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The Fairfield Foundation
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.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k65 grants · $318k
- $10k–50k29 grants · $370k
- $50k–250k5 grants · $300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SALISBURY SCHOOL | $100,000 |
| WILLIAMS COLLEGE | $50,000 |
| SCOVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| SALISBURY SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| SCOVILLE MEMORIAL LIBRARY | $50,000 |
| FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER | $30,000 |
| THE CLARK MUSEUM | $25,000 |
| VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART | $20,000 |
| ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT | $20,000 |
| THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| HENRY L FERGUSON MUSEUM | $15,000 |
| THE PARK SCHOOL | $15,000 |
| MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN | $15,000 |
| THE LITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCIS FOR THE WELFARE OF ANIMALS INC | $15,000 |
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING | $10,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY20–25, $277k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 7%. 25% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
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.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.
64 repeat relationships — 52 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 12 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, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $93k 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
- SSSALISBURY SCHOOL INC6× · 2020–2025 · $638k · revenue +81%
- FIFISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC6× · 2020–2025 · $208k · revenue +62%
- IHISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC6× · 2020–2025 · $183k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- NCNATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $25k · revenue +274%
- TLTHE LITTLE GUILD OF ST FRANCIS THE WELFARE OF ANIMALS INCone grant, 2024 · $25k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2024 · $20k
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.
The nantucket conservation foundation owns, protects, and stewards over 9,000 acres of land and coastal shoreline, conserves nantucket's rare and significant natural resources, and engages in impactful ecological research to inform…
To preserve and steward aquidneck island's open spaces for the lasting benefit of the community while connecting people with the land that defines the island's natural character.
The mission of Islesboro Islands Trust is to enhance the quality of residents' lives through the preservation of open space, educate all residents as to the value of the island's natural ecosystems, and act as an environmental advocate on…
The mission of the foundation is to raise funds to support island health and its commitment to community health in and around anacortes, washington.
The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…
The florence griswold museum seeks to promote a greater understanding of connecticut's contribution to american art and history through public exhibitions and educational programs.
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…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…
The foundation acts as a supporting organization for isles, inc. as described in section 509 (a)(3) of the internal revenue code. the foundation manages the investment activites of isles, inc.
The school's mission is grounded in the belief expressed by b. lord buckley that opening the eyes and awakening the mind is the essence of education. guided by that mission for almost a century, buckley has purposely focused on developing…
St. francis college is an independent, coeducational institution of higher education chartered by an act of the regents of the university of the state of new york on april 10, 1957.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Fishers Island Community Center Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Triangle Fund. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 46 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 0% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% 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.
58 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. 58 of the 91 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.
- Who funds SALISBURY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND COMMUNITY CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds ISLAND HEALTH PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds LAWRENCE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL INC ↗
- Who funds THE JOHN'S ISLAND FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WALSH PARK BENEVOLENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds JOHN'S ISLAND COMMUNITY SERVICE LEAGUE INC ↗
- Who funds Henry L Ferguson Museum ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds INDIAN RIVER LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND RECREATIONAL PATH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds PARK SCHOOL CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND BAPTIST HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FISHERS ISLAND CONSERVANCY INC ↗
- Who funds BEACON HILL NURSERY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds MCKEE BOTANICAL GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds THE FESSENDEN SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VERO BEACH MUSEUM OF ART INC ↗
- Who funds ST GEORGE'S SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds VETERANS COUNCIL OF INDIAN RIVER CO ↗
- Who funds Children's Hospital Corporation ↗
- Who funds SKIDMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds FOCUSED ULTRASOUND FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE LIGHTHOUSE WORKS INC ↗
- Who funds ST LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE TRIANGLE FUND ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL COAST GUARD MUSEUM ASSOCIATION INC ↗
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 Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc · The Willinphila Foundation · The Sooner Foundation · The McCance Foundation · Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Anne and Rollin Bates Foundation Inc · The Frederic C Hamilton Family Foundation · The Spofford Foundation Inc · Fleetwood Foundation · The William C and Cindy L Scott Foundation · The Long Stems Foundation Inc · W L Lyons Brown Jr Charitable 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 Fairfield Foundation 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.
- The Salisbury Association Inc — 54% of income from government
- Salisbury Housing Trust — 25% of income from government
- The Equus Effect Inc — 16% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation — 10% of income from government
- New England Baptist Hospital — 1% of income from government
- National Coast Guard Museum Association Inc — 1% of income from government
- Indian River Land Trust Inc — 0% of income from government
- Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc — 0% of income from government
- The Fessenden School — 0% of income from government
- The Learning Alliance Inc — 0% of income from government
- Williams College — 0% of income from government
- Choate Rosemary Hall Foundation Incorporated — 0% 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.
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