Funding search · EIN 300517812 · New Canaan, CT

Mle Foundation

Name: Mle 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.

330
grants reported: $4.8M
total given: 2022–2025
filing years: $10,000
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.

What they fund

education ornithology voters challenge mary rice scholarship gallery

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Funding pattern

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Top recipients

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

New Canaan Land Trust2 grants · $360,000
First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan4 grants · $240,000
Audubon Connecticut4 grants · $180,000
Save the Sound4 grants · $160,000
American Bird Conservancy4 grants · $140,000
Hawaiian Mission House4 grants · $135,000
American Indian College4 grants · $130,000
Central Wisconsin Cultural Center4 grants · $120,000
Southwood County Historical Corporation4 grants · $105,000
Waveny Lifecare Network2 grants · $100,000

Giving over time

$958,750

2022

$1.6M

2023

$1.1M

2024

$1.2M

2025

Grant history

The 100 largest of 330 grants.

$350,000
New Canaan Land Trust · New Canaan, CT · 2023
General purpose
$80,000
Waveny Lifecare Network · New Canaan, CT · 2022
General purpose
$75,000
First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan · New Canaan, CT · 2022
General purpose
$60,000
New Canaan Town Players · New Canaan, CT · 2025
General purpose
$55,000
First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan · New Canaan, CT · 2025
General purpose
$55,000
First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan · New Canaan, CT · 2024
General purpose
$55,000
Audubon Connecticut · Greenwich, CT · 2023
General purpose
$55,000
First Presbyterian Church of New Canaan · New Canaan, CT · 2023
General purpose
$55,000
Audubon Connecticut · Greenwich, CT · 2022
General purpose
$54,500
Hawaiian Mission House · Honolulu, HI · 2023
General purpose
$51,750
Chautauqua Foundation · Chautauqua, NY · 2022
General purpose
$50,000
American Indian College · Denver, CO · 2025
General purpose
$50,000
American Indian Education Fund · Addison, TX · 2025
General purpose
$50,000
American Indian College · Denver, CO · 2024
General purpose
$50,000
American Indian Education Fund · Addison, TX · 2024
General purpose
$50,000
Lahaina Restoration Foundation · Lahaina, HI · 2023
General purpose
$48,000
Chautauqua Foundation · Chautauqua, NY · 2023
General purpose
$45,000
Stamford Symphony · Stamford, CT · 2023
General purpose
$45,000
Stamford Symphony · Stamford, CT · 2022
General purpose
$40,000
Connecticut Audubon Society · Fairfield, CT · 2025
General purpose
$40,000
Save the Sound · New Haven, CT · 2025
General purpose
$40,000
Southwood County Historical Corporation · Wisconsin Rapids, WI · 2025
General purpose
$40,000
Connecticut Audubon Society · Fairfield, CT · 2024
General purpose
$40,000
Hawaiian Mission House · Honolulu, HI · 2024
General purpose
$40,000
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardners Association · Unity, ME · 2024
General purpose
$40,000
Save the Sound · New Haven, CT · 2024
General purpose
$40,000
Save the Sound · New Haven, CT · 2023
General purpose
$40,000
Save the Sound · New Haven, CT · 2022
General purpose
$38,333
Emma Willard School · Troy, NY · 2023
General purpose
$35,000
American Bird Conservancy · The Plains, VA · 2025
General purpose
$35,000
Audubon Connecticut · Greenwich, CT · 2025
General purpose
$35,000
American Bird Conservancy · The Plains, VA · 2024
General purpose
$35,000
Audubon Connecticut · Greenwich, CT · 2024
General purpose
$35,000
American Bird Conservancy · The Plains, VA · 2023
General purpose
$35,000
American Bird Conservancy · The Plains, VA · 2022
General purpose
$33,334
Beth Israel Congregation · West Hartford, CT · 2023
General purpose
$33,333
Fair Haven Camps · Brooks, ME · 2023
General purpose
$32,500
Hawaiian Mission House · Honolulu, HI · 2025
General purpose
$30,000
Central Wisconsin Cultural Center · Wisconsin Rapids, WI · 2025
General purpose
$30,000
Fair Haven Camps · Brooks, ME · 2025
General purpose
$30,000
Maine Organic Farmers and Gardners Association · Unity, ME · 2025
General purpose
$30,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation · Madison, WI · 2025
General purpose
$30,000
Central Wisconsin Cultural Center · Wisconsin Rapids, WI · 2024
General purpose
$30,000
Central Wisconsin Cultural Center · Wisconsin Rapids, WI · 2023
