Connecticut · Private foundation
Fernwood Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $800k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 27%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $625,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Total assets, FY2024
- $4.6M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 27% of the organizations Fernwood Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $800k | 47% |
| FY2023 | 11 | $500k | 27% |
| FY2022 | 18 | $517k | 44% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $498k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 23 | $753k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 13 | $905k | 31% |
| FY2018 | 18 | $1.1M | 67% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $762k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The American Classical Orchestra Inc | $5,165,750 | 8 | 75% |
| Westport Country Playhouse Inc | $114,870 | 5 | 1% |
| World Central Kitchen Inc | $101,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Weston Community Fund Inc | $38,113 | 2 | n/a |
| Norwalk Hospital Foundation | $27,125 | 2 | 0% |
| Weston Arts Inc | $16,800 | 3 | 58% |
| Friends of Lachat Inc | $16,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aspetuck Land Trust | $14,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $12,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 53 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($89k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fernwood Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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.
Open a dossier: Mutual of America Foundation · Sherlock Family Foundation · The Daniel E Offutt III Charitable Trust · The Shack Sackler Foundation · Sherlock Charitable Foundation · Kurtz Family Foundation Trust · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Morton and Helen Yulman Charitable Trust · Donna and Stuart Farber Family Foundation Inc · Howard & Katherine Aibel Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Fernwood Foundation
- How much does Fernwood Foundation give?
- Fernwood Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $800,150 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Fernwood Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (91%), Public Safety & Disaster (2%), Food & Nutrition (1%).
- Who are Fernwood Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: The American Classical Orchestra Inc ($5.2M), Westport Country Playhouse Inc ($115k), World Central Kitchen Inc ($101k).
- Does Fernwood Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 27% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fernwood Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Fernwood Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Mutual of America Foundation, Sherlock Family Foundation, The Daniel E Offutt III Charitable Trust.
- Where is Fernwood Foundation based?
- Fernwood Foundation is based in CT.
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