Connecticut · Private foundation
Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $334k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 91
- Grants FY2025
- 72
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 39 to 74
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $30k 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 | 90 | $334k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 72 | $231k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 74 | $200k | 19% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $252k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 45 | $106k | 42% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $140k | 25% |
| FY2019 | 39 | $86k | 21% |
| FY2018 | 41 | $92k | 34% |
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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team Inc | $70,000 | 9 | 0% |
| United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc | $65,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Lifebridge Community Services Inc | $61,000 | 9 | 0% |
| The Center For Empowerment And Education Inc | $45,750 | 8 | 0% |
| Newtown Scholarship Association Inc | $45,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Housatonic Habitat for Humanity | $35,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Women's Business Development Council Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Western Connecticut State University Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Kennedy Collective Inc | $30,000 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 73 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 69 recipients with no EIN on record ($510k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Newtown Savings Bank 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ion Bank Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · Webster Bank Charitable Foundation · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc
- How much does Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc give?
- Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc reported 91 grants totaling $334,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 39 and 74 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Human Services (22%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Team Inc ($70k), United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc ($65k), Lifebridge Community Services Inc ($61k).
- Does Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc, Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc.
- Where is Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc based?
- Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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