· Private foundation
The Gibbons 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 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 $10k25 grants · $35k
- $10k–50k2 grants · $45k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BOWDOIN COLLEGE | $30,000 |
| GREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION | $15,185 |
| THE HOSPITAL FOR SPECIAL SURGERY FUNC INC | $3,000 |
| GREENWICH DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FUND INC | $3,000 |
| MAPLE STREET SCHOOL | $2,500 |
| SYCAMORES | $2,500 |
| GEMS | $2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,000 |
| NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR | $1,500 |
| FILLING IN THE BLANKS | $1,500 |
| UCLA FOUNDATION | $1,500 |
| MANCHESTER COMMUNITY LIBRARY | $1,500 |
| DEERFIELD ACADEMY | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| FAMILY CENTERS | $1,000 |
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, $45k) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 71% 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.
60 repeat relationships: 24 still active in FY2025, 36 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BCBowdoin College9× · 2017–2025 · $108k · revenue +94%
- KIKIDS IN CRISIS INC9× · 2017–2025 · $37k · revenue +76%
- GAGREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC5× · 2019–2025 · $33k · revenue +61%
Funded once
- GBGREEN BERET FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $12k · revenue +37%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · $8k
- MMMANCHESTER MED CTR FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $6k
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…
Brunswick school, inc. is a day school for boys in pre-kindergarten through twelfth grade. the purpose of the school is to educate the "whole boy". it does so by helping boys and young men - without regard to culture, ethnicity or religion…
Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…
To establish, organize, maintain and conduct an institution for secondary, undergraduate and graduate education in the state of connecticut, and to perform such other works of education, charity and religion. see schedule o.
The mission of ynhh is to provide innovative and excellent patient care, teaching, research, and service to the communities it serves.
Mass general brigham incorporated is developing an integrated health care delivery system throughout the region that offers patients a continuum of coordinated, high-quality care.
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.
To improve the world through research, scholarship, education, preservation, and practice.
Fairleigh dickinson university is a center of academic excellence dedicated to the preparation of world citizens through global education. the university strives to provide students with the multi-disciplinary, intercultural, and ethical…
Mitchell college educates students through a highly individualized educational approach that brings forward each student's potential, reveals their strengths, and fosters personal growth.
Greenwich academy is an independent college-preparatory day school for girls and young women that seeks to foster excellence. for more information see schedule o.its mission is to provide a challenging, comprehensive educational experience…
To operate an acute care hospital in bridgeport, connecticut for the care and treatment of persons suffering from disease or other physical or mental conditions without regard to race, color, creed, sex, age or ability to pay.
How this is measured
50 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. 50 of the 97 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
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 Bowdoin College ↗
- Who funds Colby-Sawyer College ↗
- Who funds KIDS IN CRISIS INC ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH ALLIANCE FOR EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds BREAST CANCER ALLIANCE INC ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds MAPLE STREET FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF DEERFIELD ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds FAMILY CENTERS INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIOR LEAGUE OF GREENWICH CONN INC ↗
- Who funds The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds GREENWICH DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES FUND INC ↗
- Who funds GREEN BERET FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Maine Coast Heritage Trust ↗
- Who funds NEIGHBOR TO NEIGHBOR INC ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF THE SMITH COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds Harpswell Heritage Land Trust ↗
- Who funds HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC ↗
- Who funds JULIAN CURTISS SCHOOL PTA ↗
- Who funds American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ↗
- Who funds FILLING IN THE BLANKS INC ↗
- Who funds HARPSWELL AGING AT HOME ↗
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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Panwy Foundation Inc · The Resource Foundation Inc · Cornelia Cogswell Rossi Foundation Inc · The Old Stones Foundation Inc · Malkin Fund Inc · Royce Family Fund Inc · The William J and Frances E Deutsch Charitable Foundation · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ibm International Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Gibbons Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Gibbons Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Abilis Inc: 74% of income from government
- Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
- Applied Behavioral Rehabilitation Instit: 35% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
- Liberation Programs Inc: 24% of income from government
- Family Centers Inc: 20% of income from government
- The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
- Greenwich Alliance for Education Inc: 3% of income from government
- The Trustees of the Smith College: 1% of income from government
- The Stamford Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Greenwich Hospital: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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