Connecticut · Private foundation
Ridgefield Fresh Air Association
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $51k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 17
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $368k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations Ridgefield Fresh Air Association funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 13 | $51k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $63k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $60k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $65k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $45k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $35k | 6% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $40k | 13% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $36k | 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Boys & Girls Club of Ridgefield | $101,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Woodcock Nature Center Inc | $24,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Cardinal Shehan Center Inc | $23,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fresh Air Fund | $20,000 | 7 | 0% |
| A Better Chance in Ridgefield Inc | $17,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Ability Beyond Disability Inc | $15,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Connecticut Burns Care Foundation Inc | $14,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc | $13,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Danbury Grassroots Academy Inc | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($157k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Ridgefield Fresh Air Association 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 · 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
How this is measured
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About Ridgefield Fresh Air Association
- How much does Ridgefield Fresh Air Association give?
- Ridgefield Fresh Air Association reported 13 grants totaling $50,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 17 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Ridgefield Fresh Air Association fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Youth Development (44%), Recreation & Sports (41%), Health (8%).
- Who are Ridgefield Fresh Air Association's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Boys & Girls Club of Ridgefield ($102k), Woodcock Nature Center Inc ($24k), Cardinal Shehan Center Inc ($23k).
- Does Ridgefield Fresh Air Association fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ridgefield Fresh Air Association accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ridgefield Fresh Air Association?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Network for Good, The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Ridgefield Fresh Air Association based?
- Ridgefield Fresh Air Association is based in CT.
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