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The Orchard Farm Foundation at a glance

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The Orchard Farm Foundation

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
51
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
States reached
$766k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$994kHousing & Shelter$392kHuman Services$243kEducation$236kPhilanthropy$232kArts & Culture$216kYouth Development$161kRecreation & Sports$100kOther$0
02FY2024 · 51 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k21 grants · $100k
  • $10k–50k22 grants · $432k
  • $50k–250k7 grants · $710k
  • $250k+1 grant · $766k
$10,000
Median grant
10
States reached
$24M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUTISM SPEAKS$766,225
LOUIS J CAPANO JRIII FAMILY FOUNDATION$150,000
DOUG COOMBS FOUNDATION$150,000
MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC$125,000
WORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION$100,000
VINCEREMOS THERAPEUTIC RIDING CENTER$70,000
FUTURE FIVE$65,000
STAMFORD MUSEUM & NATURE CENTER$50,000
GROUP FOR THE EAST END$35,000
Individual grant recipient$35,000
GODDARD COLLEGE$25,000
THE SALVATION ARMY$25,000
UNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY$25,000
DENIS S BARRY FOUNDATION$25,000
THE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL$25,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its human-services grants (FY17–24, $58k) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 17% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%THE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $5k → 17%HARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE: $5k → 17%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $20k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $15k → 9%FAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $13k → 9%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
IL
MI
NY
MA
WY
NJ
CT
CA
VA
DE
SC
DC
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 10% of The Orchard Farm Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.

The Orchard Farm Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$1.9M · 29 repeat orgs$1.0M to everyone else

29 repeat relationships: 27 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 24 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
22

Total granted

$1.9M
$139k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+72%

Still filing today

69%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $909k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’21’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyHealthHousing & ShelterHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • PH
    PACIFIC HOUSE INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $132k · revenue +68%
  • TO
    THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC
    2× · 2017–2024 · $113k · revenue +8%
  • CF
    CONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC
    3× · 2017–2024 · $75k · revenue +153%

Funded once

  • TI
    THE INNER-CITY FOUNDATION FOR CHARITY & EDUCATION INC
    one grant, 2017 · $25k · revenue -100%
  • SF
    SERVICES FOR THE UNDERSERVED
    one grant, 2017 · $15k
  • AI
    ABC INC OF NEW CANAANgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · $15k · revenue +247%
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.

04Its field

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.

1
University of New Haven

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…

Education
2
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
3
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
4
Connecticut Police Chiefs Association Inc

The connecticut police chiefs association is an organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life of the residents of the state of connecticut; to aiding other government bodies within and external to the state of connecticut in the…

—
5
Neurology Associates of Stony Brook University Faculty Practice Corp

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
6
Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp

To manage the brooklyn navy yard for the city of new york, specifically to expand job opportunities for new yorkers by fostering the development of small businesses.

Community Improvement
7
Governors Island Corporation

The governors island corporation, doing business as the trust for governors island, is the 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization created by the city of new york and charged with the planning, redevelopment and ongoing operations of 150…

Animals
8
Connecticut Council for Philanthropy

Ccp organizes, inspires, and equips a community of funders to learn, collaborate, and lead together for sustained impact and social change in connecticut.

Philanthropy
9
Stony Brook Childrens Services University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
10
Stony Brook Urology University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
11
Stony Brook Internists University Faculty Practice Corporation

Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.

Health
12
Digital Harbor Foundation

Democratizing societal and economic well-being through digital equity for everyone, increased diversity in the tech sector, innovative education, and technology for the public good

Education
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Boys and Girls Harbor Inc; the most unlike its peers is The Louis J Capano Jriii Family Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
05the grantee network

55 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. 55 of the 76 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/55
Grantees still filing
37/55
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

