Foundations that fund nonprofits in New Haven, CT

1,687 private foundations reported 3,340 grants to organizations in New Haven, Connecticut, on IRS 990-PF returns for tax year 2022 or later, $244.4M in all. 27 of them are based in New Haven.

Foundations1,687

Based in New Haven27

Grants on record3,340

Their typical grant$5,500

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Foundations based in New Haven

10 of the 27 local foundations that reported grants to New Haven organizations: profiles in our foundation directory first, then by the number of such grants on their latest return.

• The Melville Charitable Trust Inc

  New Haven, CT · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $12.4M in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 1 Total there $125K Typical grant $150,000 Describes how to apply
  • Connecticut Voices for Children - General operating grant$125,000

• The Fb Heron Foundation

  New Haven, CT · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $14.8M in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 1 Total there $1,000 Typical grant $2,500 Describes how to apply
  • Connecticut Voices for Children Inc - General Support$1,000

• New Alliance Foundation Inc

  New Haven, CT · latest return: tax year 2025

  Gave $1.1M in 2025
  Grants in New Haven 89 Total there $733K Typical grant $5,000 Describes how to apply
  • The New Haven Reads Community Book Bank Incorporated - To support the free literacy programs and community book bank at new haven reads.$25,000
  • Leadership Education and Athletics in Partnership - To support leaps free afterschool and summer academic and enrichment programming for low-income new haven…$20,000
  • Music Haven - To support six resident musicians for mentorship, one-on-one lessons, and group classes in strings, piano,…$20,000

• Ethel & Abe Lapides Foundation Inc

  New Haven, CT · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $95K in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 44 Total there $68K Typical grant $1,000 Describes how to apply
  • Connecticut Food Bank - Feed the needy$4,500
  • Columbus House - Program support$4,100
  • Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen - Feed the homeless$4,000

• The Koch Ellis Fund

  New Haven, CT · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $411K in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 19 Total there $166K Typical grant $1,000 Describes how to apply
  • Berkeley Divinity School of Yale - Pedge payment$51,100
  • United Way of Greater New Haven - General purpose$44,500
  • Yale New Haven Hospital - General purpose$20,100

• The Skye Foundation Inc

  New Haven, CT · latest return: tax year 2025

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 15 Total there $294K Typical grant $15,950 Preselected recipients only
  • Connecticut Fund for the Environment - Operating support$24,200
  • Habitat for Humanity - Operating support$24,200
  • Downtown Evening Soup Kitchen - Operating support$22,000

• Amour Propre Fund Inc

  New Haven, CT · latest return: tax year 2025

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 13 Total there $273K Typical grant $10,000 Preselected recipients only
  • City Seed - To facilitate cityseed to purchase van for charitable purposes related to farmers market and sanctuary…$55,383
  • Cornell Scott Hill Health - For general purposes$50,000
  • Boys and Girls Club of Greater New Haven - For general purposes$36,400

• International Association of New Haven Inc

  New Haven, CT · latest return: tax year 2024

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 10 Total there $79K Typical grant $1,000 Preselected recipients only
  • A Better Way Foundation - Supports art programs in fy25-26 that promote intercultural awareness about how gender-based violence impacts…$18,000
  • City Seed - Sanctuary Kitchen - Expand access to our culinary training program and welcome a new cohort of refugee and immigrant chefs;…$18,000
  • Iris - Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services - To support the youth leadership program (ylp) of iris, which provides refugee and immigrant high school…$18,000

• Claire & Maurits Edersheim Foundation

  New Haven, CT · latest return: tax year 2024

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 9 Total there $39K Typical grant $5,000 Preselected recipients only
  • Yale University Library - Donation$10,000
  • Yale University - Donation$10,000
  • Planned Parenthood SNE - Donation$5,750

• Womans Seamens Friend Society of Connecticut

  New Haven, CT · latest return: tax year 2025

  Gave $328K in 2025
  Grants in New Haven 8 Total there $93K Typical grant $17,800 Describes how to apply
  • New Haven Reads - Scholarships and operations$24,951
  • Integrated Refugee & Immigrant Services - Operations$20,000
  • Schooner Inc - Operations$20,000

Other foundations giving most in New Haven

Based elsewhere, by the number of grants to New Haven organizations on their latest return; profiles in our foundation directory first. Each shows its largest grants there.

