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The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inc at a glanceAlso receives grants: funding profile →

· 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

$457k
Granted FY2020
22
Grants FY2020
2
States reached
$60k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0194% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Education$287kHuman Services$186kYouth Development$178kHealth$162kFood & Nutrition$59kInternational$39kArts & Culture$33kHousing & Shelter$31kOther$0
02FY2020 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

How this is measured
The 22 grants below total $357,111, the rows itemized in this filing. The $456,502 headline is the total grant expense on the return; the other $99,391 is giving the schedule does not break out (grants under the $5,000 itemization floor, grants to individuals, grants on other schedules). Every figure below describes the itemized rows only.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under $10k6 grants · $42k
  • $10k–50k14 grants · $200k
  • $50k–250k2 grants · $115k
$10,000
Median grant
2
States reached
$3.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
Hang Time Inc$10,000
Cardinal Shehan Center$10,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%Alpha Community Services YMCA: $25k → 9%Central CT Coast YMCA: $18k → 9%Child & Family Guidance Center: $10k → 9%Child & Family Guidance Center: $10k → 9%CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $10k → 9%CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE: $10k → 9%LifeBridge Community Services: $63k → 9%LifeBridge Community Services: $25k → 9%BPT Rescue Mission: $8k → 9%LifeBridge Community Services: $10k → 9%Alpha Community Service YMCA: $8k → 9%Hall Neighborhood House: $8k → 9%Ralphola Taylor Community Center: $10k → 9%Off the Streets: $6k → 9%Council of Churches of Bpt: $13k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$676k · 16 repeat orgs$292k to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

$676k
$188k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+48%

Still filing today

75%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $104k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20
Human ServicesEducationArts & CultureYouth DevelopmentHousing & ShelterReligionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • CC
    CATALYST CT INC
    2× · 2019–2020 · $118k · revenue +14%
  • CC
    CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC
    4× · 2017–2020 · $74k · revenue +16%
  • BO
    BRIDGEPORT ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH SPORTS INC
    2× · 2017–2018 · $39k · revenue +98%

Funded once

  • NB
    NOURISH BRIDGEPORT INCgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue ×15
  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue +10%
  • BD
    BRIDGEPORT DIOCESAN SCHOOLS CORPORATION
    one grant, 2017 · $21k
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.

04Its field

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.

1
The University of Bridgeport Inc

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…

Education
2
Great Oaks Charter School - Bridgeport

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…

Education
3
Bridgeport International Academy Inc

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…

Education
4
Brunswick School Inc

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…

Education
5
Achievement First Bridgeport Academy Inc

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…

Education
6
Brooklyn Bridge Park Corporation

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…

Recreation & Sports
7
Brookline Community Mental Health Center Inc Dba the Brookline Center

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,…

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8
Brooklyn Charter School

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…

Education
9
Bronx Charter School for Excellence

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…

Education
10
Bridgeport Neighborhood Trust

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…

Housing & Shelter
11
Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc

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.

Health
12
Cold Spring School Inc

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.

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lifebridge Community Services Inc; 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.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 38 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/31
Grantees still filing
24/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

CATALYST CT INC: $117,561 · OtherCATALYST CT INCBPT Public Library: $60,000 · OtherBPT Public LibrarySCHOOL VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $53,500 · OtherSCHOOL VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGEPORT INCCOUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF GREATER BRIDGEPORT INC: $47,850 · OtherCOUNCIL OF CHURCHES OF GREATER BRIDGEPORT INCBRIDGEPORT ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH SPORTS INC: $39,450 · OtherBRIDGEPORT ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH SPORTS INCCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC: $30,000 · OtherCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INCBRIDGEPORT DIOCESAN SCHOOLS CORPORATION: $21,162 · OtherTHE CIRCLE OF HANDS FOUNDATION INC: $20,000 · OtherCHAMP COMMUNITY HANDS IN ACTION MENTORING PROGAM INC: $17,500 · OtherNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC: $25,000 · OtherURBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED: $17,500 · Other+6 more: $57,700 · Other+6 moreLIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $97,500 · Human ServicesLIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVI…CENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $74,311 · Human ServicesCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST …THE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDA…THE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $20,000 · Human ServicesTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUST…+3 more: $21,000 · Human Services+3 moreMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $39,000 · EducationMERCY LEARNI…THE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $25,000 · EducationTHE BRIDGE A…NEW BEGINNINGS FAMILY ACADEMY INC: $25,000 · EducationNEW BEGINNIN…Fairfield University: $7,000 · EducationFairfield Un…VILLAGE INITIATIVE PROJECT INC: $6,000 · EducationVILLAGE INIT…SACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $6,000 · EducationSACRED HEART…THE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $45,700 · InternationalJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF GREATER FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $17,500 · InternationalBRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC: $33,000 · Youth DevelopmentWAKEMAN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE BARNUM MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 · Arts & CultureCITY LIGHTS & COMPANY: $10,000 · Arts & CultureTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $7,500 · Arts & CultureGROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC: $26,150 · Community Improvement
Other$507,223Human Services$232,811Education$108,000International$63,200Youth Development$44,000Arts & Culture$32,500Community Improvement$26,150

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetCATALYST CT INC: $117,561 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLIFEBRIDGE COMMUNITY SERVICES INC: $97,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAL CONNECTICUT COAST YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION INC: $74,311 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSCHOOL VOLUNTEER ASSOCIATION OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $53,500 over 2y, 22% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $45,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBRIDGEPORT ORGANIZATION FOR YOUTH SPORTS INC: $39,450 over 2y, 10% of budgetMERCY LEARNING CENTER OF BRIDGEPORT INC: $39,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGEPORT CARIBE YOUTH LEADERS INC: $33,000 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetCARDINAL SHEHAN CENTER INC: $30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetGROUNDWORK BRIDGEPORT INC: $26,150 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetNOURISH BRIDGEPORT INC: $25,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTHE BRIDGE ACADEMY INC: $25,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILD AND FAMILY GUIDANCE CENTER INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR FAMILY JUSTICE INC: $20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetURBAN IMPACT OF BLACK ROCK INCORPORATED: $17,500 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetTHE BARNUM MUSEUM FOUNDATION INC: $15,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetBRIDGEPORT PUBLIC EDUCATION FUND INC: $12,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCONNECTICUT INSTITUTE FOR REFUGEES AND IMMIGRANTS INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWAKEMAN MEMORIAL ASSOCIATION INC: $11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF SOUTHWESTERN: $10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBRIDGEPORT HOSPITAL: $7,700 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE DISCOVERY MUSEUM INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBRIDGEPORT RESCUE MISSION INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHALL NEIGHBORHOOD HOUSE INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFairfield University: $7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVILLAGE INITIATIVE PROJECT INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetOFF THE STREETS INC: $6,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetSACRED HEART UNIVERSITY INCORPORATED: $6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…The Near and Far Asso…The Inner-City Founda…Peoples United Commun…Young Mens Christian …Ernest and Joan Trefz…Tauck Family Foundati…The Pitney Bowes Foun…Elizabeth M Pfriem Fo…The Aiello Charitable…William Caspar Graust…Synchrony Foundation
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT48.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

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’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 30%2%6%14%25%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 27%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
3rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 38 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2020, released 2020. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2025) is on record and reports $339k of grant expense, but none of it to a named recipient. On a Form 990 that can mean grants abroad, filed by region only (Schedule F), grants under $5,000, which are not itemized, or a schedule referenced as an attachment the e-file does not carry. The figures above are therefore from FY2020, the most recent year this funder named its grantees.

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