2024 Projects
The Goodnow Fund provides grants for operating support and special projects to many types of organizations. For more information on The Fund, please see Our Process. In 2024, The Fund provided grants to the following organizations:
| Organization
|
Amount of Gift
|
Purpose
|
|
| Save the Children
|
$100,000
|
Childrens Emergency Fund- Haiti
|
|
| Oxfam
|
$15,000
|
Food insecurity- East Africa
|
|
| Oxfam
|
$5,000
|
Food insecurity- West Africa
|
|
| Galapagos Conservancy
|
$20,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Laurel House
|
$7,500
|
Supported education at NCC
|
|
| WNET/Thirteen
|
$5,000
|
PBS
|
|
| Connecticut Public
|
$500
|
NPR in CT
|
|
| WQXR
|
$500
|
General operating
|
|
| Hotchkiss School
|
$2,000
|
Annual Fund
|
|
| Family Centers
|
$30,000
|
Parents as Co-Educators
|
|
| Family Centers
|
$50,000
|
Specialized support groups SPS
|
|
| Doctors without Borders
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Doctors without Borders
|
$10,000
|
MSF Academy for Healthcare
|
|
| USO
|
$20,000
|
Bob Hope Legacy reading program
|
|
| Building One Community
|
$25,000
|
Immigration Legal services
|
|
| Person to Person
|
$15,000
|
Emergency Services
|
|
| Horizons at CT State Norwalk
|
$12,000
|
General operating and rowing elective
|
|
| Horizons at GFA
|
$5,000
|
College scholarships
|
|
| Americares
|
$30,000
|
Free clinic- Stamford
|
|
| Americares
|
$25,000
|
Humanitarian work in Ukraine
|
|
| Catholic Comm. Foundation ESD
|
$10,000
|
Scholarships for nurses
|
|
| Catholic Comm. Foundation ESD
|
$30,000
|
E-learning program Univ. Notre Dame
|
|
| St. Luke’s Church
|
$5,000
|
Stewardship
|
|
| NCC Foundation
|
$10,000
|
Student emergency fund
|
|
| Family and Children’s Agency
|
$30,000
|
Senior home care program
|
|
| Family and Children’s Agency
|
$20,000
|
Family program
|
|
| The Elm Project
|
$15,000
|
General operating
|
|
| The Fresh Air Fund
|
$25,000
|
Fresh air summer camping
|
|
| Kids in Crisis
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| DVCC
|
$3,500
|
Stamford safe house garden
|
|
| Mianus River Gorge
|
$2,500
|
College internship program
|
|
| North Salem Bridle Trails Assoc.
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
|
| North Salem Open Land Foundation
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Westchester Land Trust
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
|
| East Norwalk Blue
|
$2,000
|
CT Pumpout operation
|
|
| Center for Wellbeing
|
$7,500
|
General operating
|
|
| Live Girl
|
$7,500
|
She Works program
|
|
| The Summer Camp
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Serious Fun Children’s Network
|
$10,000
|
9 camps in the US
|
|
| Flying Cloud Institute
|
$1,000
|
General operating
|
|
| New Marlborough Fire & Rescue
|
$1,000
|
General operating
|
|
| New Marlborough 5 Village News
|
$200
|
General operating
|
|
| New Marlborough Cultural Council
|
$200
|
General operating
|
|
| New Marlborough Library
|
$250
|
Electronic audio books history and bio
|
|
| New Marlborough Meeting House
|
$250
|
Patron membership
|
|
| Connecticut College
|
$2,000
|
Annual Fund
|
|
| Miss Porter’s School
|
$2,000
|
Annual Fund
|
|
| New Canaan Country School
|
$1,000
|
Annual Fund
|
|
| Princeton University
|
$2,000
|
Annual Fund
|
|
| Rhode Island School of Design
|
$2,000
|
Annual Fund
|
|
| University of Virginia
|
$5,000
|
Access UVA scholarships
|
|
| Boys and Girls Village
|
$15,000
|
General operating
|
|
| English Learner Support Services
|
$7,500
|
General operating
|
|
| Silver Source
|
$10,000
|
Individual Assistance emergency fund
|
|
| Children’s Learning Centers of FC
|
$15,000
|
General operating
|
|
| University of Vermont
|
$2,000
|
Food Pantry
|
|
| United Church of Rowayton
|
$3,000
|
Roof replacement project
|
|
| Darien Library
|
$10,000
|
Electronic audio books
|
|
| Darien Community Association
|
$2,000
|
Scholarships
|
|
| Darien Community Association
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
|
| At Home in Darien
|
$3,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Tiny Miracles Foundation
|
$5,000
|
Financial assistance program
|
|
| A Better Chance Darien
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Darien Book Aid
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Darien EMS Post 53
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Darien YMCA
|
$1,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Museum of Darien
|
$500
|
General operating
|
|
| Darien Fire Department
|
$500
|
General operating
|
|
| Friends of Selleck’s Woods
|
$500
|
General operating
|
|
| Darien Nature Center
|
$500
|
General operating
|
|
| Wee Burn Caddie Scholarship Fund
|
$500
|
General operating
|
|
| Darien Police Association
|
$300
|
General operating
|
|
| Mercy Learning Center
|
$15,000
|
Literacy and Life Skills program
|
|
| Mercy Learning Center
|
$5,000
|
Early Childhood Education program
|
|
| Let’s Get Ready
|
$10,000
|
CT program with CSCU
|
|
| Darien Land Trust
|
$1,000
|
Legacy partners
|
|
| The Seeing Eye
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind
|
$15,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Guiding Eyes for the Blind
|
$15,000
|
Wellness and Training Center
|
|
| Cure Alzheimer’s Fund
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Wildlife Conservation Society
|
$35,000
|
Elephants, big cats, whales
|
|
| Nuclear Threat Initiative
|
$25,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Eisenhower Foundation
|
$25,000
|
IKE Education building
|
|
| Environmental Defense Fund
|
$25,000
|
General operating
|
|
| CRIS Radio
|
$8,400
|
General and Stamford Hospital
|
|
| Breast Cancer Alliance
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Gentle Giants Draft Horse
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Lifesavers Wild Horse Rescue
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Live and Let Live Farm
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| HORSE of CT
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Rising Starr Horse Rescue
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Endeavor Therapeutic Horsemanship
|
$2,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Horizons CT State Norwalk
|
$2,000
|
Rowing program
|
|
| Spirit of America
|
$30,000
|
Ukraine
|
|
| Alzheimer’s Drug Discovery Found.
|
$500,000
|
Alzheimer’s research
|
|
| Americares
|
$20,000
|
Helene and Milton relief work
|
|
| Waterside School
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Waterside School
|
$10,000
|
College Success scholarship fund
|
|
| Teach for America
|
$15,000
|
Ct general operating
|
|
| Future Five
|
$10,000
|
CT State Norwalk program
|
|
| Child Advocates of SW CT
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Norwalk Housing Auth. Scholarships
|
$10,000
|
Scholarships
|
|
| National WW II Museum
|
$10,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Per Scholas
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Camfed USA
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Women’s Mentoring Network
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Stamford Public Education Found.
|
$5,000
|
Pilot algebra program in middle school
|
|
| National Trust for Hist. Preservation
|
$5,000
|
Civil War battlefields in VA
|
|
| Yosemite Conservancy
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Yellowstone Forever
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Center for Large Landscape Conserv.
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| National Parks Conservation Assoc.
|
$5,000
|
General operating
|
|
| Mather Homestead
|
$2,500
|
General operating
|
|
| Norwalk Art Space
|
$500
|
General operating
|
|
| Total Gifts | $1,606,100 |
