Funding search · EIN 061519008 · Fairfield, CT

Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation

Name: Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation 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.

58
grants reported: $1.8M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $4,250
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.

Full IRS filings ↗How this is built Report an error

Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

Syracuse University4 grants · $1.4M
Westport Country Playhouse3 grants · $100,000
Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation4 grants · $61,000
Southport Congregational Church4 grants · $36,240
New York City Center3 grants · $30,000
Ciri2 grants · $30,000
Fairfield Museum2 grants · $22,000
Ct Institute for Refugees and Immigrants3 grants · $16,000
Horizons - Sacred Heart University2 grants · $15,000
City Center1 grant · $10,000

Giving over time

$415,000

2022

$502,000

2023

$416,600

2024

$442,640

2025

Grant history

All 58 reported grants, largest first.

$400,000
Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2023
General operating support
$365,000
Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2025
General operating support
$340,000
Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2024
General operating support
$289,000
Syracuse University · Syracuse, NY · 2022
General operating support
$45,000
Westport Country Playhouse · Westport, CT · 2023
General operating support
$45,000
Westport Country Playhouse · Westport, CT · 2022
General operating support
$30,000
Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation · Fayetteville, NY · 2024
General operating support
$20,000
Ciri · Anchorage, AK · 2025
General operating support
$16,000
Southport Congregational Church · Southport, CT · 2023
General operating support
$15,000
Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation · Fayetteville, NY · 2022
General operating support
$12,000
Fairfield Museum · Fairfield, CT · 2025
General operating support
$11,140
Southport Congregational Church · Southport, CT · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation · Fayetteville, NY · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
New York City Center · New York, NY · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Westport Country Playhouse · Westport, CT · 2025
General operating support
$10,000
Ciri · Anchorage, AK · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
Horizons - Sacred Heart University · Fairfield, CT · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
New York City Center · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$10,000
City Center · New York, NY · 2023
General operating support
$10,000
Fairfield University · Fairfield, CT · 2023
General operating support
$10,000
Ct Institute for Refugees and Immigrants · Bridgeport, CT · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Fairfield Museum · Fairfield, CT · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$10,000
New York City Center · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$8,000
Southport Congregational Church · Southport, CT · 2022
General operating support
$6,000
Jim & Juli Boeheim Foundation · Fayetteville, NY · 2023
General operating support
$5,000
Ct Institute for Refugees and Immigrants · Bridgeport, CT · 2024
General operating support
$5,000
Horizons - Sacred Heart University · Fairfield, CT · 2023
General operating support
$5,000
Connecticut Audubon Society · Fairfield, CT · 2022
General operating support
$3,500
Aspetuck Land Trust · Westport, CT · 2022
General operating support
$3,000
Pequot Library · Southport, CT · 2024
General operating support
$3,000
Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center · Bronx, NY · 2023
General operating support
$2,500
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2024
General operating support
$2,000
Americares · Stamford, CT · 2022
General operating support
$2,000
Inspire · Southport, CT · 2022
General operating support
$1,500
Metropolitan Museum of Art · New York, NY · 2022
General operating support
$1,100
Southport Congregational Church · Southport, CT · 2024
General operating support
$1,000
Aspetuck Land Trust · Westport, CT · 2025
General operating support
$1,000
Pequot Library · Southport, CT · 2025
General operating support
$1,000
Sasquanaug Association for Southport Improvement · Southport, CT · 2025
General operating support
$1,000
Wildlife in Crisis · Westport, CT · 2025
General operating support
$1,000
Americares · Stamford, CT · 2024
General operating support
$1,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
General operating support
$1,000
Fairfield Police Scholarship Fund · Fairfield, CT · 2024
General operating support
$1,000
Sasquanaug Association for Southport Improvement · Southport, CT · 2024
General operating support
$1,000
Wildlife in Crisis · Westport, CT · 2024
General operating support
$1,000
Aspetuck Land Trust · Westport, CT · 2023
General operating support
$1,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2023
General operating support
$1,000
Ct Institute for Refugees and Immigrants · Bridgeport, CT · 2023
General operating support
$1,000
Fairfield Police Scholarship Fund · Fairfield, CT · 2023
General operating support
$1,000
Pequot Library · Southport, CT · 2023
General operating support
$1,000
Quick Ctr for the Arts · Fairfield, CT · 2023
General operating support
$1,000
Wildlife in Crisis · Westport, CT · 2023
General operating support
$1,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2022
General operating support
$1,000
Fairfield Police Scholarship Fund · Fairfield, CT · 2022
General operating support
$1,000
Pequot Library · Southport, CT · 2022
General operating support
$1,000
Sasquanaug Association for Southport Improvement · Southport, CT · 2022
General operating support
$500
Bridgeport Ladies Charitable Society · Southport, CT · 2025
General operating support

Who else funds this kind of work

Same state

Yale University1,336 grants · $494.6M
Steven & Alexandra Cohen Foundation581 grants · $363.4M
Dalio Family Fund502 grants · $220.1M

Similar grant size

Enterprise Holdings Foundation30,880 grants · $360.4M
State Employees Credit Union Foundation7,131 grants · $63.0M
Seattle Foundation14,012 grants · $457.3M

Grants already paid are the record; PaperOrbit reads your paper and finds the funders whose record matches it — then explains why.

Search funders like this one

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.