· Private foundation
The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc
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, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k29 grants · $64k
- $10k–50k1 grant · $25k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY | $25,000 |
| COLUMBIA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| WAVENY CARE CENTER | $5,000 |
| STAMFORD HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| CORNELL COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| NORWALK HOSPITAL | $5,000 |
| NEW CANAAN LIBRARY | $3,000 |
| STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN | $2,500 |
| NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $2,500 |
| NEW CANAAN VOLUNTEER AMBULANCE | $2,500 |
| GET ABOUT INC | $2,500 |
| GLOBAL MEDICAL VOLUNTEERS | $2,000 |
| NEW CANAAN PUBLIC TV | $2,000 |
| ABC HOUSE OF NEW CANAAN | $2,000 |
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 (FY17–25, $22k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 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.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +39% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
32 repeat relationships: 25 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $28k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- WCWAVENY CARE CENTER INC9× · 2017–2025 · $45k · revenue +82%
- CCCORNELL COLLEGE9× · 2017–2025 · $42k · revenue +39%
- TSThe Stamford Hospital9× · 2017–2025 · $31k · revenue +71%
Funded once
- TNTHE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INCone grant, 2025 · $25k · revenue 0%
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCone grant, 2025 · $1k · revenue 0%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2025 · $1k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
To foster an equitable and inclusive community in greater waterbury and litchfield hills by inspiring generosity, supporting organizations, and cultivating effective leaders. the foundation works to address the community's critical issues,…
Our mission is to ensure that every potential client identified by the town of new canaan or the southwestern connecticut commission on aging, or referred to us by family, friends, medical personnel, or church group will be serviced for as…
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
Volunteer fire department
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
We are a warm and vibrant senior community, infused with jewish values, where people live their best lives.
The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.
The norwalk seaport association, inc. offers a cultural, environmental, and historical journey to the norwalk islands. the sheffield island lighthouse and the light keeper's cottage provide a unique historical and educational venue which…
The mission of hebrew community services aligns with the mission of its parent organization, hebrew health care, to provide quality services to senior adults. (see schedule o)as part of an integrated system to assist seniors in the…
Friends of nathaniel witherell is a not-for-profit organization committed to raising funds in support of the nathaniel witherell, the skilled nursing and short term rehabilitation center owned and operated by the town of greenwich, ct and…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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 37 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 WAVENY CARE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CORNELL COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds The Stamford Hospital ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds STAYING PUT IN NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GETABOUT INC ↗
- Who funds THE NEW CANAAN LIBRARY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN EMS INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOLHOUSE APARTMENTS INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS-ON-WHEELS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW CANAAN LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE HARVEY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE 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: Hobbs Family Charitable Trust · Jim and Dede Bartlett Foundation · The Richard & Barbara Whitcomb Foundatio · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Seelert Foundation Inc · Jeniam Foundation · Corbet Family Foundation · The Morris Family Foundation · MLE Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Hilltop Foundation Inc · Half Moon Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The a James Bach and Vona Hopkins Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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