Connecticut · Private foundation
The Goodnow Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 111
- Grants FY2024
- 107
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 103 to 107
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 17
- Total assets, FY2024
- $21M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 21% of the organizations The Goodnow Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 103 | $1.6M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 107 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2022 | 103 | $1.4M | 21% |
| FY2021 | 105 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation | $1,117,811 | 4 | 1% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $400,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Family Centers Inc | $377,500 | 4 | 1% |
| Family & Children's Agency Inc | $160,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $130,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Environmental Defense Fund Incorporated | $125,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Fresh Air Fund | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc | $100,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Nuclear Threat Initiative Inc | $100,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 107 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 52 recipients with no EIN on record ($906k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Goodnow Fund 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Stamford Rotary Trust Fund · Viking Global Foundation Inc · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts · The Pitney Bowes Foundation · Peoples United Community Foundation · The Darien Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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Find your warmest path to The Goodnow Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About The Goodnow Fund
- How much does The Goodnow Fund give?
- The Goodnow Fund reported 111 grants totaling $1,606,100 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 103 and 107 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does The Goodnow Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (23%), International (12%), Education (11%).
- Who are The Goodnow Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Alzheimer's Drug Discovery Foundation ($1.1M), Save The Children Federation Inc ($400k), Family Centers Inc ($378k).
- Does The Goodnow Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Goodnow Fund accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Goodnow Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The Near and Far Association Inc, New Canaan Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Goodnow Fund based?
- The Goodnow Fund is based in CT.
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