Connecticut · Nonprofit
BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP
BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($17,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
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.
- The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inclocalportfolio match
- Southwestern Ct Agency on Aging Incshared funderslocal
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corpportfolio 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.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 100% · 2018 21% · 2019 22% · 2020 87% · 2021 2% · 2022 30% · 2023 79% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
1 of 1 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 100% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP’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.
Where its funders are
100% of BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Too little is directly attributable to place on a map.
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $18k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 stateis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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.
- The Bridgeport Rotary Club Foundation Inclocalportfolio matchCT · funds 35 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Southwestern Ct Agency on Aging Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 36 organizations near you
- Brattleboro Development Credit Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Enterprise Florida Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Southern Alleghenies Planning and Development Comissionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cooperative Energyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Center for Regional Strategies Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wells Fargo Regional Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Lift Corpportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Neighborhood Progress Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pennsylvania Cdfi Networkportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Loan Fund of New Jersey Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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.
Government funding BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $2.1M on record.
- Trnsfr Grant Expend-St Agency$889k
- State Aid Grants$600k
- ARPA Beneficiary Award$350k
- Pass thru Grant Non-State$162k
- Management Consultant Services$100k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP
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.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
96%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Part of a family of 1 related entity
- Bridgeport Regional Business Council · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP: 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.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP?
- BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP (Connecticut) receives grants from 1 organization whose IRS filings report $17,500 to it, the largest being FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($17,500). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP have?
- IRS filings report 1 organization giving $17,500 in grants to BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP?
- FAIRFIELD COUNTY'S COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $17,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGEPORT ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT CORP 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 1funders 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