Funding search · EIN 251916056 · Fairfield, CT

The Driesman Charitable Trust

Name: The Driesman Charitable Trust grants, 2022–2025
Creator: PaperOrbit
License: https://www.irs.gov/charities-non-profits/exempt-organization-public-disclosure-and-availability-requirements

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

86
grants reported: $118,812
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $1,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 2022–2025. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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Temple Israel4 grants · $23,079
Block Island Medical Center4 grants · $20,201
Temple Shalom2 grants · $9,855
Temple Emanu-El2 grants · $5,371
Homes With Hope4 grants · $4,000
Temple Sholom1 grant · $3,760
Birthright Israel Foundation2 grants · $3,600
Black River Good Neighbor2 grants · $3,600
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island2 grants · $3,600
Fairfield Museum4 grants · $3,101

Giving over time

$36,725

2022

$23,965

2023

$26,880

2024

$31,242

2025

Grant history

All 86 reported grants, largest first.

$11,925
Temple Israel · Westport, CT · 2025
Unrestricted
$6,600
Block Island Medical Center · New Shoreham, RI · 2025
Unrestricted
$5,800
Temple Shalom · Greenwich, CT · 2024
Unrestricted
$5,250
Block Island Medical Center · New Shoreham, RI · 2023
Unrestricted
$5,214
Temple Israel · Westport, CT · 2024
Unrestricted
$4,895
Block Island Medical Center · New Shoreham, RI · 2024
Unrestricted
$4,371
Temple Emanu-El · New York, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$4,140
Temple Israel · Westport, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$4,055
Temple Shalom · Greenwich, CT · 2025
Unrestricted
$3,760
Temple Sholom · Greenwich, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$3,456
Block Island Medical Center · New Shoreham, RI · 2022
Unrestricted
$2,591
Ct Against Gun Violence · New Fairfield, CT · 2024
Unrestricted
$2,500
Block Island Club · New Shoreham, RI · 2023
Unrestricted
$2,500
Quick Center for the Arts · Fairfield, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,800
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island · Providence, RI · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,800
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,800
Black River Good Neighbor · Ludlow, VT · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,800
Temple Israel · Westport, CT · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,800
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Rhode Island · Providence, RI · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,800
Birthright Israel Foundation · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,800
Black River Good Neighbor · Ludlow, VT · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,800
Bridgeport Rescue Mission · Bridgeport, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,800
Donors Choose · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,800
No Kid Hungry · Washington, DC · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,080
Helping Hands of Block Island · New Shoreham, RI · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,080
Helping Hands of Block Island · New Shoreham, RI · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,080
Uja Jcc Greenwich · Greenwich, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Homes With Hope · Westport, CT · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Kolbe Cathedral · Bridgeport, CT · 2025
Unrestricted
$1,000
Ct Humane Society · Westport, CT · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Fairfield Museum · Fairfield, CT · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Homes With Hope · Westport, CT · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Temple Emanu-El · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$1,000
Fairfield Museum · Fairfield, CT · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Homes With Hope · Westport, CT · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Kolbe Cathedral · Bridgeport, CT · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Operation Hope · Fairfield, CT · 2023
Unrestricted
$1,000
Connecticut Food Bank · Wallingford, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Fairfield Museum · Fairfield, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Feeding America · Elmsford, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Homes With Hope · Westport, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Kolbe Cathedral · Bridgeport, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Operation Hope · Fairfield, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$1,000
Planned Parenthood · New York, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$950
Block Island Historical Society · New Shoreham, RI · 2024
Unrestricted
$540
Congregation Sons and Daughters of Ruth · New Shoreham, RI · 2025
Unrestricted
$540
Congregation Sons and Daughters of Ruth · New Shoreham, RI · 2024
Unrestricted
$540
Ct Womens Hall of Fame · New Haven, CT · 2024
Unrestricted
$540
Wakeman Boys & Girls Club · Bridgeport, CT · 2024
Unrestricted
$540
Congregation Sons and Daughters of Ruth · New Shoreham, RI · 2023
Unrestricted
$540
Ct Womens Hall of Fame · New Haven, CT · 2023
Unrestricted
$540
Congregation Sons and Daughters of Ruth · New Shoreham, RI · 2022
Unrestricted
$540
Ct Womens Hall of Fame · New Haven, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$530
Wakeman Boys & Girls Club · Bridgeport, CT · 2025
Unrestricted
$520
Environmental Defense Fund · Washington, DC · 2023
Unrestricted
$500
Wikimedia Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2025
Unrestricted
$500
Beardsley Zoo · Bridgeport, CT · 2024
Unrestricted
$500
Merrick Jewish Center · Merrick, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$500
Block Island Maritime Institute · Block Island, RI · 2023
Unrestricted
$500
Beardsley Zoo · Bridgeport, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$500
Merrick Jewish Center · Merrick, NY · 2022
Unrestricted
$400
Block Island Maritime Institute · Block Island, RI · 2024
Unrestricted
$400
Block Island Historical Society · New Shoreham, RI · 2022
Unrestricted
$360
Block Island Historical Society · New Shoreham, RI · 2023
Unrestricted
$360
Leap · New Haven, CT · 2023
Unrestricted
$322
Leap · New Haven, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$260
Pledgeling Foundation · San Francisco, CA · 2023
Unrestricted
$258
The Women'S Zionist Organization of America · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$250
Block Island Historical Society · New Shoreham, RI · 2025
Unrestricted
$160
New York Botanical Garden · Bronx, NY · 2025
Unrestricted
$150
Goldilocks Farm Sanctuary · Southport, CT · 2024
Unrestricted
$110
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024
Unrestricted
$110
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$108
Cancercare · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$107
Ct Humane Society · Westport, CT · 2022
Unrestricted
$101
Fairfield Museum · Fairfield, CT · 2025
Unrestricted
$100
Stepping Stones Museum · Norwalk, CT · 2025
Unrestricted
$100
Dartmouth Health & Geisel School of Medicine · Lebanon, NH · 2024
Unrestricted
$100
Block Island Fire & Rescue · New Shoreham, RI · 2023
Unrestricted
$100
Block Island Residents Association · Block Island, RI · 2023
Unrestricted
$100
The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson'S Research · New York, NY · 2023
Unrestricted
$60
Special Olympics Connecticut · Hamden, CT · 2025
Unrestricted
$54
Shatterproof · Norwalk, CT · 2023
Unrestricted
$50
Southeast Lighthouse Foundation · Block Island, RI · 2025
Unrestricted
$50
Earthplace · Westport, CT · 2024
Unrestricted
$25
Friends of the Island Free Library · Block Island, RI · 2023
Unrestricted

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Source: IRS Form 990-PF, Part XV, as filed by the foundation. These are grants already paid — a record of what this funder backs, not an open call.