Connecticut · Private foundation
The Barden Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $374k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 69
- Grants FY2025
- 57
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $26,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 56 to 74
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $4.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 16% of the organizations The Barden Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $24k 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 | 61 | $374k | 18% |
| FY2024 | 57 | $348k | 16% |
| FY2023 | 56 | $296k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 70 | $360k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $358k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 74 | $341k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc | $151,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc | $144,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Winsted Area Child Care Center Inc | $68,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc | $61,500 | 6 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| United Way of Coastal Fairfield County Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ability Beyond Disability Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Naugatuck Valley Community College Foundation Inc | $31,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Americares Free Clinics Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc | $28,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 101 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Barden Foundation Inc supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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: 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
How this is measured
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About The Barden Foundation Inc
- How much does The Barden Foundation Inc give?
- The Barden Foundation Inc reported 69 grants totaling $374,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 56 and 74 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Barden Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (38%), Health (31%), Philanthropy (9%).
- Who are The Barden Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc ($151k), Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc ($144k), Winsted Area Child Care Center Inc ($68k).
- Does The Barden Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Barden Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Barden Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc, Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Barden Foundation Inc based?
- The Barden Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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