Connecticut · Private foundation
Garden Homes Fund
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.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 115
- Grants FY2025
- 92
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $170,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 72 to 109
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $29M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Garden Homes Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $76k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 114 | $1.5M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 92 | $1.1M | 15% |
| FY2023 | 88 | $903k | 23% |
| FY2022 | 109 | $968k | 31% |
| FY2021 | 93 | $944k | 34% |
| FY2020 | 72 | $1.2M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 93 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2018 | 79 | $1.5M | 13% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc | $1,122,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Inspirica Inc | $820,940 | 9 | 4% |
| Open Communities Alliance Inc | $504,720 | 9 | 10% |
| Columbus House Inc | $455,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Future 5 Inc | $407,760 | 8 | 6% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $310,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood of South Florida and the Treasure Coast Inc | $300,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc | $275,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Jewish Community Center Inc | $204,066 | 9 | 1% |
| Yale University | $200,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 158 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 95 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Garden Homes Fund supplied at peak.
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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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Peoples United Community Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to Garden Homes Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Garden Homes Fund
- How much does Garden Homes Fund give?
- Garden Homes Fund reported 115 grants totaling $1,473,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 72 and 109 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Garden Homes Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (21%), Housing & Shelter (16%), Education (14%).
- Who are Garden Homes Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc ($1.1M), Inspirica Inc ($821k), Open Communities Alliance Inc ($505k).
- Does Garden Homes Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Garden Homes Fund 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 Garden Homes Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund, Stamford Rotary Trust Fund.
- Where is Garden Homes Fund based?
- Garden Homes Fund is based in CT.
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