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Stratfield Fund

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.

$148k
Granted FY2025still arriving
7
Grants FY2025still arriving
4
States reached
$50k
Largest
01What it funds
0198% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

International$125kReligion$121kHealth$69kRecreation & Sports$60kHousing & Shelter$50kPublic Safety & Disaster$45kArts & Culture$15kHuman Services$15kOther$0
02FY2025 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $3k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $45k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $100k
$2,500
Median grant
4
States reached
$636k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AMERICARES$50,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND$50,000
HEART RIVER CENTER$45,000
INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES$2,500
MOUNT ST VINCENT$500
ARAPAHOE LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION$200
TEMPLE SINAI$200
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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Its human-services grants (FY20–25, $15k) land where the poverty rate runs at 8%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%INTEGRATED FAMILY COMMUNITY SERVICES: $3k → 8%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$306k · 11 repeat orgs$174k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +9% since the first grant, against +8% for those funded once.

11 repeat relationships: 4 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
11

Total granted

$306k
$174k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+8%

Still filing today

64%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $700 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthArts & CultureReligionRecreation & SportsInternationalPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • MR
    MILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC
    2× · 2021–2024 · $60k · revenue +112%
  • IF
    Integrated Family Community Services
    6× · 2020–2025 · $15k · revenue +97%
  • MS
    MOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC
    7× · 2018–2024 · $3k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SH
    STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $58k
  • RH
    RIVER HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · $50k
  • SF
    STAMFORD FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATIONS INC
    one grant, 2021 · $20k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
International Myeloma Foundation

Dedicated to improving the quality of life of myeloma patients while working toward prevention and a cure.

Unclassified
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
The Jewish Museum

The mission of the jewish museum is to collect, preserve, exhibit and interpret art and jewish culture. see schedule o for more information.

Arts & Culture
4
Bar Ilan University in Israel Inc

Biu produces students who excel in the sciences, humanities, law, engineering, business & the arts.

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5
Marian Friedman Greenblatt Education Fund Inc
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6
Abrahamic Reunion Inc

The abrahamic reunion works to build sustainable peace with diverse faith communities in the holy land. we foster harmony by exploring common abrahamic values in order to create deep and lasting connections between people.

International
7
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc

The mission of dfci is to provide expert, compassionate, and equitable care to children, adults, and their families, while advancing the understanding, diagnosis, treatment, cure, and prevention of cancer and related diseases. we train new…

Health
8
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
9
Hadassah the Women's Zionist Org of America Inc

Hadassah, the women's zionist organization of america, inc., a new york not-for-profit corporation ("hwzoa") enhances the health and lives of people in israel, the united states and worldwide through education, advocacy, women's…

Community Improvement
10
New York Genome Center Inc

Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.

Health
11
Food Allergy Science Initiative Inc

To accelerate the development of breakthrough discoveries that will transform the lives of people living with food allergies.

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12
MRIGlobal

To improve the lives of people through innovative scientific and engineering research.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Uja Federation of Greenwich Inc; the most unlike its peers is Heart River 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.
04the grantee network

14 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. 14 of the 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

STAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATION: $58,463 · OtherSTAMFORD HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONRIVER HOUSE: $50,000 · OtherRIVER HOUSESTAMFORD EMS INC: $25,200 · OtherSTAMFORD EMS INCSTAMFORD FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATIONS INC: $20,000 · OtherSTAMFORD FIREFIGHTERS BURN FOUNDATIONS IN…AVON MOVIE THEATRE: $10,000 · Other+13 more: $32,237 · Other+13 moreAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 · InternationalAMERICARES FOUNDATION INCJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $50,000 · InternationalJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KERE…HEART RIVER CENTER INC: $110,000 · ReligionHEART RIVER CENTER INCMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC: $60,000 · Recreation & SportsMILL RIVER C…Integrated Family Community Services: $15,000 · Human ServicesONE TREE PLANTED INC: $14,000 · PhilanthropyTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $10,100 · Food & Nutrition
Other$195,900International$125,000Religion$110,000Recreation & Sports$60,000Human Services$15,000Philanthropy$14,000Food & Nutrition$10,100

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetHEART RIVER CENTER INC: $110,000 over 4y, 44% of budgetAMERICARES FOUNDATION INC: $75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMILL RIVER COLLABORATIVE INC: $60,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND (KEREN KAYEMETH LEISRAEL) INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIntegrated Family Community Services: $15,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FOOD BANK OF LOWER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $10,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJEWISH EDUCATION IN MEDIA INC DBA JBS JEWISH BROADCASTING SERVICE: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUJA FEDERATION OF GREENWICH INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MULTIPLE MYELOMA RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ST VINCENT HOME INC: $3,050 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCaringBridge: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetARAPAHOE LIBRARY FRIENDS FOUNDATION INC: $1,600 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCE MUSEUM INC: $65 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Colorado Gives FoundationCO12.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Colorado Gives Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Stratfield Fund funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Stratfield Fund. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 0%
  • Mill River Collaborative Inc: 100% of income from government
  • Bruce Museum Inc: 0% of income from government
  • Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
4report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Stratfield Fund?

Find your warmest path to Stratfield Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 25 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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