· Private foundation
The Lawrence a Bossidy 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, FY2020 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k6 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $110k
- $50k–250k3 grants · $250k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.9M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | $1,254,600 |
| RADICAL HOPE | $1,200,000 |
| RIDGE BOYSGIRLS CLUB | $400,000 |
| FOUNDATIONS OF NUVANCE HEALTH | $100,000 |
| COVENANT HOUSE | $100,000 |
| NANTUCKET PERFORMING ARTS CENTER | $50,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD SOCIAL SERVICES | $25,000 |
| CARDINAL DOLAN ANNUAL STEWARDSHIP APPEAL | $25,000 |
| SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION | $20,000 |
| RIDGEFIELD LIBRARY | $10,000 |
| DAMON RUNYON CANCER RESEARCH | $10,000 |
| LOUNSBURY HOUSE | $10,000 |
| OUR LADY OF FL SPIRITUAL CENTER | $10,000 |
| ST PAUL OF THE CROSS | $5,000 |
| SISTERS OF ST JOSEPH OF SPRINGFIELD | $1,500 |
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 (FY21–25, $394k) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% 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
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 80% of The Lawrence a Bossidy Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 90% of the giving stays in CT; by stated purpose, 17%.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +55% since the first grant, against +15% for those funded once.
31 repeat relationships: 12 still active in FY2025, 19 since wound down; 7 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, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $567k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- BGBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD5× · 2020–2024 · $553k · revenue +97%
- CHCOVENANT HOUSE5× · 2021–2025 · $300k · revenue +9%
- RIRVNAHEALTH INC3× · 2020–2022 · $269k · revenue +103%
Funded once
- DHDanbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Incone grant, 2020 · $200k · revenue -12%
- NHNUVANCE HEALTHone grant, 2022 · $200k
- WHWHITE HERON THEATER COMPANYone grant, 2021 · $100k · revenue +15%
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.
To support bridgeport hospital by, in large part, fundraising, and further, to fund and promote activities of the yale new haven health system, the integrated health care delivery system of which it is a part.
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.
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
The mission of norwalk hospital foundation is to raise funds, reinvest and administer these funds and make distributions to norwalk hospital and other not-for-profit norwalk hospital affiliates.
Northwell, inc. is organized and operated exclusively for charitable, scientific and educational purposes within the meaning of section 501(c)(3) of the internal revenue code. northwell, inc. is organized and operated exclusively for the…
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment, and compassion ofour family of caregivers.
Northfield mount hermon educates the head, heart and hands of our students. we engage their intellect, compassion, and talents, empowering them to act with humanity and purpose.
To render medical treatment to patients without regard to ability to pay for such treatment, and to promote a high quality of medical care and other services for the benefit of all persons in the communities it serves.
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…
To encourage and receive private and public support to enhance and expand rhode island college's continued tradition of educational excellence. the foundation provides support for scholarships, faculty research grants, capital…
North shore university hospital is part of northwell health ("northwell"), which strives to improve the health of the communities it serves and is committed to providing the highest quality clinical care; educating the current and future…
The rockefeller university (the university) is a world renowned center for research and graduate education in the biomedical sciences, chemistry, bioinformatics, and physics. the university's 73 laboratories conduct both clinical and basic…
How this is measured
26 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
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 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 26 of the 62 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 RADICAL HOPE INC ↗
- Who funds MEALS ON WHEELS OF RIDGEFIELD INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RIDGEFIELD ↗
- Who funds COVENANT HOUSE ↗
- Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds Danbury Hospital & New Milford Hospital Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds SANKATY HEAD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WHITE HERON THEATER COMPANY ↗
- Who funds MARINE CORPS SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Founders Hall Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds NANTUCKET PERFORMING ARTS CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds BUILDON INC ↗
- Who funds UNDERSTOOD FOR ALL INC ↗
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 Ayco Charitable Foundation · Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · Laszig Ij Tr · The Goldstone Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Synchrony Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Lawrence a Bossidy Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Lawrence a Bossidy Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Rides for Ridgefield Inc: 39% of income from government
- Children's Hospital Corporation: 10% of income from government
- Cardinal Shehan Center Inc: 4% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc: 2% of income from government
How this is measured
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