· Private foundation
The Barden Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k56 grants · $174k
- $10k–50k13 grants · $200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESTERN CT STATE UNIVERSITY | $26,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COASTAL & WESTERN CT | $25,000 |
| BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC | $24,000 |
| DANBURY HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FUND | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COASTAL & WESTERN CT | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST CT | $15,000 |
| FISH | $14,000 |
| REGIONAL HOSPICE | $14,000 |
| WINSTED AREA CHILD CARE CENTER INC | $12,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BEARDSLEY LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - CT | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| ABILITY BEYOND | $7,000 |
| HOUSATONIC COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION - MFG ALLIANCE | $6,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $233k) 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 your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
80 repeat relationships — 50 still active in FY2025, 30 since wound down; 11 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, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $77k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). 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
- UWUNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC5× · 2020–2024 · $151k · revenue +25%
- BHBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC6× · 2020–2025 · $144k · revenue +7%
- WAWinsted Area Child Care Center Inc6× · 2020–2025 · $68k · revenue +5%
Funded once
- CFCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $12k · revenue +97%
- CFCT FOOD SHAREone grant, 2022 · $10k
- NUNATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND GALWAY ON BEHALF OF ARIAN DOSTone grant, 2021 · $5k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
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…
United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…
To provide quality, affordable health care to residents of eastern connecticut.
Mhc partners with individuals, their families, and surrounding communities to create environments that support long-term health and wellness.
Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
United way of connecticut is proud to be a trusted and vital resource for help and information about what the people of connecticut need. we respond to requests for food, housing, health care, child care, child development resources,…
To improve the health and well-being of our community by providing high quality, coordinated health and support services, accessible to all.
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Americares Free Clinics Inc and the most unlike its peers is Prime Time House Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 20. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 18% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 10% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
24 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 24 of the 125 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Winsted Area Child Care Center Inc ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ABILITY BEYOND DISABILITY INC ↗
- Who funds NAUGATUCK VALLEY COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FREE CLINICS INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds ANNS PLACE INC ↗
- Who funds MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Newtown Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Barden Foundation Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.
- Prime Time House Inc — 42% of income from government
- Klein Memorial Auditorium Foundationinc — 36% of income from government
- Winsted Area Child Care Center Inc — 34% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc — 12% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 5% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc — 4% of income from government
- Mcgivney Community Center Inc — 2% of income from government
- Drew University — 0% of income from government
- Springfield College — 0% of income from government
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 your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not 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 12–24 months.
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