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Inisfad Foundation Inc

New York, NY · EIN 13-6157475. Reported 46 grants totalling $507,172 to 33 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$1,000median grant
$507,172granted, 2021-2024
33organizations funded
44%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,210,850assets, 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. Inisfad Foundation Inc 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 $1,000. Half of everything it gave fell between $500 and $5,000; the smallest was $41 and the largest $100,000. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
16 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
16 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
5 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
4 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
2 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
1 grant
$100,000 and Up
2 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
Building One CommunityStamford, CT$106,050332024
Greater HorizonsKansas City, MO$100,000112022
Schwab CharitableOrlando, FL$100,000112022
See Schedule AttachedNew York, NY$99,850112021
Ncc FoundationNorwalk, CT$20,000112024
Norwalk Symphony OrchestraNorwalk, CT$12,000222023
Norwalk HospitalNorwalk, CT$10,000112023
Norwalk Hospital FoundationNorwalk, CT$10,000112024
Norwalk Symphony SocietyNorwalk, CT$8,193222024
Norwalk SymphonyNorwalk, CT$5,000112022
Other Donations Less Than 1000Rowayton, CT$5,000112023
St Paul's NorwalkNorwalk, CT$4,500112024
St Paul's on the GreenNorwalk, CT$4,000112023
St Pauls NorwalkNorwalk, CT$4,000112022
Darien LibraryDarien, CT$3,000332024
Rowayton LibraryNorwalk, CT$3,000332024
Impact Fairfield CountyRosemont, IL$2,200112023
Portsmouth AbbeyPortsmouth, RI$2,000222023
Helping KidsRockford, IL$1,500112023
The Avon Film CenterStamford, CT$1,200222023
Holy Cross MonasteryWest Park, NY$1,000112023
Impact Field CountRosemont, IL$1,000112022
Portsmouth Abbey SchoolPortsmouth, RI$1,000112024
Doctors Without BordersNew York, NY$500112023
The Avon Theatre GroupStamford, CT$500112024
ThirteenNew York, NY$483332024
Met MuseumNew York, NY$420222023
The Maritime AquariumNorwalk, CT$250112023
Metropolitan MuseumNew York, NY$210112024
Darien Community AssociationDarien, CT$100112024
Knights of ColumbusColumbia, MO$100112023
The Norwalk Seaport AssociationNorwalk, CT$75112024
Mather Homestead FoundationStamford, CT$41112023

9 of 33 (27%) 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 44%, across 2 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is less consistent than most. 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 16 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
4 grants
Arts & Culture
4 grants
Human Services
3 grants
Health Care
2 grants
Religion
1 grant
Community Improvement
1 grant
Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 grant

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
20211$99,850$99,850
202213$239,410$1,000
202319$76,638$1,000
202413$91,274$1,000

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. 39% 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
$197K
New York
$102K
Missouri
$100K
Florida
$100K
Illinois
$5K
Rhode Island
$3K

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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.

Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund9 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc8 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust6 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program6 shared recipientsAmerican Online Giving Foundation Inc5 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc5 shared recipients

How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $1,000. 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.

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Inisfad Foundation Inc'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: 1411 Broadway 9TH Floor, New York, NY, 10018. 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 13-6157475 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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