· Public charity
The Community Fund of Darien
Promote and support the efforts of various local charitable organizations and new community initiatives
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.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k7 grants · $38k
- $10k–50k31 grants · $703k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $50,000 |
| OPEN DOOR SHELTER | $45,000 |
| CARVER CENTER | $45,000 |
| FAMILY CENTERS | $41,000 |
| PACIFIC HOUSE | $36,000 |
| MID-FAIRFIELD COMMUNITY CARE CENTER | $35,000 |
| PERSON-TO-PERSON | $35,000 |
| BUILDING ONE COMMUNITY | $32,000 |
| INSPIRICA | $30,000 |
| NEW COVENANT CENTER | $28,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER | $28,000 |
| FUTURE FIVE | $27,000 |
| KIDS IN CRISIS | $25,000 |
| FILLING IN THE BLANKS | $25,000 |
| FAMILY AND CHILDRENS AGENCY | $25,000 |
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.
None of your grants could be placed against low income 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 — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 19% of The Community Fund of Darien’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in CT; read by stated purpose it is 12% — more of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
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.
42 repeat relationships — 35 still active in FY2025, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $31k 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
- FCFAMILY CENTERS8× · 2017–2025 · $305k
- ODOPEN DOOR SHELTER8× · 2017–2025 · $284k
- CGCHILD GUIDANCE CENTER OF SOUTHERN CT8× · 2017–2025 · $267k
Funded once
- TOTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $40k · revenue +45%
- CGCHILD GUIDANCE OF MID FAIRFIELDone grant, 2023 · $40k
- PTPERSON TO PERSON INCone grant, 2023 · $38k · revenue +10%
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.
Jewish family services of greenwich (jfs) is a nonprofit social service agency dedicated to strengthening individuals and families in fairfield and new london counties. jfs provides behavioral health counseling, food security programs,…
Wfc is committed to promoting equity and to improving quality of life through services that foster empowerment and independence. our guiding vision: to be the leading agent for positive social change.
Windham regional community council, inc (wrcc) is committed to improving the health and social well-being of the residents of eastern connecticut.
The children's home of poughkeepsie is one of the oldest child welfare agencies in the nation. on january 21, 1847, a group of poughkeepsie women met to form the female guardian society to care for the poor, abandoned and neglected in…
The brien center provides a continuum of care for children, adolescents, adults and families living with significant and persistent mental health and substance use disorders. we are guided by the belief that everyone in berkshire county…
Fca is a community-based behavioral health center that offers innovation, responsive and traditional mental health care and services for children, adolescents, adults and their families.
Argus community's mission is to provide innovative programs which help severely disadvantaged teens and adults to free themselves from poverty and drug abuse and build new lives based on responsibility, work, and hope. argus provides a…
Alternatives, inc was established to provide comprehensive services to individuals/families with special needs to enable them to reach their highest level of independence and integration into the community.
To provide comprehensive community based residential and support services that enable persons with psychiatric and developmental disabilities to live as fully in the community as possible.
Safehouse denver assists adult, children, and youth in reclaiming their right to a life free from domestic violence. the agency provides a broad spectrum of culturally competent, trauma-informed services, including but not limited to,…
Forestdale's mission is to ensure that children have the assets they need to thrive.
Mercy housing and shelter corporation provides housing assistance and supportive services to persons who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless. mercy works to empower its clients to become independent, so they may live and work with…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Liberation Programs Inc and the most unlike its peers is Food Rescue Us Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
Your grantees are a median of 41 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 — 0.0% 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.
20 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. 20 of the 80 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.
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: The Near and Far Association Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · The Tudor Foundation Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Impact 100 Fairfield County · Elizabeth Raymond Ambler Trust · Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Peoples United Community 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 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.
- Abilis Inc — 74% of income from government
- 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
- Family & Children's Agency Inc — 47% of income from government
- Pacific House Inc — 46% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc — 24% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc — 20% 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
- Domestic Violence Crisis Center — 10% of income from government
- Domus Kids Inc — 7% of income from government
- Person to Person Inc — 5% of income from government
- Intempo Organization Inc — 2% of income from government
- All Our Kin Inc — 1% 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.