· Private foundation
Hobbs Family Charitable Trust
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k30 grants · $30k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $20k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WAVENY LIFE CARE NETWORK | $100,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD THEATER BARN | $10,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $3,000 |
| THE GA JUSTICE PROJECT INC | $2,500 |
| GATEWAY CENTER | $2,500 |
| MD ANDERSON CENTER | $2,000 |
| AMERICARES | $2,000 |
| CONG CHURCH OF NEW CANAAN | $1,500 |
| THE GLASS HOUSE | $1,500 |
| COMPASSION AND CHOICES | $1,000 |
| FAMILY CENTERS | $1,000 |
| SHELTER TO SOLDIER | $1,000 |
| STEPPING STONES MUSEUM CHILDREN | $1,000 |
| ATLANTA SPEECH SCHOOL | $1,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +29% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
51 repeat relationships: 23 still active in FY2025, 28 since wound down; 9 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, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $11k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC7× · 2017–2024 · $110k · revenue +27%
- WCWAVENY CARE CENTER INC6× · 2017–2023 · $39k · revenue +82%
- FCFAMILY CENTERS INC8× · 2018–2025 · $29k · revenue +114%
Funded once
- SMST MARKS EPISCOPAL CHURCHone grant, 2022 · $65k
- JHJOHN HOPKINS UNIVERSITYone grant, 2017 · $10k
- PTPEAR TREE POINT SCHOOL FOUNDATION INCone grant, 2017 · $10k
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…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To improve the health of the region and to provide healthcare services.
The board adopted mission statement is: nyu langone hospitals (the "hospital") will operate with new york university's medical schools a health system ("nyu langone health") devoted to excellence in patient care, education and research. in…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
The goals and objectives of the corporation are as follows:(a) to operate and maintain a nonsectarian, general hospital at one or more locations for the furnishing of inpatient, ambulatory, restorative, preventative and emergency medical…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
To support its member healthcare organizations further innovation and excellence in patient care, teaching, and research.
How this is measured
65 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. 65 of the 116 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 NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAVENY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds RIDGEFIELD WORKSHOP FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE GATEWAY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds PARKINSON'S FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WAVENY PARK CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds PEAR TREE POINT SCHOOL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MARYVILLE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds GOUCHER COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN EMS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK-PRESBYTERIAN FUND INC ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds YALE NEW HAVEN HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FUTURE 5 INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN CARES INC ↗
- Who funds STEPHEN SILLER TUNNEL TO TOWERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN 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: New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Seelert Foundation Inc · The Morris Family Foundation · The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc · Half Moon Foundation · The Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio · Hilltop Foundation Inc · Corbet Family Foundation · The Queenan Fdn Acct · MLE Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Hobbs Family Charitable Trust funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hobbs Family Charitable Trust. Bigger dots raise more.
- Operation Fuel Incorporated: 51% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University: 12% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc: 7% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
- Yale New Haven Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
- Goucher College: 0% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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