Connecticut · Nonprofit
IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY
IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY (Connecticut) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($220,700). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY is better cushioned than half of the 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,857 philanthropy nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
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.
- Stamford Rotary Trust Fundlocalportfolio match
- David and Eunice Bigelow Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundationlocalportfolio 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. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
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.
96% of IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (87% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 9 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose $13k → $50k.
6 of 16 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 88% 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 IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY’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
IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 82%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
88% 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 IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 91% · 2019 54% · 2020 50% · 2021 60% · 2022 50% · 2023 49% — 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
83% of IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
88% of IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY'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. Of the $50k that is directly attributable, 71% of it comes from funders outside Connecticut, across 4 states.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $376k arriving through sponsors registered in 5 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.
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 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Stamford Rotary Trust Fundlocalportfolio matchCT · funds 69 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- David and Eunice Bigelow Foundationlocalportfolio matchCT · funds 39 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ernest and Joan Trefz Foundationlocalportfolio matchCT · funds 60 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- New Canaan Community Foundation Incshared funderslocalCT · backs 65 organizations that share your funders · funds 155 organizations near you
- Aurora Women and Girls Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cummings & Lockwood Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kreitler Foundation Inc Dba the Hobart and Sally Kreitler Foundincportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Quidditch Foundation Inc Sheila J Clancy Trusteeportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Trinity Health of New England Corporation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abilis Community Foundation Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Community Health Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Highland Park Families Foundationportfolio 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.
Organizations like IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY
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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
100%
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 IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY: 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 IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY?
- IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY (Connecticut) receives grants from 16 organizations whose IRS filings report $426,250 to it, the largest being FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND ($220,700). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 88% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY have?
- IRS filings report 16 organizations giving $426,250 in grants to IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY?
- FIDELITY INVESTMENTS CHARITABLE GIFT FUND is the largest funder on record, with $220,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like IMPACT 100 FAIRFIELD COUNTY 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 16funders 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