· Private foundation
Rocky Nook Foundation
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, FY2021 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k10 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NANTUCKET BEHAVIORAL HEALTH CENTER | $10,001 |
| NEW CANAAN LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| NEW YORK CITY BALLET | $10,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | $10,000 |
| GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY | $10,000 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $7,500 |
| OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $7,500 |
| FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH OF NEW CANAAN | $7,500 |
| CROSSING THRESHOLDS | $5,000 |
| STANFORD FUND | $5,000 |
| YOUTH ORCHESTRA WITHOUT BORDERS | $5,000 |
| STANFORD UNIVERSITY | $5,000 |
| US SQUASH | $5,000 |
| CITY SQUASH | $1,500 |
| MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN | $1,000 |
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 (FY22–22, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 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
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
12 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 1 since wound down; 2 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, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY4× · 2022–2025 · $260k · revenue +16%- NYNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC3× · 2023–2025 · $20k · revenue +32%
- NCNew Canaan Nature Center Association Inc2× · 2023–2024 · $2k · revenue +4%
Funded once
- UNUSS NANTUCKET COMMISSIONING COMMITTEEone grant, 2023 · $10k
- PAPOETS AND WRITERS INCone grant, 2023 · $3k · revenue +7%
- CACHILD ADVOCATES OF SW CT INCone grant, 2022 · $3k
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.
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Georgian court university (gcu), provides a comprehensive liberal arts education and is open to students of all faiths, delivers a curriculum that promotes scholarship, service, and personal development.
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How this is measured
15 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. 15 of the 21 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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
- Who funds THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF THE LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH ORCHESTRA WITHOUT BORDERS INC ↗
- Who funds OHIO WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds City Squash Inc ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds CROSSING THRESHOLDS INC ↗
- Who funds POETS AND WRITERS INC ↗
- Who funds GREAT HARBOR YACHT CLUB INC ↗
- Who funds New Canaan Nature Center Association Inc ↗
- Who funds SQUASH HAVEN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN CARES INC ↗
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: O'Connor Family Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rocky Nook Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rocky Nook Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Squash Haven Inc: 4% of income from government
How this is measured
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