• Amazonsmile Foundation

  Seattle, WA · latest return: tax year 2023

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 230 Total there $37K Typical grant $57 Preselected recipients only
  • Planned Parenthood of Southern New England - General support$3,195
  • Sosa - Safe From Online Sex Abuse Inc - General support$3,189
  • Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc - General support$2,990

• The Pfizer Foundation Inc

  New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 35 Total there $13K Typical grant $200 Preselected recipients only
  • Yale New Haven Hospital - Matching gifts$3,783
  • Yale University - Matching gifts$3,610
  • Hole in the Wall Gang Fund Inc - Matching gifts$1,200

• Seedlings Foundation

  Branford, CT · latest return: tax year 2025

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 24 Total there $7.5M Typical grant $150,000 Preselected recipients only
  • Friends Center for Children - Humanitarian/Educational/Community$1,701,000
  • Leap (Leadership Education & Athletics in Partnership) - Humanitarian/Educational/Community$1,000,000
  • United Way of Greater New Haven - Humanitarian/Educational/Community$608,000

• The Simons Foundation Inc

  New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 12 Total there $1.2M Typical grant $72,000 Preselected recipients only
  • Yale University - 2019 simons foundation powering autism research for knowledge (spark) clinical site network - yale university$219,995
  • Yale University - Connecting asd risk genes to circuits: multi-level characterization of the cortical subplate$199,766
  • Yale University - Reciprocal impacts of rare and common polygenic risk architecture for autism into biological measures -…$144,090

• Ion Bank Foundation Inc

  Naugatuck, CT · latest return: tax year 2025

  Gave $1M in 2025
  Grants in New Haven 12 Total there $45K Typical grant $525 Describes how to apply
  • Fair Haven Community Health Clinic Inc - Building health, strengthening community$15,000
  • United Way of Greater New Haven - Er match uw campaign$6,000
  • Neighborhood Housing Serv of New Haven Inc - "Neighborhood revitalization through affo"$5,000

• Dalio Foundation Inc

  Westport, CT · latest return: tax year 2024

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 11 Total there $3.7M Typical grant $35,000 Preselected recipients only
  • Connecticut Rise Network Inc - To support general operations$2,000,000
  • Connecticut Violence Intervention and Prevention Inc - To support general operations$750,000
  • Connecticut Conference of Municipalities - Restricted to developing a strategy for addressing connecticut's unspoken crisis$700,000

• Jpmorgan Chase Foundation

  New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2025

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 11 Total there $8,770 Typical grant $600 Preselected recipients only
  • Yale University - Matching contribution (general operating support)$2,700
  • Alumni Fund Association of Yale University - Matching contribution (general operating support)$1,850
  • Knights of Columbus Charities Inc - Matching contribution (general operating support)$1,120

• The Commonwealth Fund

  New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $31.3M in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 9 Total there $696K Typical grant $15,000 Describes how to apply
  • Yale University - Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership at Yale University, 2024-26$188,194
  • Yale University - Pozen-Commonwealth Fund Fellowship in Health Equity Leadership at Yale University, 2023-25$179,744
  • Yale University - Health Equity Fellow - AHE Team Support, Year 2$159,984

• Laura and John Arnold Foundation

  Houston, TX · latest return: tax year 2024

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 8 Total there $2.2M Typical grant $122,776 Preselected recipients only
  • Yale University - To support the renewal of grantee's collaboration for regulatory rigor, integrity, and transparency project,…$683,353
  • Yale University - To embed a research unit within the connecticut department of social services, with the aim of supporting the…$679,271
  • Yale University - To support scholarship involving health markets, insurance premiums, bad actors, and state-level interactions.$496,883

• The Horace W Goldsmith Foundation

  New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 8 Total there $1.9M Typical grant $70,000 Preselected recipients only
  • Yale Law School - Special purpose$500,000
  • Yale School of Management - Special purpose$500,000
  • Innovations for Poverty Action (Impact Matters) - General operations$250,000

• The Peter and Carmen Lucia Buck Foundation Inc

  New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024

  Invitation Only
  Grants in New Haven 7 Total there $4.6M Typical grant $150,000 Preselected recipients only
  • Achievement First - General operating support$3,500,000
  • New Haven Ecology Project - General operating support$331,500
  • Ccm's Foundation for Youth - Informational and educational advocacy and stakeholder support$250,000

• John Templeton Foundation

  West Conshohocken, PA · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $134.4M in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 7 Total there $2.1M Typical grant $215,979 Describes how to apply
  • Yale University - Growing the life worth living network in higher education$728,262
  • Yale University - Revelation project: finding meaning in nonreligious transformative contexts$574,620
  • Yale University - The science of flourishing for teens$344,000

• Alfred P Sloan Foundation

  New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $89M in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 7 Total there $936K Typical grant $100,000 Describes how to apply
  • Yale University - To assess the barriers and opportunities for establishing a resilient green graphite supply chain in the…$300,000
  • Yale University - To understand mechanistically how cellular information-processing enables and bounds the ability of bacteria…$281,031
  • Yale University - Alfred P. sloan research fellowship for stavroula hatzios in chemistry$75,000

• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

  Princeton, NJ · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $622.6M in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 7 Total there $350K Typical grant $46,950 Describes how to apply
  • Yale University - Creating model systems of cultural objects for the study of social inequalities$329,626
  • Yale University - Providing a roadmap for states seeking to enhance their capacity to ensure the adequacy of medicaid managed…$10,109
  • Yale University - Examining if and how two discrete government-funded social service programs, snap and medicaid, interact to…$8,131

• American Savings Foundation Inc

  New Britain, CT · latest return: tax year 2025

  Gave $3.4M in 2025
  Grants in New Haven 7 Total there $44K Typical grant $1,875 Describes how to apply
  • Clicc Inc - Program grants - literacy mentoring program 2025$10,000
  • New Haven Symphony Orchestra - Community grants - free family concerts in middletown$1,750
  • Yale University Itf Demiraj Andja - Scholarship program - scholarship$1,750

• Lilly Endowment Inc

  Indianapolis, IN · latest return: tax year 2025

  Gave $3.9B in 2025
  Grants in New Haven 6 Total there $2.1M Typical grant $100,000 Describes how to apply
  • Berkeley Divinity School - Pathways for tomorrow initiative$1,000,000
  • Yale University - Evaluation-Parenting & children init$960,281
  • Yale University - Religion & cultural inst initiative$100,000

• The Ford Foundation

  New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $844.7M in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 6 Total there $1.2M Typical grant $104,795 Describes how to apply
  • Yale University - Core support for the center for public theology and public policy$750,000
  • Yale University - Core support for projecting innovative budget estimates that focus on distributional impacts, long-term…$150,000
  • Nxthvn Inc - General support$125,000

• The Howard Gilman Foundation Inc

  New York, NY · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $27.8M in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 6 Total there $85K Typical grant $35,000 Describes how to apply
  • Yale-New Haven Hospital - Trustee grant - general operating support$30,000
  • Yale-New Haven Hospital - Trustee grant - healing through the arts program$30,000
  • New Haven Colony Historical Society - Trustee grant - general operating support$10,000

• Texas Instruments Foundation

  Dallas, TX · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $22.6M in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 6 Total there $11K Typical grant $500 Describes how to apply
  • Greenwave Organization Corp - Donations to colleges, universities and other organizations under "matching gifts program."$3,750
  • Yale University - Donations to colleges, universities and other organizations under "matching gifts program."$3,525
  • Alumni Fund Assoc Yale University - Donations to colleges, universities and other organizations under "matching gifts program."$2,050

• Gates Foundation

  Seattle, WA · latest return: tax year 2024

  Gave $6.3B in 2024
  Grants in New Haven 5 Total there $2.5M Typical grant $500,000 Describes how to apply
  • Yale University - Empower women and girls$1,243,936
  • Connecticut Rise Network Inc - K-12 education$487,000
  • Yale University - Create novel technology platform capabilities$353,103

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