Ernest And Joan Trefz Foundation
EIN 06-1485833 · files IRS 990-PF
Where it gives
By cause and by place, from its own returns.
By cause
The cause each recipient registered with the IRS
Mostly grants abroad and recipients without a US registration. Shown, never hidden.
By place
Dollars received, by the recipient's state
half the top state or more10–50%2–10%under 2%
Grants abroad and place not on file: 420 grants · $7.6m
Who it funds most
31 of its 42 grantees were funded in more than one year.
Ernest And Joan Trefz Foundation's own IRS 990-PF returns, as filed, in USD
Who funds the same organisations
Counted over its 40 largest grantees, leaving out fiscal sponsors and donor-advised funds, which share an address rather than a cause. A fact, not a partnership.
Its board and officers
From its latest return.
Form 990PF Part VIII, tax year 2024, filing 202542589349100209
Name and title as its own return lists them. No pay, no address. A photograph appears only where the person's own organisation or a free licence publishes one, credited beside it; otherwise none. Anyone can ask to be removed: hello@philanova.ai.
Its money
What it gave, held and paid, by year.
Giving by year
Its returns7 filings
| Tax year | Form | Filing | Where to read it |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | IRS 990-PF | 202642119349100124 | IRS batch file |
| 2024 | IRS 990-PF | 202542589349100209 | IRS batch file |
| 2023 | IRS 990-PF | 202422299349100727 | IRS batch file |
| 2022 | IRS 990-PF | 202302409349100000 | IRS batch file |
| 2021 | IRS 990-PF | 202202099349100220 | IRS batch file |
| 2020 | IRS 990-PF | 202102589349100645 | IRS batch file |
| 2019 | IRS Form 990, Schedule I | 202040559349100409 | IRS batch file |
An IRS batch file holds many returns; the filing number finds this one inside it.
The record as filedEvery table this page has always shown, in full.open
Ernest And Joan Trefz Foundation made 598 grants across 2020–2025, totalling $13.8m as filed.
- Grants
- 598
- Total, as filed
- $13.8m
- Years
- 2020–2025
- Filed in
- USD
Who it funds
| Organisation | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| University of Bridgeport | 6 | $3.0m |
| Norwalk Hospital Foundation | 6 | $1.0m |
| ST Vincent'S Medical Center Foundation | 6 | $811.7k |
| Make A Wish Foundation | 6 | $575.0k |
| Bridgeport Hospital Foundation | 6 | $560.0k |
| Ronald McDonald House Greater Hudson Valley | 6 | $557.0k |
| Wakemans Boys & Girls Club | 5 | $500.0k |
| Ronald McDonald House Of New Haven CT | 5 | $400.0k |
| Housatonic Community College Foundation | 6 | $300.0k |
| United Way Campaign of Coastal Fairfield County | 5 | $250.0k |
| CT Beardsley Zoo | 6 | $245.0k |
| Kids And Clay Foundation | 5 | $236.3k |
| Connecticut Central Coast YMCA | 6 | $225.0k |
| Danbury Hospital Development Fund | 6 | $225.0k |
| Sared Heart University Scholarship Fund | 5 | $225.0k |
By year
| Year | Grants | Total |
|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 92 | $2.0m |
| 2021 | 99 | $2.1m |
| 2022 | 97 | $2.3m |
| 2023 | 97 | $2.4m |
| 2024 | 104 | $2.5m |
| 2025 | 109 | $2.5m |
Where this came from
Identifier US-EIN-061485833. Register: Internal Revenue Service (US). Machine-readable: JSON.
What this page does not know
- Wrong if: a figure recovered from a subtotal is read as the sum of the recovered rows. A subtotal divides onto a whole penny whatever its parts did, so rows the per-row rule refuses are inside these figures.
- What they say they exist to do
- What each grant was for
- What they fund, by theme
- Balance sheet and financials
- Who runs it
- Whether they accept proposals
- Their own record on the register
- No website on file
- Leadership not yet identified