Foundations · IRS 990 filings

Foundations in Fairfield, Connecticut

40
foundations with a Fairfield address
$59.7M
grants paid, FY2024–FY2025
6
say they accept unsolicited
$4,500
median grant

Grantlas lists 40 foundations that gave a Fairfield, Connecticut address on their tax filing — 39 private foundations and 1 grantmaking charity — from filings for FY2024–FY2025. Together they paid out $59.7 million in grants in their latest filing year, and 6 of them (15%) say they accept unsolicited requests.

Not every foundation here is a Fairfield foundation. The city is the mailing address on the foundation’s tax filing, and when a bank or a law firm runs the trust that is the bank’s address, not the place it gives to. Check where a foundation gives before you write.

Top 25 of 40 foundations

Ranked by what they paid in grants in their latest filing, with the ones that accept unsolicited requests first, then the ones whose filing doesn’t say.

Foundations in Fairfield, Connecticut
Kreitler Foundation Inc Dba theAccepts$5,000$856,834$100–$265,765FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Emil and Toby Meshberg FamilyAccepts$5,000$197,075$250–$60,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Petchers Foundation IncAccepts$2,500$162,100$50–$25,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Elsie A Brown Fund IncAccepts$2,000$111,000$500–$15,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Spiralis Music Trust UAD 08-08-03Accepts$20,000$20,000—FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Paloian Family Foundation IncAccepts$5,000$5,500$500–$5,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Charityvest IncGrantmaking charityNot stated$41.7MOver $5k only$51.8M$31.7M–$51.8MFY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Betsy and Jesse FinkInvitation only$17,500$1.7M$2,500–$250,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Leonard Litz FoundationInvitation only$6,775$1.3M$500–$170,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Marie G Dennett Foundation IncInvitation only$5,000$450,750$250–$50,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Joyce Hergenhan Private FoundationInvitation only$4,000$442,640$500–$365,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Axe-Houghton FoundationInvitation only$8,000$425,230$5,000–$14,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Demattia Charitable Foundation IncInvitation only$10,000$414,226$1,000–$250,100FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Ferguson Family Foundation IncInvitation only$20,000$352,000$5,000–$59,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
The Rust Family FoundationInvitation only$7,826$255,000$1,500–$30,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Cyrus W & Amy F Jones &Invitation only$5,500$201,000$2,000–$34,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Fred R & Hazel W Carstensen MemorialInvitation only$4,000$132,000$1,000–$32,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
The Agape Foundation IncInvitation only$1,350$103,850$250–$48,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Henry Unger Family Foundation IncInvitation only$45,457$96,751$20,000–$76,751FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Trischman Family Foundation IncInvitation only$1,808$96,038$100–$25,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Ochiltree Foundation for Animal WelfareInvitation only$35,886$71,771$19,139–$52,632FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
Elizabeth Bond Davis Foundation IncInvitation only$5,550$66,717$2,000–$22,100FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Cler FoundationInvitation only$1,000$60,797$44–$25,000FY2024Locked: fit score and contacts
William H Prusoff FoundationInvitation only$2,350$51,736$600–$25,000FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
Charles Samdperil HumanitarianInvitation only$1,000$45,776$200–$9,286FY2025Locked: fit score and contacts
  • Median grant and grant range come from each funder’s grant schedule; a dash means there is none to report. Community foundations and other charities list only grants over $5,000, so their figures run high.
  • “One grant” means a schedule with a single grant — no median, nothing to range over. “One amount” means several grants, all the same size.

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Data from 990-PF and Form 990 filings, FY2024–FY2025. Updated November 8, 2026.