Connecticut · Private foundation
The Bussmann Family Foundation
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.
- $82k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 18
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $988k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations The Bussmann Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 6% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 17 | $82k | 12% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $82k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $82k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $67k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $67k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 17 | $62k | 0% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $61k | 6% |
| FY2018 | 17 | $61k | 0% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Continuum Inc | $39,000 | 9 | 0% |
| New Reach Inc | $39,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Columbus House Inc | $37,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Albertus Magnus College | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc | $34,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Mercy High School Corp | $33,000 | 9 | n/a |
| All Saints Catholic Academy Inc | $23,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Martin de Porres Academy Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Children's Center | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Youth Continuum Inc | $39,000 | 9 | 0% |
| New Reach Inc | $39,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc | $38,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Columbus House Inc | $37,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Albertus Magnus College | $36,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc | $34,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Mercy High School Corp | $33,000 | 9 | n/a |
| All Saints Catholic Academy Inc | $23,000 | 5 | n/a |
| St Martin de Porres Academy Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Children's Center | $5,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Anne E Fowler Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Yeshiva of New Haven Inc Formerly Filed as the Gan School | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($314k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Bussmann Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: Newalliance Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Louis F & Mary a Tagliatela Family Foundation · United Way of Greater New Haven Inc · Yale University · City Missionary Association of New Haven · Lewis G Schaeneman Jr Foundation Inc · North Haven Rotary Foundation Inc · Yale New Haven Health Services Corporation · Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc · Eder Family Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund
How this is measured
About The Bussmann Family Foundation
- How much does The Bussmann Family Foundation give?
- The Bussmann Family Foundation reported 17 grants totaling $82,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 18 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Bussmann Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), Human Services (19%), Housing & Shelter (13%).
- Who are The Bussmann Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Youth Continuum Inc ($39k), New Reach Inc ($39k), Clifford Beers Community Care Center Inc ($38k).
- Does The Bussmann Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Bussmann Family Foundation 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 Bussmann Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Newalliance Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven, Louis F & Mary a Tagliatela Family Foundation.
- Where is The Bussmann Family Foundation based?
- The Bussmann Family Foundation is based in CT.
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