· 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.
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 $10k1 grant · $5k
- $10k–50k9 grants · $115k
- $50k–250k22 grants · $1.8M
- $250k+4 grants · $3.6M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Family & Children's Agency | $1,275,000 |
| Inspirica Inc | $1,020,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000,000 |
| Norwalk Hospital Foundation | $300,000 |
| Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc | $200,000 |
| Green Lake Conference Center | $150,000 |
| Focusing Philanthropy | $120,000 |
| Princeton University | $100,000 |
| Elderhouse Day Care Center | $100,000 |
| International Christian Alliance on Prostitution | $100,000 |
| One World Surgery | $100,000 |
| Habitat For Humanity | $100,000 |
| Goodwin University | $100,000 |
| Circle of Care | $100,000 |
| Tiny Miracles Foundation | $80,000 |
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, $3.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-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 +25% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
53 repeat relationships: 28 still active in FY2025, 25 since wound down; 8 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $300k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- SFSTEANS FAMILY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · $5.3M · revenue +328%
- NHNorwalk Hospital Foundation5× · 2017–2025 · $3.5M · revenue +6%
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY4× · 2017–2023 · $1.9M · revenue +76%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $1.0M
- WLWilton Land Conservation Trustone grant, 2020 · $750k · revenue -78% · 41% of their budget
- VNVISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INCone grant, 2022 · $300k · revenue -1%
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,…
Bristol hospital and health care group is committed to enhancing the health and well-being of our community. we will provide safe, quality care and services to our patients through our continuum of services and health promotion. we will…
The foundation facilitates equitable access to healthcare services for the greater waterbury community. our founding principles are to provide for the healthcare needs (including medical equipment and expenses) of the 13-town greater…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
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…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
Whitney center's mission, excellence in senior living, is grounded in the principal that all elders, regardless of physical or cognitive limitation, have the right to engage in life and seek fulfillment. our ideals of self-determination,…
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.
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
65 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. 65 of the 110 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 STEANS FAMILY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Norwalk Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC ↗
- Who funds STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN INC ↗
- Who funds WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS AQUARIUM AT UNION STATION FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds INSPIRICA INC ↗
- Who funds GOODWIN UNIVERSITY INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICARES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds The Trustees of Princeton University ↗
- Who funds Wilton Land Conservation Trust ↗
- Who funds FOCUSING PHILANTHROPY INC ↗
- Who funds THE CARVER INC ↗
- Who funds CIRCLE OF CARE FOR FAMILIES OF CHILDREN WITH CANCER INC ↗
- Who funds SUMMER THEATRE OF NEW CANAAN INC ↗
- Who funds PIVOT MINISTRIES INC ↗
- Who funds The Phoenix Pact Fund ↗
- Who funds Habitat for Humanity of Collier County Inc ↗
- Who funds SAINT JOSEPH PARENTING CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds VISITING NURSE & HOSPICE OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE TINY MIRACLES FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds THE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF TAMPA BAY INC ↗
- Who funds LIBERATION PROGRAMS INC ↗
- Who funds NORWALK ACTS INC ↗
- Who funds VOICES FOR CHILDREN ↗
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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Bauer Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bauer Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Kennedy Collective Inc: 79% of income from government
- Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc: 51% of income from government
- Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
- Lockwood-Mathews Mansion Museum of Norwalk Inc: 43% of income from government
- Martha's Vineyard Community Foundation Inc: 34% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc: 24% of income from government
- The Carver Inc: 16% of income from government
- Goodwin University Inc: 14% of income from government
- The Trustees of Princeton University: 11% of income from government
- Positive Directions-the Center for Prevention & Counseling Inc: 11% of income from government
- Norwalk Acts Inc: 6% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
- Stepping Stones Museum for Children Inc: 1% of income from government
- Summer Theatre of New Canaan Inc: 1% of income from government
- Americares Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Youth Haven Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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