· Private foundation
Hatfield Fund
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEAR & FAR AID FOUNDATION | $5,000 |
| GREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY | $5,000 |
| DISCOVERY MUSEUM | $3,500 |
| FAIRFIELD MUSEUM | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,050 |
| TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION | $500 |
| ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL | $500 |
| ADAM J LEWIS FOUNDATION | $450 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $250 |
| BUCKNELL UNIVERSITY | $250 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250 |
| CPWDA | $200 |
| HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE | $200 |
| HOUSATONIC RIVER CLEAN UP | $200 |
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 (FY17–24, $1k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 48% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
30 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TDTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC8× · 2017–2024 · $25k · revenue +31%
MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC3× · 2019–2022 · $3k · revenue +2%- PLPEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION5× · 2017–2023 · $3k · revenue +42%
Funded once
- WWSHUone grant, 2018 · $1k
- TMTHOMAS MERTON FAMILY CENTERone grant, 2023 · $1k
- CHCAROLINE HOUSE INCone grant, 2023 · $1k · revenue +15%
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 University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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.
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Organization's mission: boston university is an international, comprehensive, private research university, committed to educating students to be reflective, resourceful individuals ready to live, adapt, and lead in an interconnected world.…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
National public radio, inc. ("npr") works collaboratively with member public radio station licensees ("member stations") to create a more informed public, one that is challenged and invigorated by a deeper understanding and appreciation of…
The fsmb serves as the voice for state medical boards, supporting them through education, assessment, research and advocacy while providing services and initiatives that promote patient safety, quality health care and regulatory best…
Provider of pediatric healthcare, education, research & community service
How this is measured
32 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. 32 of the 68 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 THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds GREATER BRIDGEPORT SYMPHONY SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD HISTORICAL SOCIETY DBA FAIRFIELD MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds MYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds ST JUDE CHILDREN'S RESEARCH HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds Bucknell University ↗
- Who funds THE TAFT SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds BABSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CAROLINE HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds PYRAMID SHRINERS ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds BREAKTHROUGH T1D ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds MERRITT PARKWAY CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds CHOATE ROSEMARY HALL FOUNDATION INCORPORATED ↗
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 · Peoples United Community Foundation · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · John Patrick Flanagan Foundation Inc · David and Eunice Bigelow Foundation · The Inglesea Charitable Trust · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · The John and Ethel Kashulon Foundation · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hatfield Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hatfield Fund. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Family Justice Inc: 49% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc: 27% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of the Lower Naugatuck Valley: 19% of income from government
- The Discovery Museum Inc: 15% of income from government
- Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
- Greater Bridgeport Symphony Society Inc: 3% of income from government
- Babson College: 3% of income from government
- Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum: 1% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Bridgeport Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association: 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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