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Fairfield County Sports Commission Inc at a glanceMostly funded, not a grantmaker: see who funds it →

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Fairfield County Sports Commission Inc

The Commission promotes fitness and an active, healthy lifestyle and personal development through sports.

$47k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
States reached
$10k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0197% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Youth Development$64kEducation$31kRecreation & Sports$16kHuman Services$11kCommunity Improvement$10kArts & Culture$5kPhilanthropy$5kHealth$2kOther$0
02FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 7 grants below total $35,000, the rows itemized in this filing. The $47,000 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $12,000 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k6 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $10k
$5,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$58k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Dovetail SIP$10,000
Brakette's$5,000
Kids Helping Kids$5,000
EJ's Heart$5,000
Marist Student Financial Services$5,000
Chelsea Piers Scholarship Fund$2,500
Chelsea Piers Foundation$2,500
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY18–24, $29k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%CMAK Sandy Hook Foundation: $2k → 9%Dovetail SIP: $10k → 9%Carver Community Center: $9k → 9%Carver Foundation: $5k → 9%Carver Foundation: $2k → 9%Carver Foundation: $1k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$80k · 7 repeat orgs$65k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +25% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

7 repeat relationships: 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
13

Total granted

$80k
$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+16%

Still filing today

71%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 29% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $25k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Youth DevelopmentRecreation & SportsHuman ServicesPhilanthropyHealthEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • KH
    KIDS HELPING KIDS INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $19k · revenue +21%
  • TC
    THE CARVER INC
    4× · 2018–2023 · $17k · revenue +132%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC
    3× · 2017–2023 · $17k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUTgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · $13k · revenue +36%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +10%
  • BP
    BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS
    one grant, 2017 · $5k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
Stratford High School Lacrosse

Youth Sports activities

Recreation & Sports
2
Bridgeport Caribe Youth Leaders Inc

To provide youth with sports, educational and civic direction helping them build the character and self-esteem they need to reach their full potential and value in society.

Youth Development
3
Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc

Leap empowers young people to be leaders who create a nurturing community for children in need. we believe that families in all neighborhoods deserve access to learning opportunities that inspire a broad world view and encourage young…

Education
4
Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc

Boys & girls clubs of boston (bgcb) stands as a transformative force in boston and chelsea, where high expectations unlock greatness. we believe that every young person who walks through our doors carries limitless potential. through our…

Youth Development
5
Rye Youth Soccer Club Inc

The program was formed to foster, promote, encourage and support the playing of soccer in the city of rye, new york.

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6
Masters School

The masters school celebrates active participation, deep understanding, and meaningful connection. a community of diverse individuals, we gather to learn, to strive, to dare, to do - to be a power for good in the world.

—
7
Batavia Youth Lacrosse
Youth Development
8
Racers Youth Fastpitch

Teach teamwork and leadership

Recreation & Sports
9
The Lindy Infante Foundation
Recreation & Sports
10
Flow Athletics

Flow provides the mentorship, resources, and community support that allow young athletes to thrive across every field, court and classroom. Our purpose at Flow Athletics is to prepare the next generation of student-athletes for life on and…

Recreation & Sports
11
Youth Soccer Association of New Haven Inc

Develop local youth in soccer skills and team play

—
12
Harlem Lacrosse and Leadership Corporation

Harlem lacrosse's mission is to empower the children who are most at risk for academic decline and dropout to rise above their challenges and reach their full potential. harlem lacrosse inspires children to dream about tomorrow while…

Recreation & Sports
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cardinal Shehan Center Inc; the most unlike its peers is Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

17 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. 17 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
13/17
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $16,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INCCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC: $10,500 · OtherCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INCCHELSEA PIERS AQUATIC CLUB: $10,000 · OtherCHELSEA PIERS AQUATIC CLUBEJS HEART: $5,000 · OtherEJS HEARTBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS: $5,000 · OtherBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLSHoops for All Inc: $3,000 · OtherHoops for All IncUniversity of Maryland: $3,000 · OtherUniversity of Maryland+2 more: $3,050 · Other+2 moreKIDS HELPING KIDS INC: $18,500 · Youth DevelopmentKIDS HELPING KIDS INCTHE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT: $12,500 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATI…BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $5,000 · Youth DevelopmentBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWIC…FUTURE 5 INC: $2,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE CARVER INC: $17,000 · Human ServicesTHE CARVER INCDOVETAIL SIP INC: $10,000 · Human ServicesDOVETAIL SIP INCCMAK SANDY HOOK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 · Human ServicesCMAK SANDY HOOK MEMORI…BRAKETTES INC: $5,000 · Recreation & SportsBRAKETTES…THE FAIRFIELD COUNTY INTERSCHOLASTI ATHLETIC CONFERENCE INC: $4,000 · Recreation & SportsTHE FAIRF…LEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS: $1,500 · Recreation & SportsLEAPS OF …BRIDGEPORT YOUTH LACROSSE INC: $1,000 · Recreation & SportsBRIDGEPOR…MARIST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 · EducationFERRARO FAMILY FOUNDATION INCORPORATED: $2,250 · PhilanthropyNEWTOWN YOUTH ACADEMY INC: $1,000 · PhilanthropyDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,500 · Health
Other$56,050Youth Development$38,000Human Services$29,000Recreation & Sports$11,500Education$5,000Philanthropy$3,250Health$1,500

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetKIDS HELPING KIDS INC: $18,500 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTHE CARVER INC: $17,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC: $16,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT GOLF FOUNDATION INC THE FIRST TEE OF CONNECTICUT: $12,500 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC: $10,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetDOVETAIL SIP INC: $10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMARIST UNIVERSITY: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAKETTES INC: $5,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF GREENWICH: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FAIRFIELD COUNTY INTERSCHOLASTI ATHLETIC CONFERENCE INC: $4,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCMAK SANDY HOOK MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEAPS OF FAITH WATER SKI CLUB INC dba LOF ADAPTIVE SKIERS: $1,500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: $1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWTOWN YOUTH ACADEMY INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budget
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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…The per and Astrid He…The Pitney Bowes Foun…The Bank of America C…National Philanthropi…American Online Givin…Donor Advised Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT23.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The per and Astrid Heidenreich Family Foundation · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Fairfield County Sports Commission Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fairfield County Sports Commission Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 90%1%3%6%10%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 7%
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc: 17% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Greenwich: 7% of income from government
  • Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
  • Bridgeport Youth Lacrosse Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Cardinal Shehan Center Inc: 4% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
9get no government money at all
1report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 24 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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