How much did THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE grant in FY2023?

THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE reported 1 grants totaling $307,978 in its FY2023 IRS filing.

Where is THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE based?

THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE is based in CT.

THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE

Foundation Dossiers Mostly funded, not a grantmaker — see who funds it →

· Public charity

THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE

To continually seek additional sources of funding to expand, enhance and enrich the educational opportunities available to the students in bridgeport public schools; and thereby contribute to fostering excellence and innovation in the educational experience throughout the school district.

$308k

Granted FY2023

Grants

Communities

$295k

Largest

01What you fund

What you funded, over time

By grantee IRS cause code (NTEE).

A cause breakdown isn’t shown here: 100% of THE FOUNDATION FOR EXCELLENCE’s grantee dollars go to organizations outside the IRS cause taxonomy (common for large international and research funders), so a chart would be mostly “unclassified” and misrepresent the portfolio.

02FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

$294,603

Median grant

States reached

$1.6M

Total assets

Largest grants

BRIDGEPORT PUBLIC SCHOOLS$294,603

02The need

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.

None of your grants could be placed against cost of living need for this view.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your field

04the grantee network

0 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2021–2023.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

Early backer (in before they grew)

0/0

Grantees still filing

0/0

Grew since you first funded

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.

04Through Plinth

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How do I get to The Foundation for Excellence?

Find your warmest path to The Foundation for Excellence through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.