General purpose
$30,000
International Order of the King'S Daughters & Sons · Chautauqua, NY · 2023
General purpose
$30,000
Central Wisconsin Cultural Center · Wisconsin Rapids, WI · 2022
General purpose
$30,000
International Order of the King'S Daughters & Sons · Chautauqua, NY · 2022
General purpose
$27,500
International Crane Foundation · Baraboo, WI · 2025
General purpose
$25,000
Rare · Arlington, VA · 2025
General purpose
$25,000
Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy · Litchfield, CT · 2025
General purpose
$25,000
Fair Haven Camps · Brooks, ME · 2024
General purpose
$25,000
International Crane Foundation · Baraboo, WI · 2024
General purpose
$25,000
Southwood County Historical Corporation · Wisconsin Rapids, WI · 2024
General purpose
$25,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation · Madison, WI · 2024
General purpose
$25,000
Franklin and Marshall · Lancaster, PA · 2023
The phillips museum gallery
$25,000
Franklin and Marshall · Lancaster, PA · 2022
The phillips museum gallery
$22,000
Northland College · Ashland, WI · 2024
Scholarship fund/mary rice challenge
$21,500
International Crane Foundation · Baraboo, WI · 2023
General purpose
$21,000
Ymca · New Canaan, CT · 2024
General purpose
$20,000
Carbone Cancer Center · Madison, WI · 2025
General purpose
$20,000
Staying Put in New Canaan · New Canaan, CT · 2025
General purpose
$20,000
Ymca · New Canaan, CT · 2025
General purpose
$20,000
Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy · Litchfield, CT · 2024
General purpose
$20,000
Staying Put in New Canaan · New Canaan, CT · 2024
General purpose
$20,000
Princeton Theological Seminary · Princeton, NJ · 2023
Funds for library
$20,000
Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy · Litchfield, CT · 2023
General purpose
$20,000
Southwood County Historical Corporation · Wisconsin Rapids, WI · 2023
General purpose
$20,000
Staying Put in New Canaan · New Canaan, CT · 2023
General purpose
$20,000
Waveny Lifecare Network · New Canaan, CT · 2023
General purpose
$20,000
Ymca · New Canaan, CT · 2023
General purpose
$20,000
Princeton Theological Seminary · Princeton, NJ · 2022
Funds for library
$20,000
Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy · Litchfield, CT · 2022
General purpose
$20,000
Southwood County Historical Corporation · Wisconsin Rapids, WI · 2022
General purpose
$20,000
Staying Put in New Canaan · New Canaan, CT · 2022
General purpose
$18,400
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University · McGuire Afb, NJ · 2025
General purpose
$18,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2025
Annual fund for the lab of ornithology
$17,500
Racine Family Ymca · Racine, WI · 2023
General purpose
$17,000
Northland College · Ashland, WI · 2023
Scholarship fund/mary rice challenge
$17,000
International Crane Foundation · Baraboo, WI · 2022
General purpose
$17,000
Northland College · Ashland, WI · 2022
Scholarship fund/mary rice challenge
$16,000
Theatre Works USA · New York, NY · 2023
General purpose
$16,000
University of Wisconsin Foundation · Madison, WI · 2023
General purpose
$16,000
Kutztown University Foundation · Kutztown, PA · 2022
General purpose
$16,000
Theatre Works USA · New York, NY · 2022
General purpose
$15,000
Harlem Academy · New York, NY · 2025
General purpose
$15,000
Horizons · New Canaan, CT · 2025
General purpose
$15,000
Norwalk Hospital Foundation · Norwalk, CT · 2025
General purpose
$15,000
Planned Parenthood of Southern New England · New Haven, CT · 2025
General purpose
$15,000
Storefront Academy Harlem · New York, NY · 2025
General purpose
$15,000
Westover School · Middlebury, CT · 2025
General purpose
$15,000
Carbone Cancer Center · Madison, WI · 2024
General purpose
$15,000
Cornell University · Ithaca, NY · 2024
Annual fund for the lab of ornithology
$15,000
Rare · Arlington, VA · 2024
General purpose
$15,000
Storefront Academy Harlem · New York, NY · 2024
General purpose
$15,000
American Indian College · Denver, CO · 2023
General purpose
$15,000
Curtain Call · Stamford, CT · 2023
General purpose
$15,000
Preservation Connecticut · Hamden, CT · 2023
General purpose
$15,000
Rare · Arlington, VA · 2023
General purpose
$15,000
American Indian College · Denver, CO · 2022
General purpose
$15,000
Curtain Call · Stamford, CT · 2022
General purpose

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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.