· Private foundation
The Rockfall Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY | $4,900 |
| CONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOC | $4,000 |
| FOUNTAIN HILL CEMETARY ASSOCIATIO | $3,600 |
| BUSHY HILL NATURE CENTER | $3,500 |
| TWO COYOTES WILDNERNESS SCHOOL | $3,500 |
| EVERYONE OUTSIDE INC | $3,500 |
| VALLEY SHORE YMCA | $3,500 |
| CONNECTICUT RIVER MUSEUM | $2,950 |
| BROWNSTONE QUORUM | $1,800 |
| OLD SAYBROOK MIDDLE SCHOOL | $1,050 |
| EAST HAMPTON CLEAN ENERGY TASK FORC | $900 |
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, $30k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
18 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2025, 11 since wound down; 4 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, 61% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- VSValley Shore YMCA Inc9× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +48%
- EOEVERYONE OUTSIDE6× · 2020–2025 · $17k · revenue +20%
- TCTHE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC2× · 2024–2025 · $7k · revenue +9%
Funded once
- SISOUNDWATERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $6k · revenue +61%
- NENORTH END ACTION TEAM INCone grant, 2019 · $5k
CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $5k · revenue +56%
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.
Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land
Founded in 1966, Aspetuck Land Trust is a non-profit membership ogranization whose mission is to protect land forever and connect people to the natural world.
The Land Conservancy of Ridgefield, Inc. ("the Land Conservancy"), founded in 1967, preserves and protects, for the general benefit of the public, Ridgefield, Connecticut's natural resources including land and water resources, the plant…
Kestrel land trust inc. conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts, while nurturing an enduring love of the land
The primary mission of Redding Land Trust is to preserve the natural resources of the Town of Redding, CT and to promote the scientific and educational study of local and natural resources, and to acquire, by gift or purchase, land or…
Preservation of natural resources in the town of haddam, connecticut.
The royal river conservation trust (rrct) is a regional land trust working primarily in seven maine municipalities. the trust owns,cares for, and stewards land and conservation easements to protect land and water resources for the general…
The mission of the SRLT is to recognize and conserve the rich wild and workinglandscape of Central Maine's Sebasticook River watershed through conservation,stewardship and education. Our focal programs are land conservation for…
Preservation of open space in watertown, ct; maintenance of owned and conserved properties and public education of enviromental issues.
The Farmington Land Trust Inc protects open space in the town of Farmington CT through the acquisition of open space, stewardship of acquired land, education of the public about the importance of open space and advocacy that ensures…
To engage in and otherwise promote the benefit of the general public the preservation and conservation of the natural resources in the greater manchester, connecticut area, including water resources, swamps, woodlands and other spaces, and…
How this is measured
25 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. 25 of the 66 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 Valley Shore YMCA Inc ↗
- Who funds EVERYONE OUTSIDE ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT FOREST & PARK ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds TWO COYOTES WILDERNESS SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds THE CONNECTICUT RIVER FOUNDATION AT STEAMBOAT DOCK INC ↗
- Who funds SOUNDWATERS INC ↗
- Who funds CONNECTICUT RIVER WATERSHED COUNCIL INC ↗
- Who funds WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc ↗
- Who funds CT LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds EAST HADDAM LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds THE INDEPENDENT DAY SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds ESTUARY COUNCIL OF SENIORS INC ↗
- Who funds ARTFARM ↗
- Who funds KILLINGWORTH LAND CONSERVATION TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds PATHFINDERS 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Rockfall Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Rockfall Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Connecticut River Watershed Council Inc: 40% of income from government
- Connecticut Forest & Park Association: 16% of income from government
- Lyme Land Conservation Trust Inc: 16% of income from government
- Connecticut Land Conservation Council Inc: 12% of income from government
- I-Park Foundation Inc: 10% of income from government
- Sea Research Foundation Inc: 8% of income from government
- St Vincent Depaul Middletown: 6% of income from government
- Soundwaters Inc: 4% of income from government
- Two Coyotes Wilderness School Inc: 4% of income from government
- Wesleyan University: 1% of income from government
- Brainerd Memorial Library: 0% of income from government
- High Hopes Therapeutic Riding Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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