· Private foundation
Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k20 grants · $60k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Greater Bridgeport Symphony | $32,000 |
| Greater Connecticut Youth Orchestra | $10,000 |
| The Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundation | $10,000 |
| Mikey's Way Foundation | $10,000 |
| Homes for the Brave | $10,000 |
| Brady's Smile | $5,000 |
| The Connecticut Zoological Society | $5,000 |
| Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation | $5,000 |
| Easton Senior Citizen's Center Inc | $4,000 |
| Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County | $4,000 |
| Wakeman Boys and Girls | $4,000 |
| American Red Cross Connecticut Chapter | $4,000 |
| Bridgeport Rescue Mission | $4,000 |
| Junior Achievement of Western Connecticut Inc | $3,000 |
| Mercy Learning Center | $3,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $119k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 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
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 +38% since the first grant, against +0% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down; 1 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, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- ABAPPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT9× · 2017–2025 · $60k · revenue +55%
- KMKLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC8× · 2018–2025 · $55k · revenue +126%
- CZCONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +50%
Funded once
- NFNorma F Pfriem Urban Outreach Initiativesone grant, 2017 · $5k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2020 · $4k
- SOSQUARE ONE THEATRE COMPANYone grant, 2017 · $2k
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.
Annual summer festival held in Branford, CT.
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
To provide a compassionate community where loving care enables aged and indigent individuals from meriden and connecticut to live with dignity in a secure, homelike environment.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
Barrington stage company is a theatre company in the berkshires with a mission to produce top-notch compelling work; to develop new plays and musicals; and to find fresh, bold ways of bringing new audiences into the theatre, especially…
The connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
The bridge academy, inc. was granted a charter to operate the bridge academy, a public school located in the city of bridgeport, ct. the school was founded in 1997 to provide college preparatory curriculum designed to overcome the…
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
The purpose of the organization is to provide quality childcare for children living in the state of connecticut.
Founded in 1986, building neighborhoods together's (bnt) mission is to end housing insecurity, income inequality, and homelessness by creating safe, affordable housing, and providing comprehensive housing and financial counseling services…
To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.
How this is measured
26 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. 26 of the 50 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 MIKEY'S WAY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
- Who funds KLEIN MEMORIAL AUDITORIUM FOUNDATIONINC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYINC ↗
- Who funds EASTON SENIOR CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds BRADYS SMILE ↗
- Who funds Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc ↗
- Who funds The Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds THE BARNUM MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BURROUGHS COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds EASTON COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY CHORALE INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Camp Rising Sun Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds CHRISTIAN CAMPS & CONFERENCE 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Cyrus W & Amy F Jones & Bessie D Phelps Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Synchrony Foundation · The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inc · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Barnum Museum Foundation Inc: 100% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc: 37% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc: 32% of income from government
- Emerge Inc: 30% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc: 14% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
- Neighborhood Studios of Fairfield County Inc: 3% of income from government
- Fairfield County Chorale Inc: 3% of income from government
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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