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We Stand With Christ Inc

Bridgeport, CT · EIN 82-3779115. Reported 63 grants totalling $23.2M to 34 organizations across tax years 2020-2023, on Form 990 Schedule I.

34organizations funded
$29,147median reported grant
$23.2Mgranted, 2020-2023
33%of grantees funded again the next year
55%of dollars to its largest recipient

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:

  1. 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.
  2. How spread out its giving is. 34 distinct organizations, with 55% of the dollars going to the largest single recipient. That is concentrated. Most of the money has a settled destination, and the remainder is what is realistically in play.
  3. How much its list changes. 33% of one year's grantees are funded again the next, across 3 year-to-year transitions. That is below the 57% median for grantmaking charities, and well below the 67% private foundations manage. A list that turns over this much is one a newcomer can realistically join.

How big are its grants?

The median reported grant is $29,147. Half of what it reported fell between $9,648 and $234,053; the smallest was $5,054 and the largest $9,735,772. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong organization.

Schedule I only reports grants over $5,000. Form 990 requires a charity to list recipients it paid more than that and lets it omit the rest, so every grant-size figure on this page describes the grants it reported, not all of them. Its real median is lower and its real recipient count is higher. This is also why these numbers cannot be compared with the private-foundation figures elsewhere on this site -- Form 990-PF has no reporting floor, so the two are different populations rather than two samples of one.
$5,000 - $10,000
16 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
13 grants
$25,000 - $50,000
9 grants
$50,000 - $100,000
5 grants
$100,000 - $250,000
5 grants
$250,000 Or More
15 grants

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.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
St Aloysius Church CorpNew Canaan, CT$12.7M332023
St Catherine of Siena and St Agnes Parish CorpRiverside, CT$2,509,601112021
Bridgeport Roman Catholic Diocesan CorporationShelton, CT$2,294,424222021
Foundations in Education IncShelton, CT$938,862332023
Foundations in Faith IncNorwalk, CT$785,409332023
Foundations in Charity Inc$702,892442023
St Pauls Roman Catholic ChurchGreenwich, CT$656,086222023
St Cecilia-St Gabriel Parish CorpStamford, CT$466,060112020
Parish of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception AparecidaBethel, CT$396,280222022
St Ladislaus Hungarian ChurchNorwalk, CT$307,345222021
St Pius X CorporationFairfield, CT$299,948222022
St Marys CorporationRidgefield, CT$243,945332022
Saint Michael Roman Catholic Church CorporationGreenwich, CT$208,374332022
The St Jude Roman Catholic Church CorporationMonroe, CT$191,545112020
Holy Family and St Emery Parish CorporationFairfield, CT$92,746112020
Saint Matthews Roman Catholic Church CorporationNorwalk, CT$60,022222023
St Roch Catholic ChurchGreenwich, CT$55,845332023
Saint Marys Roman Catholic ChurchGreenwich, CT$55,592222022
St Roses Churh NewtownNewtown, CT$55,392332023
The Church of Saint AnthonyFairfield, CT$35,577112020
St Marys Roman Catholic Church CorpBethel, CT$32,232332023
Our Lady of Grace CorporationStratford, CT$29,147112020
Church of the AssumptionWestport, CT$18,479222022
St Marguerite Roman Catholic ChurchBrookfield, CT$12,350112023
St Catherine of Siena Roman Catholic ChurchTrumbull, CT$12,339222023
St Francis of AssassiWeston, CT$10,444222022
St Gregory the Great Roman Catholic ChurchDanbury, CT$10,315112022
Saint Leos Catholic Church CorpStamford, CT$9,648112021
Saint John Parish Darien$7,196112022
Stjohns Catholic ChurchStamford, CT$6,993112021
St Philips Roman Catholic Church CorporationNorwalk, CT$6,885112021
The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Church CorporationStamford, CT$6,278112021
Church of Our Lady of the Assumption CorpFairfield, CT$5,355112021
Our Lady of Fatima Roman Catholic Church CorpWilton, CT$5,261112020

19 of 34 (56%) received money in more than one year over the 4 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 kind of organizations it funds

By each recipient's own IRS classification, for the 1 of 34 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.

Philanthropy & Grantmaking
1 org

Giving by year

Tax yearGrants reportedTotalMedian grant
202021$3,561,630$92,746
202118$7,049,839$62,175
202213$9,997,735$10,315
202311$2,629,321$14,324

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

New Canaan, CT
$12.7M
Shelton, CT
$3.2M
Riverside, CT
$2.5M
Norwalk, CT
$1.2M
Greenwich, CT
$976K
Stamford, CT
$489K
Fairfield, CT
$434K
Bethel, CT
$429K

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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 the strongest signal available 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 Fund20 shared recipientsDonor Advised Charitable Giving Inc16 shared recipientsNational Philanthropic Trust10 shared recipientsFoundations in Faith Inc9 shared recipientsVanguard Charitable Endowment Program8 shared recipientsMorgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc7 shared recipients

How to approach this grantmaker

  1. 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.
  2. Check you are its size. The median reported grant is $29,147 -- and because grants under $5,000 need not be reported, it very likely writes smaller cheques than this page can see.
  3. Check you are in its geography. Its giving concentrates in Connecticut.
  4. 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 We Stand With Christ 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: 238 Jewett Ave, Bridgeport, CT, 06606.

EIN 82-3779115 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Form 990 is published about a year after the tax year it covers. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this organization has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next.

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