· Private foundation
Fairfield 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $23k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $77k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CASA FOR HUNT COUNTY | $17,500 |
| HOOKER RANCH EQUINE REFUGE | $17,500 |
| Rett Syndrome Research Trust | $15,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH | $15,000 |
| WINNETKA CONGRETATIONAL CHURCH | $11,961 |
| NEW LIFE BAPTIST CHURCH OF CHICAGO | $6,500 |
| TRINITY PRESBYTERIAN | $5,000 |
| HOUSING OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT COR | $5,000 |
| Northeast Illinois Council of BSA | $2,500 |
| OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL | $2,000 |
| RISE INTERNATIONAL | $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.
Its human-services grants (FY21–21, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 5%, 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.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
10 repeat relationships: 9 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- HOHOUSING OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP5× · 2020–2025 · $123k · revenue +163%
- RSRETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC4× · 2022–2025 · $45k · revenue +22%
- CFCASA FOR HUNT COUNTY INC2× · 2024–2025 · $23k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- WCWinnetka Congregation Churchone grant, 2020 · $10k
- PTPONY TALES REFUGE AND REHAB INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +343%
- BHBeckys Hope Horse Rescue Incone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue -52%
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.
Hope reins' vision is to inspire true hope and real healing for every child. at our ranch, we pair children and teens experiencing trauma with a rescued horse and mentor to find hope and healing. the free-of-charge individual and group…
Equine Activities under PATH International Building a compassionate community to challenge adversity to grow.
To promote the security of horses through rehabilitation, veterinary care, and education.
To rescue and provide medical treatment for abused and abandoned animals; to rehabilitate rescued animals and find permanent placement in loving adoptive homes; to provide loving lifelong care at our sanctuary for those animals who are not…
The organization was founded to provide shelter and care for mistreated or abandoned horses. they provide shelter, food and veterinary services for these animals until a suitable home can be found. as a secondary service, they provide…
Continue to provide rescues of horses,donkeys, and large dogs
To assist individuals with special needs in meeting their full potential through interaction with horses.
Our Vision: A community where the impossible becomes possible. Our mission: To enrich the lives of people with physical, cognitive or emotional challenges through a relationship with a horse.
Healing with Horseplay is an animal protection and welfare organization that rescues animals, primarily horses, that are abused, neglected or to be sent to slaughter and then rehabilitates them. After training them they will be sold to…
To rescue, rehabilitate, and re-home abused, neglected and slaughter bound horses of all breads and sizes. To provide a safe, loving and rehabilitative home, including all needed medical care, to every incoming animal. Once ready for their…
The American Therapeutic Riding Center improves physically and emotionally challenged people through equine-facilitated therapy.
Heavens ranch rescue is committed to relieving the suffering of equines enduring abuse, neglect or abandonment. we provide rescued horses with a consistent environment and a second chance to find a qualified home.
How this is measured
9 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. 9 of the 17 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 HOUSING OPPORTUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORP ↗
- Who funds RETT SYNDROME RESEARCH TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds CASA FOR HUNT COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF THE SOUTH ↗
- Who funds RISE International ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL INC D/B/A OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL-US ↗
- Who funds PONY TALES REFUGE AND REHAB INC ↗
- Who funds Beckys Hope Horse Rescue Inc ↗
- Who funds Mane Gait ↗
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: National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fairfield Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fairfield Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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