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CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,077,623 to it, the largest being SOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC AGENCY ON AGING INC ($7,241,364). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.

$16M
Revenue FY2025
103
Funders on record
$18M
Grants received
$11M
Net assets
62/103 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 ($10M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 100 ($5.0M)2018 Revenue 118 ($12M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 125 ($6.3M)2019 Revenue 98 ($9.9M) Expenses 100 ($11M) Net assets 110 ($5.5M)2020 Revenue 107 ($11M) Expenses 94 ($10M) Net assets 127 ($6.4M)2021 Revenue 111 ($11M) Expenses 94 ($10.0M) Net assets 152 ($7.6M)2022 Revenue 125 ($13M) Expenses 111 ($12M) Net assets 169 ($8.5M)2023 Revenue 148 ($15M) Expenses 124 ($13M) Net assets 204 ($10M)2024 Revenue 151 ($15M) Expenses 132 ($14M) Net assets 227 ($11M)2025 Revenue 155 ($16M) Expenses 148 ($16M) Net assets 229 ($11M)
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Revenue (155)Expenses (148)Net assets (229)

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.

2017
2018
2019
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2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 51% · 2018 43% · 2019 49% · 2020 42% · 2021 41% · 2022 51% · 2023 40% · 2024 37% · 2025 40%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.

$540k
17
$1.3M
18
$758k
19
$745k
20
$1.2M
21
$854k
22
$1.7M
23
$1.2M
24
$23k
25
3.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 21 funders to 52 funders, grant income rose $290k → $3.8M.

20 of 103 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF)22% 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 103 funders by total. 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

CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 55%; half comes from just 3 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 funders to its left

75% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC.

40%
largest funder
55%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 23% · 2018 33% · 2019 34% · 2020 38% · 2021 40% · 2022 50% · 2023 41%growing more concentrated.

“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

48% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

75% of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC's grant income comes from Connecticut funders.

WA
IL
NY
NV
NJ
CT
RI
CA
VA
DE
NC
TX
FL

In-state vs out-of-state, by year

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Connecticut out of state home

Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $4.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 13 statesis 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.

03Its place in the field

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 103 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC receives

Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $1.6M on record.

Federal$1.6M
grants $1.6Mcontracts $0
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Top agencies
  • Department of Housing and Urban Development$1.6M

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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

85% of spending goes to programs.

Program 85%Management 11%Fundraising 3%

Governance

15
board members
93%
independent
Conflict-of-interest policyWhistleblower policyDocument retentionBoard reviewed the 990Audited financials

Public support

98%

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 Roman Catholic Diocesan Corporation · exempt

Screen this organization

A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC: 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 CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC?
CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC (Connecticut) receives grants from 103 organizations whose IRS filings report $18,077,623 to it, the largest being SOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC AGENCY ON AGING INC ($7,241,364). 62 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC have?
IRS filings report 103 organizations giving $18,077,623 in grants to CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC, 62 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC?
SOUTHWESTERN CT AGENCY ON AGING INC AGENCY ON AGING INC is the largest funder on record, with $7,241,364 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF FAIRFIELD COUNTY INC 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 103funders 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