· Private foundation
The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 $10k44 grants · $68k
- $10k–50k4 grants · $87k
- $50k–250k1 grant · $60k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC | $60,000 |
| CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER | $30,000 |
| SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS | $30,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR PORTLAND PUBLIC SCHOOLS | $17,000 |
| SOUTHSIDE EARLY CHILDHOOD EDUCATION CENTER | $10,000 |
| JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHWEST NEW ENGLAND | $5,000 |
| SOUTH WINDSOR HIGH SCHOOL | $5,000 |
| THE VILLAGE FOR FAMILIES AND CHILDREN | $5,000 |
| COLCHESTER ALTERNATIVE SCHOOL-AGE TOTAL LEARNING EXPERIENCE INC CASTLE INC | $5,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC | $5,000 |
| SCHOLARSHIP AMERICA INC | $5,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF THE OZARKS | $5,000 |
| HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORP | $3,500 |
| PEDIGREE FOUNDATION | $3,150 |
| ALPHA KAPPA EDUCATIONAL FOUNDATION | $3,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $57k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 59% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
139 repeat relationships: 21 still active in FY2025, 118 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $26k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $248k · revenue +116%
- SOSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS5× · 2020–2025 · $90k · revenue +32%
Foundation for Portland Public Schools5× · 2020–2025 · $84k · revenue +104%
Funded once
- SOSOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS (CORPORATE PARTNERSHIP COUNCIL)one grant, 2024 · $30k
WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +36%- CACOME AND DINE (FIRST BAPTIST CHURCH OF AURORA)one grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Education and Research
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
The purpose of the water research foundation (wrf) is a definitive research organization to advance the science of all things water to better meet the evolving needs of its subscribers and the water sector. to engage exclusively in…
The primary mission of furman as a liberal arts institution is to provide a distinctive education in fine arts, humanities, social sciences, mathematics and the sciences, as well as selected professional disciplines.
How this is measured
219 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 219 of the 417 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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.
- Who funds CONNECTICUT SCIENCE CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds CLARKSON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOCIETY OF WOMEN ENGINEERS ↗
- Who funds Foundation for Portland Public Schools ↗
- Who funds ST LOUIS SCIENCE CENTER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD BANK OF THE ROCKIES ↗
- Who funds National Society of Black Engineers ↗
- Who funds WORCESTER POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds Tuskegee University ↗
- Who funds THE CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds Simsbury Historical Society Inc ↗
- Who funds HEALING MEALS FOUNDATION CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT WOMENS HALL OF FAME INC ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds COLORADO WOMEN'S EDUCATION FOUNDATI ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GIRLS IN STEM ↗
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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Robert & Margaret Patricelli Family Foundation · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Horizon Foundation Inc · Sam L Cohen Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · John T Gorman Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ensign-Bickford Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Village for Families and Children: 50% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Three Bays Preservation Inc: 18% of income from government
- Connecticut Science Center Inc: 14% of income from government
- Levo International Inc: 10% of income from government
- Planned Parenthood of Southern New England Inc: 10% of income from government
- New Britain Police Athletic League Inc: 9% of income from government
- Connecticut Theater Company Inc: 8% of income from government
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute: 8% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- The Shriners' Hospital for Children: 6% of income from government
- Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
- Huntington Theatre Co Inc: 4% of income from government
- Mote Marine Laboratory Inc: 4% of income from government
- Veterans Base Camp Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Salem Mission Inc: 4% of income from government
- Best Buddies International Inc: 4% of income from government
- Connecticut Public Broadcasting Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Girl Scouts of Connecticut Inc: 2% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
- New England Wildlife Center Inc: 1% of income from government
- Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Healing Meals Foundation Corporation: 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Trinity College: 0% of income from government
- Baystate Health Foundation Inc: 0% of income from government
- Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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