· Private foundation
The Barden Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| UNITED WAY OF NORTHWEST CT | $15,000 |
| DANBURY HOSPITAL DEVELOPMENT FUND | $15,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF COASTAL & WESTERN CT | $15,000 |
| REGIONAL HOSPICE | $14,000 |
| FISH | $14,000 |
| WINSTED AREA CHILD CARE CENTER INC | $12,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS - CT | $10,000 |
| AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY | $10,000 |
| BEARDSLEY LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| ABILITY BEYOND | $7,000 |
| NAUGATUCK COMMUNITY COLLEGE FOUNDATION | $6,000 |
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 (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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
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 +28% since the first grant, against +26% for those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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 +43%
- 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
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.
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.
How this is measured
24 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. 24 of the 125 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 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 MCGIVNEY COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ANNS PLACE 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Barden Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Barden Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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