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Impact 100 Fairfield County

IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY was formed to provide grants to local exempt organizations in furtherance of such organization's tax-exempt, charitable purpose.

$472k
Granted FY2025still arriving
24
Grants FY2025still arriving
1
States reached
$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2018–2025.

Education$402kHuman Services$364kCrime & Legal$332kEmployment$287kHousing & Shelter$262kFood & Nutrition$232kYouth Development$162kHealth$158kOther$0
02FY2025 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

The 24 grants below total $460,000 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $471,500 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $11,500 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.

By grant size · FY2025

  • $10k–50k22 grants · $260k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $200k
$10,000
Median grant
1
States reached
$559k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC$100,000
THE ROWAN CENTER INC$100,000
DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC$20,000
BUILDON$20,000
PERSON TO PERSON INC$20,000
THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC$20,000
FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC$10,000
BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY$10,000
STAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC$10,000
CATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INC$10,000
HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC$10,000
NEW REACH INC$10,000
INTEMPO ORGANIZATIONS INC$10,000
CAREER RESOURCES INC$10,000
INSPIRICA INC$10,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY18–25, $483k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $100k → 9%THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $20k → 9%THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $10k → 9%HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $100k → 9%HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE: $11k → 9%HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $10k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS: $111k → 9%FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC: $10k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $50k → 9%CHILDRENS LEARNING CENTER: $20k → 9%BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY: $10k → 9%CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTER OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY: $1k → 9%DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER: $10k → 9%CARVER FOUNDATION OF NORWALK: $10k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

04

Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 76% of Impact 100 Fairfield County’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 99% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 78% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

Impact 100 Fairfield Countylessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

76%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$1.7M · 18 repeat orgs$539k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2025, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

$1.7M
$249k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
0%

Still filing today

94%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $290k went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
Human ServicesEducationHealthHousing & ShelterYouth DevelopmentCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • HN
    HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC
    3× · 2020–2025 · $121k · revenue +80%
  • CAREER RESOURCES INC
    2× · 2020–2025 · $121k · revenue +77%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC
    2× · 2024–2025 · $121k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREENWICH
    one grant, 2024 · $20k · revenue 0%
  • F5
    FUTURE 5 INCgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · $20k · revenue +45%
  • MC
    MID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC
    one grant, 2023 · $20k · revenue +22%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Women and Families Center

Wfc is committed to promoting equity and to improving quality of life through services that foster empowerment and independence. our guiding vision: to be the leading agent for positive social change.

Human Services
2
Family Centers Inc

Family centers inc. is a non-stock, nonprofit corporation whose mission is to empower children, adults, families and communities to realize their potential. for more information, see schedule o.

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3
The Children's Community Programs of Ct

The children's community programs of connecticut, inc., is a nonprofit, multi-service agency whose mission is to provide diverse and creative support services to children and families throughout connecticut.

Health
4
Community Health Center Inc

Community health center (chc) is building a world class primary care organization, improving health outcomes and building healthier communities through clinical excellence, research and innovation, and training the next generation. chc is…

Health
5
Community Solutions Inc

Positively impacting the lives of our clients and their communities by providing services that facilitate skill development, enhance responsible citizenship, and increase overall well-being.

Health
6
The Workplace Inc

The organization provides job training, placement, and counseling for dislocated and economically disadvantaged individuals in the bridgeport, norwalk, stamford and valley labor market areas.

Employment
7
United Services Inc

United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…

Human Services
8
The Child Center of Ny Inc

The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.

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9
Focus Center for Autism Inc

Focus center for autism: helping children and adults with autism achieve their full potential.

Education
10
Community Guidance Clinic for Central Connecticut Inc

Community guidance clinic for central connecticut, an established and trusted community resource, provides comprehensive evidence-based behavioral health services that promote wellness and resilience. our collaborative, family-focused,…

Human Services
11
United Way of Greater New Haven Inc

United way of greater new haven brings people and organizations together to create solutions to our region's most pressing challenges in the areas of education, health, and financial stability, grounded in racial and social justice. we…

Philanthropy
12
Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership Inc

Leap empowers young people to be leaders who create a nurturing community for children in need. we believe that families in all neighborhoods deserve access to learning opportunities that inspire a broad world view and encourage young…

