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The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd

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.

$36k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2025
17
Organizations funded FY2024
0%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$2,000
Largest grant, FY2025
$3,000
Organizations funded a year
17 to 22
FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
1
Total assets, FY2025
$700k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 0% of the organizations The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Human ServicesYouth DevelopmentHealthOther
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.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving18$36k6%
FY202417$33k0%
FY202317$33k6%
FY202221$36k5%
FY202122$45k14%
FY202019$30k0%
FY201919$30k0%
FY201819$33k5%
99% classified

What it funded, over time

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

Health$102kEducation$66kHuman Services$57kHousing & Shelter$27kArts & Culture$19kPublic Safety & Disaster$14kYouth Development$12kReligion$10kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 16 grantees
All grantees of The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Sacred Heart University Incorporated$29,00090%
Fairfield University$23,00090%
Greater Bridgeport Symphony Society Inc$19,00091%
Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc$17,50090%
Mikey's Way Foundation Inc$17,00091%
Bradys Smile$13,50075%
Catholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc$12,50050%
The Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation Inc$11,50055%
St Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc$10,50060%
Mercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc$10,50090%
The Tiny Miracles Foundation Inc$10,50090%
Daughters of the Holy Spirit Inc$10,0009n/a
Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit$9,00040%
Blood Cancer United Inc$6,00060%
Fidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc$3,00030%
Healthy Eyes Alliance$2,00020%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($101k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSacred Heart University Incorporated: $29,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetFairfield University: $23,000 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetGreater Bridgeport Symphony Society Inc: $19,000 over 9y, 0.8% of budgetBridgeport Rescue Mission Inc: $17,500 over 9y, 0.0% of budgetMikey's Way Foundation Inc: $17,000 over 9y, 0.7% of budgetBradys Smile: $13,500 over 7y, 5.2% of budgetCatholic Charities of Fairfield County Inc: $12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetThe Charlotte Helen Bacon Foundation Inc: $11,500 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetSt Vincent's Medical Center Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMercy Learning Center of Bridgeport Inc: $10,500 over 9y, 0.1% of budgetThe Tiny Miracles Foundation Inc: $10,500 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetApplied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: $9,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBlood Cancer United Inc: $6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHealthy Eyes Alliance: $2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 15.

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 Community Foundation IncCT17.6× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Cyrus W & Amy F Jones & Bessie D Phelps Foundation Inc · Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile 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.

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About The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd

How much does The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd give?
The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd reported 18 grants totaling $36,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 22 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (33%), Education (21%), Human Services (18%).
Who are The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sacred Heart University Incorporated ($29k), Fairfield University ($23k), Greater Bridgeport Symphony Society Inc ($19k).
Does The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd 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 Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Cyrus W & Amy F Jones & Bessie D Phelps Foundation Inc, Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen Memorial Foundation Inc.
Where is The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd based?
The Eileen a Delaney Margaret J Delaney James Delaney & Ellen Delaney Mem Fnd is based in CT.

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 26 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-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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