New York · Private foundation
Inisfad Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $108k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 54%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $55,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 11 to 18
- FY2022 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $609k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 54% of the organizations Inisfad Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 35% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 65% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $32k 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 | 18 | $108k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $91k | 54% |
| FY2023 | 18 | $77k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 11 | $39k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2022 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building One Community Corp | $161,050 | 4 | 1% |
| The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc | $30,899 | 4 | 2% |
| Laurel House Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Norwalk Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Norwalk Community College Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Darien Library Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Holy Cross Monastery | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Helping Kids | $1,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Norwalk Seaport Association Inc | $1,075 | 2 | 0% |
| Food Rescue US Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Building One Community Corp | $161,050 | 4 | 1% |
| The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc | $30,899 | 4 | 2% |
| Laurel House Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Norwalk Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Norwalk Community College Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Darien Library Inc | $4,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Holy Cross Monastery | $2,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Helping Kids | $1,500 | 1 | 2% |
| Norwalk Seaport Association Inc | $1,075 | 2 | 0% |
| Food Rescue US Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| American Friends of Learners in Kenya | $515 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc | $250 | 1 | 0% |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | $210 | 1 | 0% |
| Knights of Columbus | $100 | 1 | n/a |
| Darien Community Association Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
| Mather Homestead Foundation | $41 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($83k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Inisfad 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: Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Maurice Goodman Foundation Inc Tr · The Goodnow Fund · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation
How this is measured
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About Inisfad Foundation Inc
- How much does Inisfad Foundation Inc give?
- Inisfad Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $108,481 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 11 and 18 organizations a year over FY2022 to FY2024.
- What does Inisfad Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2022 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (23%), Human Services (18%), Arts & Culture (4%).
- Who are Inisfad Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2022 to FY2025: Building One Community Corp ($161k), The Norwalk Symphony Society Inc ($31k), Laurel House Inc ($10k).
- Does Inisfad Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 54% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Inisfad Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Inisfad Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Connecticut Humanities Council Inc, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Maurice Goodman Foundation Inc Tr.
- Where is Inisfad Foundation Inc based?
- Inisfad Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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