Connecticut · Private foundation
The Rockfall Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $33k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 11
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 36%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $4,900
- Organizations funded a year
- 10 to 15
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.3M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 36% of the organizations The Rockfall Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 28% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $8k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 11 | $33k | 36% |
| FY2024 | 11 | $31k | 36% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $36k | 67% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $30k | 58% |
| FY2021 | 11 | $26k | 64% |
| FY2020 | 13 | $37k | 77% |
| FY2019 | 10 | $34k | 50% |
| FY2018 | 10 | $29k | 70% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Shore YMCA Inc | $25,725 | 9 | 0% |
| Everyone Outside | $16,620 | 6 | 2% |
| Connecticut Forest & Park Association | $13,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Two Coyotes Wilderness School Inc | $7,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Connecticut River Foundation at Steamboat Dock Inc | $6,950 | 2 | 0% |
| Soundwaters Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brownstone Quarum Inc | $5,300 | 3 | n/a |
| North End Action Team Inc | $5,250 | 1 | n/a |
| Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Wesleyan University | $4,900 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($145k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Rockfall Foundation 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: Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Kitchings Family Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · Dominion Energy Charitable Foundation · National Fish and Wildlife Foundation · Westbrook Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About The Rockfall Foundation
- How much does The Rockfall Foundation give?
- The Rockfall Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $33,200 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 10 and 15 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Rockfall Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (70%), Human Services (11%), Arts & Culture (7%).
- Who are The Rockfall Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Valley Shore YMCA Inc ($26k), Everyone Outside ($17k), Connecticut Forest & Park Association ($13k).
- Does The Rockfall Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 36% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Rockfall Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Rockfall Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Middlesex County Inc, Aetna Foundation Inc, Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
- Where is The Rockfall Foundation based?
- The Rockfall Foundation is based in CT.
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