Connecticut · Nonprofit
BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY
BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,299 to it, the largest being Nessel Family Foundation Inc ($42,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2025
- $190k
- Funders on record
- 10
- Grants received
- $123k
- Net assets
- $2.1M
What Bridgeport Ladies Charitable Society does
Mission
Charitable grants to indigent persons in the greater bridgeport, connecticut area
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The organization grants assistance to indigent persons in the greater bridgeport, ct area in need of emergency or short term help in obtaining medicine, fuel oil, utilities, meals or other aid. The organization also grants assistance in the form of campership grants for needy individuals and financial help for necessary personal items. The organization may grant scholarships to students in need. The organization assists an average of 8-9 persons each month.
$139,377 spentof which $139,377 as grants100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2024 Form 990. Program spending in total: $139,377.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from $1.9M to $1.5M (−22%).
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.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose $8k → $26k.
3 of 10 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 24% 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 LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY’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
BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 34% of grant income and the top three 82%; 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 66% · 2018 59% · 2019 59% · 2020 27% · 2021 41% · 2022 33% · 2023 58% — 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
60% of BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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
99% of BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $30k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 states is 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.
Organizations like BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the 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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
69%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY: 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 BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY?
- BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY (Connecticut) receives grants from 10 organizations whose IRS filings report $123,299 to it, the largest being Nessel Family Foundation Inc ($42,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY have?
- IRS filings report 10 organizations giving $123,299 in grants to BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY?
- Nessel Family Foundation Inc is the largest funder on record, with $42,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGEPORT LADIES CHARITABLE SOCIETY 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 10 funders 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 October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing