The Guilford Foundation Inc
Guilford, CT · EIN 51-0137132. Reported 72 grants totalling $1,643,424 to 48 organizations across tax years 2021-2025, on Form 990 Schedule I.
Does this grantmaker accept applications?
Its tax return does not say, and we will not guess. Private foundations file Form 990-PF, which asks outright whether they fund only organizations they select themselves -- 78% say yes, and that one answer is what lets the rest of this site tell you which foundations are worth approaching. Grantmaking charities like this one file a regular Form 990 instead, and the IRS never puts the question to them. Anyone claiming to know the answer from the filing is inventing it.
Three things in the filing do bear on it:
- What kind of organization it is. The IRS has no activity classification on file for this one, so we cannot tell you whether it is a community foundation or a single-institution support fund. The recipient list below is the better guide.
- How spread out its giving is. 48 distinct organizations, with 13% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is genuinely spread out -- the mark of a funder making many independent decisions rather than underwriting one institution.
- How much its list changes. 41% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 4 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 56% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% median for private foundations. It describes the organizations it already funds, not whether it would consider a new one.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $15,600. Half of what it reported fell between $7,500 and $30,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $82,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.
Every organization it funded
This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Recipients are grouped by the EIN the filer reported, not by name, so an organization that was typed differently in two years appears once rather than twice.
| Organization | Location | Total received | Grants | Years funded | Last |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Guilford Free Public Library Asso Inc | Guilford, CT | $218,607 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| Women and Family Life Center of Guilford Incorporated | Guilford, CT | $135,700 | 5 | 5 | 2025 |
| The Guilford Art Center Inc | Guilford, CT | $105,600 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ethan Miller Song Foundation Inc | Guilford, CT | $80,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Guilford Agricultural Society Inc | Guilford, CT | $76,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Guilford Interfaith Ministries Inc | Guilford, CT | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| The Connecticut Hospice Inc | Branford, CT | $75,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Nursery School Inc | Guilford, CT | $57,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Guilford Fund for Education Inc | Guilford, CT | $55,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Guilford a Better Chance Inc | Guilford, CT | $51,660 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Guilford Center for Children Inc | Guilford, CT | $47,500 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| Community Dining Room Inc | Branford, CT | $41,300 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Apk Charities Corporation | Madison, CT | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Guilford Community Television Inc | Guilford, CT | $37,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Starship Dance Theater and Company | Guilford, CT | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Guilford High School | Guilford, CT | $31,658 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Bhcare Inc | North Haven, CT | $30,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dorothy Whitfield Historic Society Inc | Guilford, CT | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Dudley Foundation Inc | Guilford, CT | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Faulkners Light Brigade Inc | Guilford, CT | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Guilford Keeping Society Inc | Guilford, CT | $26,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Central Connecticut Coast Young Mens Christian Association Inc | New Haven, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Junior Achievement of Southwest New England | Hartford, CT | $25,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Little Sprouts Learning Center | Guilford, CT | $23,000 | 2 | 2 | 2025 |
| Clifford W Beers Guidance Clinic Incorporated | New Haven, CT | $20,000 | 3 | 3 | 2025 |
| East Shore Regional Adult Daycare Center Inc | Branford, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Neighborhood Music School Inc | New Haven, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Menunkatuck Audubon Society Inc | Guilford, CT | $19,200 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Legacy Theatre | Branford, CT | $18,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shoreline Arts Alliance Inc | Madison, CT | $18,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Paul Dostie Kare Foundation Inc | Guilford, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Power Clean Recovery Corp | Branford, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Community Foundation for Greater New Haven | New Haven, CT | $11,166 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| The Guilford Preservation Alliance Inc | Guilford, CT | $10,120 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Calvin Leete Parent Teacher Organization | Guilford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Knights of Columbus | Guilford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Read to Grow Inc | Branford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Shoreline Village Ct | Branford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Blue Moon Raptors Inc | Guilford, CT | $9,413 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Guilford Social Services | Guilford, CT | $8,300 | 1 | 1 | 2022 |
| No Guilford Congregational Church | Guilford, CT | $8,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Guilford Lakes Elementary | Guilford, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Witness Stones Project Inc | Guilford, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| First Congregational Church of Guilford | Guilford, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Shoreline Chamber of Commerce Guilford Branford Alliance Inc | Guilford, CT | $5,500 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Cove Center for Grieving Children Inc | Cheshire, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Guilford Sailing Foundation Inc | New Haven, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Town of Guilford Social Services | Guilford, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2025 |
12 of 48 (25%) received money in more than one year over the 5 years we hold. Remember the $5,000 floor: an organization funded every year at $3,000 shows up here as never funded at all.
What the money was for
Taken verbatim from the purpose column of its filings, largest first. This is the closest thing to a statement of what it funds, in its own words.
- Guilford Art Center
SUPPORT MISSION OF ORGANIZATION - Guilford High School
TO SUPPORT THE MISSION OF THE ORGANIZATION - Guilford Preservation Alliance
TGF Leadership Initiatives
What kind of organizations it funds
By the activity category the IRS assigns each recipient, for the 29 of 48 recipients we could match to a registered organization. The categories are the IRS's, not ours -- Schedule I reports the recipient's EIN, so this is a lookup rather than a name match.
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants reported | Total | Median grant |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 10 | $132,358 | $8,650 |
| 2022 | 7 | $65,066 | $8,200 |
| 2023 | 17 | $629,075 | $35,000 |
| 2024 | 30 | $675,129 | $16,150 |
| 2025 | 8 | $141,796 | $7,500 |
Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- Form 990 arrives about a year after the year it covers, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a grantmaker winding down.
Where its money goes
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Funders that support the same organizations
These grantmakers and private foundations gave to organizations this one also funded. Shared grantees are a sign of overlapping priorities and nothing more: they do not show that any of these funders would consider a new organization. Each page says what its filings show.
How to approach this grantmaker
- Look for a published programme first. Unlike most private foundations, organizations of this kind often do run open, deadlined grant cycles with written guidelines. Its own website is the authority on that; this page is the authority on who it has actually paid.
- Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $15,600 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
- Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
- Read the recipient list for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer and a cheap one to get.
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Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from The Guilford Foundation Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2021-2025). Grant figures are from its returns. Recipient classifications, the concentration and retention figures and the funders that support the same organizations are our own calculations from them, described in how we build this.
On its most recent return it told the IRS it made grants to 9 section 501(c)(3) organizations and 0 other organizations. That is the filer's own count for one year; the totals above cover every year we hold.
Address of record on the latest return: Po Box 35, Guilford, CT, 06437.
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