· Private foundation
Ridgefield Fresh Air Association
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k12 grants · $36k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| RIDGEFIELD BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $15,000 |
| WILTON FAMILY Y | $5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $5,000 |
| WOODCOCK NATURE CENTER | $5,000 |
| REDDING BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | $5,000 |
| A BETTER CHANCE RIDGEFIELD | $3,000 |
| CARDINAL SHEEHAN CENTER | $3,000 |
| TOWN OF RIDGEFIELD SOCIAL SERVICE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| ABILITY BEYOND | $2,000 |
| MISHKAN ISRAEL SUMMER DAY CAMP | $1,500 |
| FRIENDS OF LACHAT (LITTLE FARMHANDS) | $1,000 |
| DANBURY GRASS ROOTS ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| JERICHO PARTNERSHIP SUMMER CAMP | $1,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $16k) 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.
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.
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.
18 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2025, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD8× · 2017–2025 · $102k · revenue +118%
- WNWOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC8× · 2017–2025 · $24k · revenue +93%
- ABA Better Chance in Ridgefield Inc8× · 2017–2025 · $17k · revenue +63%
Funded once
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
To impact the lives of young people throughout connecticut by providing educational programs that build character, instill life-enhancing values and promote healthy choices through the game of golf.
To enable all young people, especially those who need us the most, to reach their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
The boys & girls club of greater new bedford, inc. is dedicated to providing a stimulating and wholesome environment which promotes social, educational, character and physical development for children and young adults ages 7 - 18 years.…
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
To inspire and enable all young people to realize their full potential productive, responsible and caring citizens.
To inspire and enable all young people, especially those who need us most, to realize their full potential as productive, responsible and caring citizens.
we are driven to do our part to positively impact generations of healthy living through fitness, nutrition and wellness activities. we strive to build productive relationships and influence healthy culture throughout the communities we…
The foundation is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization whose mission is to foster local and regional amateur golf competition with an emphasis on junior golf and to furnish instructional materials and programs designed to improve golfing…
To provide funds to benefit families affected by cancer and to support cancer research and education.
Ccbw promotes enviromental, economic and racial equity through bike riding, repair and education.
To provide preschool education for children ages 2-5.
Our mission is to help people to help themselves by contributing to the more efficient functioning of todays labor market by providing high quality employment and training.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cardinal Shehan Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is Woodcock Nature Center Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 18 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD ↗
- Who funds WOODCOCK NATURE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
- Who funds A Better Chance in Ridgefield Inc ↗
- Who funds ABILITY BEYOND DISABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT BURNS CARE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds HOLE IN THE WALL GANG FUND INC ↗
- Who funds DANBURY GRASSROOTS ACADEMY INC ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Network for Good · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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 Ridgefield Fresh Air Association 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.
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
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.
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