Connecticut · Private foundation
Half Moon Foundation
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.
- $316k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 41
- Grants FY2025
- 39
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $102,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 36 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Half Moon Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 38 | $304k | 5% |
| FY2024 | 39 | $322k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 38 | $254k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 38 | $227k | 3% |
| FY2021 | 38 | $299k | 16% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $358k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $337k | 14% |
| FY2018 | 38 | $238k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The New Canaan Library Inc | $618,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Millbrook School | $502,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Americares Foundation Inc | $344,120 | 9 | 0% |
| Williams College | $197,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $110,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Friends of Acadia | $48,500 | 9 | 0% |
| The New Canaan Country School Incorporated | $45,000 | 9 | 0% |
| National Louis University | $40,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The New Canaan Community Young Men's Christian Association Inc | $30,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Foxcroft School | $21,000 | 9 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 18 recipients with no EIN on record ($426k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Half Moon Foundation supplied at peak.
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: Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · MLE Foundation Inc · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Queenan Fdn Acct · The Rein Family Foundation Inc · Squier Family Foundation · The Morris Family Foundation · Jeniam Foundation · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Kontulis Fund · The Ward Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Half Moon Foundation
- How much does Half Moon Foundation give?
- Half Moon Foundation reported 41 grants totaling $315,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 36 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Half Moon Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (53%), International (12%), Health (11%).
- Who are Half Moon Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The New Canaan Library Inc ($618k), Millbrook School ($503k), Americares Foundation Inc ($344k).
- Does Half Moon Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Half Moon 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 Half Moon Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hobbs Family Charitable Trust, New Canaan Community Foundation Inc, MLE Foundation Inc.
- Where is Half Moon Foundation based?
- Half Moon Foundation is based in CT.
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