· 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.
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 · FY2024
- Under $10k13 grants · $24k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $151k
- $250k+1 grant · $625k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| AMERICAN CLASSICAL ORCHESTRA | $625,000 |
| WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN | $101,000 |
| WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE | $50,250 |
| TOWN OF WESTON CONNECTICUT | $8,200 |
| MARTHA GRAHAM CENTER OF CONTEMPORARY DANCE | $2,500 |
| TOWN OF WESTON CONNECTICUT | $2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| 211 PALM BEACH AND TREASURE COAST | $2,000 |
| BE LOVED ASHEVILLE | $1,000 |
| BEST FRIENDS FOR LIFE ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
| BROTHER WOLF ANIMAL RESCUE | $1,000 |
| THE GREATER BOSTON FOOD BANK | $1,000 |
| ASPETUCK LAND TRUST | $1,000 |
| FRIENDS OF LACHAT | $500 |
| ALZHEIMER'S ASSOCIATION | $350 |
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 (FY17–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +23% since the first grant, against +10% for those funded once.
21 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $108k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- NHNorwalk Hospital Foundation2× · 2017–2020 · $27k · revenue +6%
- FOFRIENDS OF LACHAT INC7× · 2017–2024 · $16k · revenue +218%
- ALASPETUCK LAND TRUST5× · 2017–2024 · $14k · revenue +57%
Funded once
- DHDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $15k · revenue -12%
- BCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +17%
CITY HARVEST INCone grant, 2020 · $10k · revenue +3%
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.
Driven by the belief that access to healthy food is a basic right for all people, feeding westchester leads hunger action programs and mobilizes the resources needed to eradicate hunger in westchester county.
To pursue anti-hunger initiatives through the west side campaign against hunger (wscah) program whose mission is to alleviate hunger by ensuring that all new yorkers have access with dignity to a choice of healthy food and supportive…
The mission of feeding new york state is to lead a unified effort for a hunger-free state of new york. the mission of food banking is to obtain food and deliver it to emergency food programs. feeding new york state works to end hunger by…
Foodshare is leading an informed, coordinated response to hunger as part of the overall community effort to alleviate poverty in hartford and tolland counties.
United Food Bank unites communities to alleviate hunger.
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Food forward fights hunger and prevents food waste by rescuing fresh surplus produce, connecting this abundance with people experiencing food insecurity, and inspiring others to do the same.
To gather and share quality food and nurture partnerships so that no one in vermont will go hungry.
Waste Not cultivates sustainable food systems that help people and the planet flourish. We do this by eliminating food waste and hunger through innovative community partnerships.
The mission of island harvest is to end hunger and reduce food waste on long island.
The food bank's mission is to provide nutritious food to non-profit organizations that feed the hungry in darien, greenwich, new canaan, norwalk, stamford and wilton ct., while seeking to raise awareness of, and promote action to combat,…
Food & water watch conducts extensive research and public education to ensure the food and water we consume is safe, accessible and sustainably produced. so we can all enjoy and trust in what we eat and drink, we help people take charge of…
How this is measured
52 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 52 of the 64 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 The American Classical Orchestra Inc ↗
- Who funds WESTPORT COUNTRY PLAYHOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds WESTON COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Weston Arts Inc ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF LACHAT INC ↗
- Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds Feeding America ↗
- Who funds WESTON VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT INC ↗
- Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
- Who funds CITY HARVEST INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC ↗
- Who funds SHARE OUR STRENGTH ↗
- Who funds Philabundance ↗
- Who funds THE WILDERNESS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds EVERYTOWN FOR GUN SAFETY SUPPORT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds OPEN SPACE INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds DIG DEEP ↗
- Who funds THE LEGAL AID SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT LEGAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK FOR NEW YORK CITY ↗
- Who funds PRO BONO NET INC ↗
- Who funds SANDY HOOK PROMISE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds NATURAL RESOURCES DEFENSE COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WESTON WARM-UP FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MUSIC ON THE HILL INC ↗
- Who funds The Alcohol and Drug Awareness Program of Weston Inc ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE OF ORANGE AND SULLIVAN COUNTIES 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fernwood Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fernwood Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Aspetuck Land Trust: 28% of income from government
- Greater Boston Food Bank Inc: 22% of income from government
- Connecticut Legal Services Inc: 18% of income from government
- Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc: 7% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- Music On the Hill Inc: 3% of income from government
- Westport Country Playhouse Inc: 2% of income from government
- Sandy Hook Promise Foundation: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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