AUTISM SPEAKS: $781,225 · OtherAUTISM SPEAKSCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $75,000 · OtherINSPIRICA INC: $73,000 · OtherKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $65,000 · OtherWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $100,000 · OtherWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATIONTHE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC: $72,000 · Other+42 more: $654,502 · Other+42 morePACIFIC HOUSE INC: $132,000 · Housing & ShelterPACIFIC HO…THE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $112,500 · Housing & ShelterTHE OPEN D…BUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $15,000 · Housing & ShelterBUILDING H…+1 more: $7,500 · Housing & ShelterThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $150,000 · Youth DevelopmentFUTURE 5 INC: $75,000 · Youth DevelopmentTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $125,000 · Arts & CultureStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: $50,000 · Arts & CultureROWAYTON ARTS CENTER: $27,000 · Arts & Culture+3 more: $12,300 · Arts & CultureTHE LOUIS J CAPANO JRIII FAMILY FOUNDATION: $150,000 · PhilanthropyROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $16,504 · PhilanthropyPERSON TO PERSON INC: $15,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $7,500 · PhilanthropyVinceremos Riding Center Inc: $70,000 · HealthCerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation: $10,000 · HealthALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 · HealthCORPORATE ANGEL NETWORK INC: $10,000 · HealthTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC: $5,000 · HealthTeach for America Inc: $32,500 · EducationTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $25,000 · EducationGODDARD COLLEGE: $25,000 · EducationABC INC OF NEW CANAAN: $15,000 · EducationACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $5,000 · Education+1 more: $500 · Education
Other$1,820,727Housing & Shelter$267,000Youth Development$225,000Arts & Culture$214,300Philanthropy$189,004Health$105,000Education$103,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetThe Doug Coombs Foundation: $150,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetTHE LOUIS J CAPANO JRIII FAMILY FOUNDATION: $150,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetPACIFIC HOUSE INC: $132,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK INC: $125,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE OPEN DOOR SHELTER INC: $112,500 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetWORLD CUP DREAMS FOUNDATION FKA SFI FOUNDATION: $100,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFUTURE 5 INC: $75,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetINSPIRICA INC: $73,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEAR AND FAR ASSOCIATION INC: $72,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetVinceremos Riding Center Inc: $70,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetKIDS IN CRISIS INC: $65,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetStamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY & CHILDREN'S AGENCY INC: $47,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF COASTAL FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHOMES WITH HOPE: $37,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGROUP FOR THE EAST END INC: $35,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTeach for America Inc: $32,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL FISH AND WILDLIFE FOUNDATION: $32,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE EVERGLADES FOUNDATION INC: $27,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROWAYTON ARTS CENTER: $27,000 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetTHE INNER-CITY FOUNDATION FOR CHARITY & EDUCATION INC: $25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE HOTCHKISS SCHOOL: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGODDARD COLLEGE: $25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSCAN-HARBOR INC: $20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROBIN HOOD FOUNDATION: $16,504 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBUILDING HOMES FOR HEROES INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetABC INC OF NEW CANAAN: $15,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetPERSON TO PERSON INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNorwalk Police Fund Incorporated: $12,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetDARIEN POLICE ASSOCIATION INC: $12,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT STATE POLICE UNION INC: $12,400 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCerebral Palsy Alliance Research Foundation: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALZHEIMER'S DISEASE & RELATED DISORDERS ASSOCIATION INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORPORATE ANGEL NETWORK INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE LORD'S PLACE INC: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNORWALK SEAPORT ASSOCIATION INC: $7,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTHE BUONICONTI FUND TO CURE PARALYSIS INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetACHIEVEMENT FIRST INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARENTCHILD INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS HARBOR INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Palm Beach Police and Fire Foundation Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENS LEDGE LIGHT PRESERVATION SOCIETY INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHARLEM CHILDREN'S ZONE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCongressional Medal of Honor Society of the United States of America: $5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE JOE TORRE SAFE AT HOME FOUNDATION: $5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSEAL FUTURE FOUNDATION INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Fairfield County's Co…New Canaan Community …The Goldman Sachs Cha…The Ayco Charitable F…Jewish Communal FundAlexander Family Foun…Connecticut Humanitie…FjcLeon N Lapine Residua…Rich Foundation IncThe Herbert & Nell Si…The Near and Far Asso…
Fairfield County's Community Foundation IncCT26.5× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · New Canaan Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · Alexander Family Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Fjc · Leon N Lapine Residuary Trust · Rich Foundation Inc · The Herbert & Nell Singer Foundation Inc · The Near and Far Association Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Orchard Farm Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Orchard Farm Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 180%5%19%42%75%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Kids in Crisis Inc: 49% of income from government
  • Family & Children's Agency Inc: 47% of income from government
  • Pacific House Inc: 46% of income from government
  • Inspirica Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Homes With Hope: 28% of income from government
  • The Open Door Shelter Inc: 14% of income from government
  • The Lord's Place Inc: 12% of income from government
  • Stamford Museum & Nature Center Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Sea Research Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Person to Person Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Rowayton Arts Center: 0% of income from government
  • Achievement First Inc: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
18get no government money at all
5report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 76 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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