New York · Private foundation
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.
- $988k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 99
- Grants FY2025
- 51
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 43 to 54
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $11M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations The Fairfield Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 64 | $988k | 19% |
| FY2024 | 51 | $712k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 43 | $696k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 45 | $825k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $622k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 46 | $503k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Salisbury School Inc | $637,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Fishers Island Community Center Inc | $207,760 | 6 | 5% |
| Island Health Project Inc | $183,000 | 6 | 4% |
| St Johns Episcopal Church | $180,317 | 6 | n/a |
| Lawrence Memorial Hospital Inc | $175,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The John's Island Foundation Inc | $130,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Walsh Park Benevolent Corporation | $113,000 | 6 | 10% |
| Williams College | $110,000 | 6 | 0% |
| John's Island Community Service League Inc | $100,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Henry L Ferguson Museum | $93,677 | 6 | 2% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Fairfield Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
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 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
How this is measured
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About The Fairfield Foundation
- How much does The Fairfield Foundation give?
- The Fairfield Foundation reported 99 grants totaling $988,225 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 43 and 54 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does The Fairfield Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (40%), Health (15%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are The Fairfield Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Salisbury School Inc ($638k), Fishers Island Community Center Inc ($208k), Island Health Project Inc ($183k).
- Does The Fairfield Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fairfield Foundation 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 Fairfield Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Emily Hall Tremaine Foundation Inc, The Willinphila Foundation, The Sooner Foundation.
- Where is The Fairfield Foundation based?
- The Fairfield Foundation is based in NY.
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