Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc
Ridgefield, CT · EIN 06-0643072. Reported 131 grants totalling $2,032,020 to 54 organizations across tax years 2020-2024, 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. For Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc, the IRS classifies it under human services rather than as a grantmaker (NTEE P29Z) -- it is an operating charity that also makes grants.
- How spread out its giving is. 54 distinct organizations, with 12% 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. 76% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is well above the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and above the 67% private foundations manage. This list is close to settled, so a newcomer has to displace someone rather than fill a gap.
How big are its grants?
The median reported grant is $12,000. Half of what it reported fell between $10,000 and $20,000; the smallest was $5,000 and the largest $80,000. 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 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Center for Empowerment and Education Inc | Danbury, CT | $239,000 | 8 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Social Services | Ridgefiled, CT | $132,000 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Ridgefield Volunteer Fire Dept | Ridgefield, CT | $113,000 | 6 | 3 | 2024 |
| Boys & Girls Club of Ridgefield | Ridgefield, CT | $80,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Founders Hall Foundation Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $72,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $70,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc | Danbury, CT | $63,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ridgefiled Conservation Commission | Ridgefiled, CT | $60,200 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Town of Ridgefield | $58,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 | |
| Daily Bread - An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc | Danbury, CT | $52,500 | 3 | 3 | 2023 |
| Kids in Crisis Inc | Cos Cob, CT | $52,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Sphere Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $52,300 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Anns Place Inc | Danbury, CT | $52,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Act of Connecticut Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $50,000 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Keeler Tavern Preservation Society Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $47,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Prospects Opportunity and Enrichment Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $45,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Library Association Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $43,500 | 4 | 4 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Workshop for the Performing Arts Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $41,020 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Meals on Wheels of Ridgefield | Ridgefield, CT | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Historical Society | Ridgefield, CT | $40,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Rock N Rescue Inc | South Salem, NY | $40,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Chirp | Ridgefiled, CT | $38,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Dorothy Day Hospitality House Inc | Danbury, CT | $37,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Veterans Memorial Community Association Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $35,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Symphony Orchestra Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $30,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Association of Religious Communities Inc | Danbury, CT | $30,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| A Better Chance in Ridgefield Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $27,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Youth Service Bureau Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $26,000 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Family and Childrens Aid Inc | Danbury, CT | $25,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Homefront Inc | Stamford, CT | $22,500 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Rides for Ridgefield Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $22,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Catholic Charities of Fairfield | Shelton, CT | $21,500 | 3 | 3 | 2024 |
| Ability Beyond Disability Inc | Bethel, CT | $20,000 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Pet Animal Welfare Society of Connecticut | Norwalk, CT | $20,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Housing Authority | Ridgefield, CT | $18,100 | 2 | 2 | 2023 |
| Ridgefield Fathers Club Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $15,000 | 1 | 1 | 2021 |
| Friends of Ridgefield Parks and Recreation Commission Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $14,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ridgefield Operation for Animal | Ridgefield, CT | $12,500 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Newtown Underwater Search and Rescue | Newtown, CT | $11,800 | 2 | 2 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Graveyard Restoration Committee | Ridgefield, CT | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Ridgefield Police Department Fund | Ridgefield, CT | $11,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Amos House Inc | Danbury, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Building One Community Corp | Stamford, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind Inc | Yorktown Hts, NY | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2023 |
| Molly Ann Tango Memorial Foundation Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $10,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Renewal House Inc | Danbury, CT | $9,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Global Peht Corp | Cos Cob, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Special Olympics | Ridgefield, CT | $7,500 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Land Conservancy of Ridgefield Inc | Ridgefield, CT | $7,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Off the Streets Inc | Bethel, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Ridgefield Independent Film Festival Incorporated | Redding, CT | $6,000 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Interfaith AIDS Ministry of Greater Danbury Inc | Danbury, CT | $5,100 | 1 | 1 | 2024 |
| Arc Food Pantry | Danbury, CT | $5,000 | 1 | 1 | 2020 |
34 of 54 (63%) 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.
- Ridgefield Social Services
SUPPORT FOR ORGANIZATION PROGRAMMING
What kind of organizations it funds
By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 37 of 54 recipients we could match to a registered organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses -- 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 18 | $151,000 | $6,250 |
| 2021 | 25 | $320,300 | $10,000 |
| 2022 | 2 | $22,000 | $11,000 |
| 2023 | 39 | $847,600 | $20,000 |
| 2024 | 47 | $691,120 | $11,400 |
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
97% of its giving went to organizations in Connecticut. Community foundations and federated funds are usually the most geographically bounded funders there are -- being outside the footprint is normally disqualifying in a way that a weak programme fit is not.
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Funders that support the same organizations
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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 $12,000 -- 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.
Where these numbers come from
Everything above is taken from Ridgefield Thrift Shop Inc's own Form 990 Schedule I filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 5 returns (tax years 2020-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred or estimated.
Address of record on the latest return: 21B Governor Street, Ridgefield, CT, 06877.
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