Connecticut · Nonprofit
BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION
BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,925 to it, the largest being THE PAMELA HOWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Incshared funders
- Marine Industries Association of Palm Beach County Incportfolio match
- Edward Freitag & Martha Haley Fdn Incportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $725 → $6k.
From the IRS filings of BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 29% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 67% · 2019 66% · 2020 25% · 2021 45% · 2022 35% · 2023 34% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
67% of BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION draws 71% of its grant income from funders outside Connecticut, across 10 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 37 organizations that share your funders
- Marine Industries Association of Palm Beach County Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edward Freitag & Martha Haley Fdn Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bow Seat Creative Action for Conservationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Only One Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J&A Racing Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Palmer Walbridge Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Surfing's Evolution & Preservation Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Loring Wolcott & Coolidge Charitable Trust-Ishared fundersMA · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Charles G Wright Endowment for Huma Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Susan & George Craig Family Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitableshared fundersMA · backs 56 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Organizations like BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION
Nonprofits whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over the universe of US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Connecticut
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION?
- BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION (Connecticut) receives grants from 13 organizations whose IRS filings report $35,925 to it, the largest being THE PAMELA HOWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC ($10,500). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION have?
- IRS filings report 13 organizations giving $35,925 in grants to BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION?
- THE PAMELA HOWARD FAMILY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $10,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BONNELL COVE FOUNDATION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Connecticut. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2017–2025), and the filings of 13funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing