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Eagan Family Charitable Foundation Trust

Ivoryton, CT · EIN 45-6503014. Reported 105 grants totalling $491,895 to 36 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,000median grant
$491,895granted, 2021-2024
36organizations funded
100%of grantees funded again the next year
$5,316,673assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Eagan Family Charitable Foundation Trust did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $3,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $6,000; the smallest was $500 and the largest $20,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
59 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
22 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
22 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
The Shoreline Soup KitchenEssex, CT$65,000442024
St Pio Roman Catholic ChurchOld Saybrook, CT$45,000442024
Alzheimers Disease ResearchClarksburg, MD$40,000442024
St Jude Children's Research HospitalMemphis, TN$40,000442024
Annual Catholic Appeal (norwich)Norwich, CT$32,500442024
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute & the Jimmy FundBoston, MA$24,000442024
Deep River AmbulanceDeep River, CT$20,000442024
Deep River Fire DeptDeep River, CT$20,000442024
Edmundite MissionsSelma, AL$20,000442024
Visiting Nurses of the Lower ValleyCenterbrook, CT$14,500442024
Estuary CouncilOld Saybrook, CT$14,000442024
Warriors for WarriorsEast Lyme, CT$13,500442024
Miss Debbie's Specialty ApplesBenson, NC$12,895442024
Walk With HaitiOld Saybrook, CT$12,500222024
Warm the Childrenco Liberty BankOld Saybrook, CT$12,500442024
American Diabetes AssociationAlexandria, VA$10,500442024
Ct Burns Care FoundationMilford, CT$10,000112024
Terri Brodeur Breast Cancer FoundationNew London, CT$8,000442024
Breakthrough T1DNew York, NY$5,000112024
Capuchin MissionsBurlingame, CA$5,000442024
Center for Hospice CareNorwich, CT$5,000222022
Deep River - Chester Lions ClubDeep River, CT$5,000442024
Deep River Historical SocietyDeep River, CT$5,000442024
Feeding AmericaChicago, IL$5,000112024
Maryknoll MissionsMaryknoll, NY$5,000442024
Middlesex Habitat for Humanity of CtCromwell, CT$5,000112024
Rose City Learning CenterPreston, CT$5,000112024
Samaritan's PurseBoone, NC$5,000112024
Tri-Town Youth ServicesDeep River, CT$5,000442024
Water MissionNorth Charleston, SC$5,000112024
World Central KitchenWashington, DC$5,000112024
Haitian Health FoundationNorwich, CT$4,000222022
American Lung Assoc of Ne IncE Hartford, CT$3,000222024
Deep River Garden ClubDeep River, CT$2,000112024
Outreach to HaitiNorwich, CT$2,000222022
Americare Lung Assoc of Ne IncE Hartford, CT$1,000222022

27 of 36 (75%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 100%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is unusually consistent. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 30 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Diseases & Disorders
5 grants
Health Care
4 grants
Medical Research
4 grants
Youth Development
4 grants
Public & Societal Benefit
4 grants
International Affairs
3 grants
Food & Nutrition
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202125$95,688$2,500
202225$95,829$2,500
202323$103,354$3,500
202432$197,024$5,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 63% of this one's giving went to organizations in Connecticut. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Connecticut
$310K
Maryland
$40K
Tennessee
$40K
Massachusetts
$24K
Alabama
$20K
North Carolina
$18K
Virginia
$10K
New York
$10K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

American Online Giving Foundation Inc7 shared recipientsFidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund5 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc5 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program4 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust4 shared recipientsNetwork for Good4 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,000. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Connecticut.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Eagan Family Charitable Foundation Trust's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 110 Pond Meadow, Ivoryton, CT, 06442. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 45-6503014 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

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