· Private foundation
Nessel Family 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.
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 $10k15 grants · $72k
- $10k–50k12 grants · $205k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $100k
- $250k+1 grant · $500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Trinity Episcopal Church | $500,000 |
| Thrive Cooperative Center for Wellness | $100,000 |
| Bridgeport Hospital Foundation | $35,000 |
| Norwalk Hospital Foundation | $30,000 |
| Center for Family Justice | $30,000 |
| Americares Foundation | $20,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Applied Behaviorial Rehabilitation Institute dba Home For the Brave | $10,000 |
| IRIS Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services | $10,000 |
| Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles | $10,000 |
| Nourish Bridgeport Inc | $10,000 |
| Norma F Pfriem Breast Care Center | $10,000 |
| Everytown | $10,000 |
| Mercy Learning Center | $10,000 |
| Wilton High School | $7,500 |
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, $320k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-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.
39 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 13 since wound down; 3 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $520k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BHBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC9× · 2017–2025 · $340k · revenue +66%
- TCTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC9× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +46%
- NHNorwalk Hospital Foundation9× · 2017–2025 · $295k · revenue +6%
Funded once
- TCThrive Cooperative Ceneter for Wellnessone grant, 2023 · $200k
- ABAbaco-Winding Bay Relief Fundone grant, 2019 · $5k
- HPHAITI PLUNGE INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +37%
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.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
To provide free health care to uninsured residents of norwalk, danbury, stamford & bridgeport ct.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
Connecticut public broadcasting, inc. will inform, educate and inspire the people of connecticut, connecting and empowering the people of ct through outstanding journalism, storytelling, education and experiences, to make our state a more…
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 connecticut humane society is the leading resource in the state for companion animal welfare, enriching the lives of families and communities through adoption services, medical care, education, and prevention of cruelty.
Brighton marine, inc. provides military and veteran families with comprehensive campus-based quality health care, as well as affordable and supportive housing for at-risk veterans and their families.
Our mission is to partner with individuals, youth, and families to improve well-being, strengthen resilience, and create a brighter future. resilience is the process of effectively managing significant sources of stress or trauma. it's…
To protect women's health and reproductive choice through advocacy in connecticut.
How this is measured
39 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. 39 of the 51 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 BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Grace Cottage Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE THRIVE COOPERATIVE CENTER FOR WELLNESS INC ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Challenge Inc DBA Mission Your Mission CT Challenge ↗
- Who funds APPLIED BEHAVIORAL REHABILITATION INSTIT ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds INTEGRATED REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OPERATION HOPE OF FAIRFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD WOODS MIDDLE SCHOOL PTSA ↗
- Who funds THE ROGER LUDLOWE MIDDLE SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds HAITIAN EDUCATIONAL INITIATIVES ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE SOUND ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT AUDUBON SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Norwalk River Valley Trail Inc ↗
- Who funds ASPETUCK LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds MILL RIVER WETLAND COMMITTEE INC ↗
- Who funds FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD OF SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND INC ↗
- Who funds Save The Children Federation Inc ↗
- Who funds MILESTONES BEHAVIORAL SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc ↗
- Who funds PEQUOT LIBRARY ASSOCIATION ↗
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 · Cannupa Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Kreitler Foundation Inc Dba the Hobart and Sally Kreitler Foundinc · Ge Aerospace Foundation · The Inglesea Charitable Trust · Tauck Family Foundation · Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Estate of Benjamin B Lewis
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Nessel Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Nessel Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Center for Family Justice Inc: 49% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services: 37% of income from government
- Save the Sound: 37% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Aspetuck Land Trust: 28% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc: 19% of income from government
- Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc: 15% of income from government
- Green Village Initiative Inc: 14% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
- Friends of Ambler Farm Inc: 7% of income from government
- Jerusalem Peacebuilders Inc: 5% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Audubon Society Inc: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pequot Library Association: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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