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· Public charity
THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN
Promote & support the efforts of various local charitable organizations & new community initiatives
$790k
Granted FY2025
39
Grants
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Communities
$50k
Largest
01What you fund
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What you funded, over time
By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).
A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 94% of THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.
02beneath the categories
Past the labels — and the year it shifted
Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.
…and in their own words, year by year
2019
youth successself-sufficiencybasic
2020
youth successself-sufficiencybasic
2021
awardchildren'sstamfordchild guidance
2022
awardkidschild guidance
2023
awardchildrenschild guidance
2025
norwalkawardhorizonsstamford
Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.
03FY2025 · 39 grants
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $703k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
$16,000
Median grant
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States reached
$3.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
- TEEN TALK$50,000
- CARVER CENTER$45,000
- OPEN DOOR SHELTER$45,000
- FAMILY CENTERS$41,000
- PACIFIC HOUSE$36,000
- PERSON-TO-PERSON$35,000
- MID-FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CARE CENTER$35,000
- BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY$32,000
- INSPIRICA$30,000
- DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER$28,000
- NEW COVENANT CENTER$28,000
- FUTURE FIVE$27,000
- FAMILY AND CHILDRENS AGENCY$25,000
- KIDS IN CRISIS$25,000
- FILLING IN THE BLANKS$25,000
02The need
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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.
None of your grants could be placed against cost of living need for this view.
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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
03Your edge
repeat funding
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.
84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$3.9M · 36 repeat orgs$725k to everyone else
36 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Re-uppedFunded once
Organizations
36
28
Total granted
$3.9M
$566k
Still filing today
0%
61%
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $159k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesHousing & ShelterHealthPhilanthropyEducationOther
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
- FCFAMILY CENTERS6× · 2018–2025 · $230k
- ODOPEN DOOR SHELTER6× · 2018–2025 · $208k
- PPERSON-TO-PERSON6× · 2018–2025 · $207k
Funded once
- CGCHILD GUIDANCE OF MID FAIRFIELDone grant, 2023 · $40k
- ODOPEN DOOR SHELTERone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue -20%
- PPERSON-TO-PERSONone grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
04Your field
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.
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Family & Children Services Inc
Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive program of critical human services.
Human Services
2
Family Crisis Center Inc
The family crisis center provides intervention and advocacy for victims of sexual assault and domestic violence. this is done with counselors, court advocates and 24 hour shelter for victims and their children.
Human Services
3
Mid-Fairfield Child Guidance Center Inc
Established in 1956, the mid-fairfield child guidance center, inc. (mid-fairfield) serves as the community safety net for thousands of families in the greater norwalk region who cannot afford private behavioral health services for their…
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4
Liberty Community Services
Liberty community services, inc., founded in 1987, strives to end homelessness in greater new haven. we offer services to people who live with hiv/aids, mental illness, and addiction and we help people achieve permanent housing in the…
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5
Family and Children's Service Inc
Family and children's service provides compassionate care, intervention and education to support people during challenging times in their lives
Human Services
6
Friends of Laurel House Inc
Friends of laurel house, inc was formed as a supporting organization to laurel house, inc. laurel house activities include psychosocial rehabilitation, supportive housing and, employment placement and educational support programs.
Health
7
United Services Inc
United services mission is to provide an effective response to the youth, family, and adult social and behavioral health needs in the community. united services is the most comprehensive private, non-profit center in connecticut providing…
Human Services
8
Long Island Crisis Center Inc
To provide free, high quality, confidential and non-judgmental services and programs to support and empower long islanders at critical times in their lives.
Health
9
Community Guidance Clinic for
Community guidance clinic for central connecticut, an established and trusted community resource, provides comprehensive evidence-based behavioral health services that promote wellness and resilience. our collaborative, family-focused…
Human Services
10
Children's Advocacy Center of Suffolk
To unite public, private and community partners to promote safety, healing and justice for child victims and their families. the organization coordinates a multidisciplinary team of police, prosecutors,social workers, advocates, medical…
Crime & Legal
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Family Service Inc
Family & individual counseling
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Families in Crisis
Families in crisis, inc. houses, supports and empowers individuals affected by family violence, sexual assault, and homelessness.
Human Services
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Open Door Shelter Inc and the most unlike its peers is Inspirica Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network
17 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.
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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
14/17
Grew since you first funded
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Other$4,334,910Human Services$102,000Housing & Shelter$71,000Philanthropy$38,000Health$35,000Education$15,000
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.
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.
Fairfield County's Community FoundationCT28.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →
Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Tudor Foundation Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · United Way of Greenwich Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · Leon N Lapine Residuary Trust · Impact 100 Fairfield County · Brothers Brook 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 organisation THE COMMUNITY FUND OF DARIEN 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.
2024
’20’21’22’23’24
- Laurel House Inc — 68% of income from government
- Saint Joseph Parenting Center Inc — 51% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc — 49% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Boys & Girls Club of Stamford Inc — 17% of income from government
- The Open Door Shelter Inc — 14% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
3get no government money at all
2rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–24
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. 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.
05Through Plinth
Through Plinth
Your grantmaking, live and operational
This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY.
Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk
Financial management
low risk
~8 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 7 filed years.
Track record & reputation
low risk
7 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up 4.1× since.
Legal standing
low risk
US 501(c)(3); EIN 275024317 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.
Governance
Live in Plinth
Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.
Compliance & sanctions
Live in Plinth
OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.
Program capacity
Live in Plinth
Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.
Live · Plinth’s real DD engine
Run the actual assessment on BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY, cold from public data.
Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.
Post-award monitoring · continuous checks
- On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 8 months of cash on hand.
- On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
- On trackReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 1% of their budget — diversified.
- Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.
What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.
Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing
Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.
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Find your warmest path to The Community Fund of Darien through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.
Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.
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funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
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