Connecticut · Private foundation
The Bauer Family 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.
- $5.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 33
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,275,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 27 to 37
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Bauer Family Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $262k 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 | 36 | $5.5M | 22% |
| FY2024 | 33 | $2.8M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $4.3M | 18% |
| FY2022 | 32 | $3.0M | 22% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $2.7M | 32% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $6.3M | 31% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $9.5M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 27 | $5.2M | 44% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steans Family Foundation | $5,250,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Norwalk Hospital Foundation | $3,460,000 | 5 | 8% |
| Family & Children's Agency Inc | $2,435,000 | 8 | 8% |
| Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc | $2,410,000 | 8 | 12% |
| Washington University | $1,905,762 | 4 | 0% |
| Waveny Lifecare Network Inc | $1,865,000 | 4 | n/a |
| American Baptist Assembly | $1,480,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Habitat for Humanity of Coastal Fairfield County Inc | $1,350,000 | 5 | 10% |
| American Baptist Foreign Mission Society | $1,218,065 | 5 | n/a |
| St Louis Aquarium at Union Station Foundation | $1,178,879 | 5 | 44% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($11M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Bauer Family Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc · Perakis Foundation James Perakis Trustee · Jeniam Foundation · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · Davatzes Family Foundation Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc
How this is measured
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About The Bauer Family Foundation Inc
- How much does The Bauer Family Foundation Inc give?
- The Bauer Family Foundation Inc reported 36 grants totaling $5,545,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 27 and 37 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bauer Family Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (19%), Health (16%), Education (14%).
- Who are The Bauer Family Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Steans Family Foundation ($5.3M), Norwalk Hospital Foundation ($3.5M), Family & Children's Agency Inc ($2.4M).
- Does The Bauer Family Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bauer Family Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Bauer Family Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, New Canaan Community Foundation Inc, Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust.
- Where is The Bauer Family Foundation Inc based?
- The Bauer Family Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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