Connecticut · Private foundation
Harriet & M Fred Cartoun 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.
- $38k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $7,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 18
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $682k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 14 | $38k | 21% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $34k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $35k | 25% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $39k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 12 | $33k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $34k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $35k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Faith Food Pantry | $32,700 | 7 | 3% |
| Newtown Fund Inc | $29,974 | 7 | n/a |
| Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester | $29,300 | 7 | n/a |
| E Town | $9,700 | 5 | 0% |
| Death of Classical Inc | $8,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Redding Easton Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 1% |
| American Heart Association Inc | $4,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Redding Land Trust Inc | $3,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Monroe Mandolin Camp | $3,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Newtown Childrens Museum Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($105k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc 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: Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc
- How much does Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc give?
- Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $38,100 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 18 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (27%), Food & Nutrition (23%), Religion (17%).
- Who are Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Faith Food Pantry ($33k), Newtown Fund Inc ($30k), Congregation Emanu-El of Westchester ($29k).
- Does Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc 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 Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc, Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc based?
- Harriet & M Fred Cartoun Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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