7,721,691

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Near and Far Association IncCT151.3× affinity79 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Newman's Own Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association Of · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Scripps Family Fund for Education

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organisation FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024

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Alliance for Community Empowerment Inc — 100% of income from government
The Housing Collective Inc — 100% of income from government
Simplifyct Inc — 66% of income from government
Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
Southwestern Ct Agency On Aging Inc — 44% of income from government
Integrated Refugee and Immigrant — 37% of income from government
Save the Sound — 37% of income from government
Connecticut Institute for Refugees and — 37% of income from government
Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
Aspetuck Land Trust — 28% of income from government
Connecticut Council for — 24% of income from government
Greater Boston Food Bank Inc — 22% of income from government
Connecticut Legal Services Inc — 18% of income from government
The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
Green Village Initiative Inc — 14% of income from government
Project Music Inc — 14% of income from government
The Maryland Food Bank Inc — 11% of income from government
United Way of Coastal and — 11% of income from government
Planned Parenthood of — 10% of income from government
The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc — 9% of income from government
Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc — 9% of income from government
City Lights & Company — 9% of income from government
Sterling House Community Center Inc — 8% of income from government
Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc — 7% of income from government
Norwalk Acts Inc — 6% of income from government
Women's Business Development Council — 5% of income from government
Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 5% of income from government
Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 4% of income from government
Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc — 3% of income from government
Fusion Partnership Inc — 3% of income from government
Berkshire Taconic Community — 2% of income from government
Intempo Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
Connecticut Rise Network Inc — 2% of income from government
New Haven Legal Assistance Association — 2% of income from government
Boys & Girls Club of Martin County — 2% of income from government
Becket Athenaeum Inc — 1% of income from government
All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
Stepping Stones Museum for Children — 1% of income from government
Connecticut Audubon Society Inc — 1% of income from government
The Norwalk Art Space Inc — 1% of income from government
Jewish Home for the Elderly of Fairfield — 0% of income from government
The Stamford Hospital — 0% of income from government

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

47get no government money at all

3rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: CHOOSE CHICAGO FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

high risk

~1 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 8 filed years.

Track record & reputation

low risk

8 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 156.4× since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 454847768 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on CHOOSE CHICAGO FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

FlagFinancial stability— Roughly 1 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 98% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Fairfield County's Community Foundation?

Find your warmest path to Fairfield County's Community Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines