· Private foundation
The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inc
The mission of this organization is to provide support by contributing in community programs in need of social, financial, educational, healthcare & emergency relief
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 22 grants below total $357,111 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $456,502 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $99,391 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2020
- Under $10k6 grants · $42k
- $10k–50k14 grants · $200k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BPT Public Library | $60,000 |
| RYASAP | $55,061 |
| School Volunteer Assoc of Bpt | $40,000 |
| The Rotary Foundation | $24,150 |
| Council of Churches of Greater Bpt | $15,000 |
| BPT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS | $15,000 |
| The Bridge Academy Charter School | $15,000 |
| The Rotary Foundation | $10,900 |
| Community Hands in Action | $10,000 |
| Groundwork of Bpt | $10,000 |
| Urban Impact on Black Rock | $10,000 |
| Child & Family Guidance Center | $10,000 |
| Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc | $10,000 |
| Cardinal Shehan Center | $10,000 |
| Hang Time Inc | $10,000 |
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 (FY17–20, $233k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-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.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2020, 4 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (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 FY2020, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k 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
- CCCATALYST CT INC2× · 2019–2020 · $118k · revenue +14%
- CCCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC4× · 2017–2020 · $74k · revenue +16%
- BOBRIDGEPORT ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH SPORTS INC2× · 2017–2018 · $39k · revenue +98%
Funded once
- NBNEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INCone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +10%
- NBNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue ×15
- BDBRIDGEPORT DIOCESAN SCHOOLS CORPORATIONone grant, 2017 · $21k
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.
The university promotes academic excellence, personal responsibility and commitment to service. distinctive curricula in an international, culturally diverse supportive learning environment prepare graduates for life and leadership in an…
Great oaks charter school is a public school providing high-dosage tutoring, data-driven learning strategies & extra-curricular opportunities to students in grades 6-12 to ensure success in the career or college of their choice. great oaks…
Bridgeport International Academy is a private, college preparatory high school committed to academic excellence, moral development, global citizenship, cultural diversity, and the advancement of international, intercultural, and…
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
The mission of achievement first bridgeport academy, inc. is to strengthen the academic and character skills needed for all students to excel in top-tier colleges, to achieve success in a competitive world and to serve as the next…
Brooklyn bridge park corporation's mission, d/b/a brooklyn bridge park ("bbp") mission is to provide an exceptional public space that connects people, nature, and the waterfront, through inclusive, innovative, and sustainable management…
The brookline center for community mental health provides groundbreaking mental health services rooted in meaningful innovation and compassionate care. in response to today's mental health landscape and the ongoing mental health crisis,…
Students are prepared to meet the needs of an ever changing technological and global society. we use the latest technology in our classrooms as an integral part of its curriculum approach. this approach is based on the latest research in…
Excellence community schools prepares young people in new york city and stamford to compete for admission to and succeed in top public, private and parochial high schools by cultivating their intellectual, artistic, social, emotional, and…
Founded in 1986, building neighborhoods together's (bnt) mission is to end housing insecurity, income inequality, and homelessness by creating safe, affordable housing, and providing comprehensive housing and financial counseling services…
To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.
Cold spring school challenges children to become self-reliant, curious and resourceful problem solvers with the academic and social skills to engage constructively and ethically in our diverse, changing world.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc and the most unlike its peers is Off the Streets Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 39 years old; the field is 19. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 19% startups (under 5 years old) — 0% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 3% lost their exemption, against 11% 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.
31 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. 31 of the 38 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 CATALYST CT INC ↗
- Who funds LIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds SCHOOL VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH SPORTS INC ↗
- Who funds MERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC ↗
- Who funds CARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds GROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC ↗
- Who funds NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC ↗
- Who funds THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds URBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds THE BARNUM MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC ↗
- Who funds WAKEMAN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN ↗
- Who funds CITY LIGHTS & COMPANY ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC ↗
- Who funds HALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds THE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC ↗
- Who funds Fairfield University ↗
- Who funds SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds OFF THE STREETS INC ↗
- Who funds VILLAGE INITIATIVE PROJECT 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 · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Inner-City Foundation for Charity & Education Inc · Peoples United Community Foundation · Young Mens Christian Association of Westport/Weston Ct Inc · Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundation · Tauck Family Foundation · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Elizabeth M Pfriem Foundation · The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Synchrony Foundation
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 Bridgeport Rotary Club 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.
- The Barnum Museum Foundation Inc — 100% of income from government
- Groundwork Bridgeport Inc — 100% of income from government
- The Child and Family Guidance Center Inc — 86% of income from government
- The Center for Family Justice Inc — 49% of income from government
- Catalyst Ct Inc — 37% of income from government
- Village Initiative Project Inc — 37% of income from government
- Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc — 37% of income from government
- Lifebridge Community Services Inc — 32% of income from government
- Hall Neighborhood House Inc — 27% of income from government
- Nourish Bridgeport Inc — 19% of income from government
- The Discovery Museum Inc — 15% of income from government
- Central Connecticut Coast Young Men's Christian Association Inc — 14% of income from government
- City Lights & Company — 9% of income from government
- Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc — 4% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc — 4% of income from government
- Sacred Heart University Incorporated — 1% of income from government
- Fairfield University — 1% of income from government
- Bridgeport Hospital — 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.