· Private foundation
Gerda and Ole Skaarup Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FAIRFIELD COUNTYS COMM FDN INC | $1,035,905 |
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 (FY21–24, $4k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, 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 +16% since the first grant, against +2% for those funded once.
43 repeat relationships: 0 still active in FY2025, 43 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.0M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SISOUNDWATERS INC8× · 2017–2024 · $37k · revenue +61%
- RJROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY6× · 2017–2024 · $10k · revenue +391%
- WWAMC7× · 2017–2024 · $8k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- TGTHE GREENWICH LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · $6k · revenue -66%
- NFNORTHSTAR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $3k · revenue -63%
- MOMuseum of Modern Artone grant, 2017 · $2k · revenue -20%
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.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The new york botanical garden is a museum of plants and a scientific research center devoted to the study of plants and their uses. it is the garden's mission to improve public understanding of the natural world, horticulture, and the…
To make the mind more curious, the heart more open, and the spirit more joyful through excellent audio programming that is deeply rooted in new york.
The mission of the brooklyn institute of arts and sciences, d/b/a brooklyn museum (the "museum") is to bring people together through art and experiences that inspire celebration, compassion, courage, and the will to act. (see schedule o).
The long island museum is dedicated to inspiring people of all ages with an understanding and enjoyment of american art, history and carriages as expressed through the heritage of long island and its diverse communities.
The maritime aquarium at norwalk seeks to ignite a connection to long island sound and the ocean to enrich the lives of all people and inspire action to protect our blue planet.
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
Overview - founded in boston by pioneering landscape architect and open space visionary charles eliot in 1891, the trustees is the nation's first and the commonwealth's largest conservation and preservation nonprofit.
Conserving the land. connecting the community. greenwich land trust conserves open space, connects our community with the natural world, and inspires the next generation of conservationists. the land trust permanently protects and cares…
The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.
How this is measured
34 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. 34 of the 69 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 SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds ROELIFF JANSEN COMMUNITY LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds PEGASUS THERAPEUTIC RIDING INC ↗
- Who funds WAMC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN PRAIRIE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE GREENWICH LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds ADOPT-A-DOG INC ↗
- Who funds BRUCE MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART ↗
- Who funds HUDSON RIVER SLOOP CLEARWATER INC ↗
- Who funds TURIMIQUIRE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Call-A-Ride of Greenwich Inc ↗
- Who funds ANN WIGMORE NATURAL HEALTH INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds NORTHSTAR FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WMHT EDUCATIONAL TELECOMMUNICATIONS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA LAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds Museum of Modern Art ↗
- Who funds COLUMBIA-GREENE HUMANE SOCIETY 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: Bank of Greene County Charitable Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Flood-Gamble Foundation Inc · T Backer Fund Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Rheinstrom Hill Community Foundation · The Resource Foundation Inc · Panwy Foundation Inc · Hrbt Foundation · Henry L Kimelman Family Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Gerda and Ole Skaarup Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Gerda and Ole Skaarup Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
- Guthrie Center Corp: 1% of income from government
- Greenwich Symphony Orchestra Inc: 1% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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