· Public charity
The Community Fund of Darien
Promote and support the efforts of various local charitable organizations and new community initiatives
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
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 |
| Individual grant recipient | $35,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $32,000 |
| INSPIRICA | $30,000 |
| DOMESTIC VIOLENCE CRISIS CENTER | $28,000 |
| NEW COVENANT CENTER | $28,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $27,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $25,000 |
| FAMILY AND CHILDRENS AGENCY | $25,000 |
| FILLING IN THE BLANKS | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
None of its grants could be placed against low income need for this view.
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 19% of The Community Fund of Darien’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 10% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 12%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
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
How this is measured
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%
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rushford Center, Inc., is dedicated to meeting the substance abuse and mental health needs of children, adults and families. Working cooperatively with our Hartford HealthCare network partners and others who share our goals, Rushford…
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…
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.
Family & children services strengthens the safety and well being of children, individuals and families; accomplished by providing a comprehensive array of critical human services.
The child center of ny strengthens children and families with skills, opportunities, and emotional support to build healthy, successful lives.
How this is measured
20 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. 20 of the 80 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Community Fund of Darien funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Community Fund of Darien. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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