Education

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Child and Family Guidance Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Jewish Family Services of Greenwich. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyDarien Community Organizati…Home Health & Hospice Servi…Jewish Community ServicesIndependent K-12 SchoolsInternational Youth Develop…Medical Research & Patient …Affordable Housing Developm…Real Estate & Business Asso…Senior Care and Health Serv…Systems Change & Innovation
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 43 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number19%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%18%10–20yr20%20%20–35yr12%28%35–55yr18%35%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value19%0%<5yr12%0%5–10yr20%28%10–20yr20%20%20–35yr12%24%35–55yr18%28%55yr+

The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
0.0%0/41
the rest of the field
11%
677/6,412

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

40 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 40 of the 41 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
40/40
Grantees still filing
23/40
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC — $120,500 · OtherBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INCCATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INC — $112,000 · OtherCATHOLIC ACADEMY OF BRIDGEPORT INCThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc — $112,000 · OtherThe Center For Empowerment And Education IncKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $110,000 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INCTHE ROWAN CENTER INC — $110,000 · OtherTHE ROWAN CENTER INCINTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC — $110,000 · OtherINTEMPO ORGANIZATION INCNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC — $111,000 · OtherNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC+15 more — $250,500 · Other+15 moreHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $121,000 · Human ServicesHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE…FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $120,500 · Human ServicesFILLING IN THE BLANKS I…THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $110,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY J…BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $70,000 · Human ServicesBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY …CHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $21,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC — $20,000 · Human Services+2 more — $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC — $110,000 · Crime & LegalTHE HOUSIN…EMERGE CONNECTICUT INC — $100,000 · Crime & LegalEMERGE CON…ALL OUR KIN INC — $121,000 · EducationTEACHING MATTERS INC — $20,000 · EducationGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC — $11,000 · EducationNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 · EducationSTAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON INC — $36,000 · PhilanthropyNEW REACH INC — $111,000 · Housing & ShelterTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC — $21,000 · Housing & ShelterCAREER RESOURCES INC — $121,000 · Employment
Other$1,036,000Human Services$482,500Crime & Legal$210,000Education$159,500Philanthropy$146,000Housing & Shelter$132,000Employment$121,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC — $121,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCAREER RESOURCES INC — $121,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALL OUR KIN INC — $121,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetFILLING IN THE BLANKS INC — $120,500 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF STAMFORD INC — $120,500 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetThe Center For Empowerment And Education Inc — $112,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC — $111,000 over 2y, 6.2% of budgetNEW REACH INC — $111,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC — $110,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetTHE ROWAN CENTER INC — $110,000 over 1y, 6.8% of budgetTHE HOUSING COLLECTIVE INC — $110,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSTAMFORD PUBLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC — $110,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC — $110,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetINTEMPO ORGANIZATION INC — $110,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetEMERGE CONNECTICUT INC — $100,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetBUILDING ONE COMMUNITY CORP — $70,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC — $36,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S LEARNING CENTERS OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $21,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC — $21,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES OF GREENWICH — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetINSPIRICA INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMID-FAIRFIELD CHILD GUIDANCE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTEACHING MATTERS INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC — $20,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOPTIMUS HEALTH CARE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWAKEMAN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC — $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN'S MENTORING NETWORK INC — $16,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC — $16,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENS FARMS ACADEMY INC — $11,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARVER INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC — $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOMUS KIDS INC — $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Fairfield County's Co…The Near and Far Asso…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Peoples United Commun…New Canaan Community …The Inner-City Founda…The Tudor Foundation …Stamford Rotary Trust…The Scripps Family Fu…William Caspar Graust…The Herbert & Nell Si…Synchrony Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT58.8× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · Synchrony Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Impact 100 Fairfield County funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%1%4%8%15%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 22%
  • The Housing Collective Inc — 100% of income from government
  • Mill River Collaborative Inc — 100% of income from government
  • The Child and Family Guidance Center Inc — 86% of income from government
  • Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
  • The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
  • New Reach Inc — 49% of income from government
  • Emerge Connecticut Inc — 47% of income from government
  • Jewish Family Services of Greenwich — 41% of income from government
  • Children's Learning Centers of Fairfield County Inc — 36% of income from government
  • Career Resources Inc — 35% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc — 30% of income from government
  • Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
  • Stamford Public Education Foundation Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Optimus Health Care Inc — 22% of income from government
  • Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
  • Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
  • The Carver Inc — 16% of income from government
  • The Discovery Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
  • Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
  • Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
  • Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
  • Intempo Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
  • Women's Mentoring Network Inc — 1% of income from government
  • All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 41 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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