Connecticut · Private foundation
Southport Area Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $157k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 8
- Grants FY2025
- 9
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $27,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $39,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 9 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $20k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations Southport Area Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 8 | $157k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 9 | $163k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 10 | $148k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $95k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $121k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $80k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 11 | $81k | 9% |
| FY2018 | 9 | $91k | 44% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Southport School Inc | $239,908 | 8 | 1% |
| Pequot Library Association | $129,597 | 8 | 2% |
| Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp | $39,750 | 3 | 18% |
| Southport Congregational Church | $29,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Southport Volunteer Fire Department | $19,850 | 2 | n/a |
| Fairfield Historical Society Dba Fairfield Museum | $11,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Friends of Southport Park Inc | $7,000 | 5 | 67% |
| Aspetuck Land Trust | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Southport Conservancy Inc | $3,343 | 3 | 4% |
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($528k), not named here.
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: Cannupa Foundation · The Inglesea Charitable Trust · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation · The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · Grace Jones Richardson Testamentary Trust C/O Piedmont Trust Co · Ge Aerospace Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program
How this is measured
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About Southport Area Fund
- How much does Southport Area Fund give?
- Southport Area Fund reported 8 grants totaling $156,968 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Southport Area Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (29%), Education (25%), Arts & Culture (17%).
- Who are Southport Area Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Southport School Inc ($240k), Pequot Library Association ($130k), Wakeman Boys and Girls Club Corp ($40k).
- Does Southport Area Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Southport Area Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Southport Area Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cannupa Foundation, The Inglesea Charitable Trust, Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is Southport Area Fund based?
- Southport Area Fund is based in CT.
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