The Great Give 2025 raises record-breaking $4.2 Million for Greater New Haven nonprofits

New Haven, Conn. (May 9, 2025) – The Great Give raised $4,199,085 over 36 hours for 543 nonprofit organizations serving Greater New Haven, surpassing $4 million for the first time in the 16-year history of the giving event. 

While the prizes and matches concluded at 8:00 p.m. on Thursday, May 8, donations are being accepted until 8 a.m. on Monday, May 12. 

 SEE FULL RESULTS

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven hosts the annual online giving event and community-wide celebration of local nonprofits. From the giving site thegreatgive.org, you can search by nonprofit categories including the arts, children and youth, basic needs, health, and animals. This year’s Great Give was held May 7-8 and featured $227,600 in matching pools and random prize draws sponsored by businesses and organizations throughout the region as well as The Community Foundation and the Valley Community Foundation. 

“We are thrilled by the extraordinary generosity in Greater New Haven. This is a moment that demands urgency, and our community responded with record-breaking support,” said The Community Foundation and President & CEO Karen DuBois-Walton. “Local nonprofits are essential to the health and wellbeing of our community  and this year’s Great Give shows how highly their work is valued.” 

For the second year in a row, Integrated Refugee and Resettlement Services (IRIS) received the highest amount in donations.  

"There are no words that capture our gratitude to the greater New Haven community for the outpouring of support we've received during The Great Give.  As we prepare to welcome several hundred of the 12,000 refugees and Afghan allies who are now, finally, about to be processed for travel, we know that we can make them feel truly at home in Connecticut.  IRIS means community, and community means hope,” said IRIS Executive Director Maggie Mitchell Salem.  "I also recognize that all nonprofits are hurting right now.   We don't operate in a vacuum or silo.  When the sector suffers, as it is now, those we serve suffer too.  I hope other nonprofits also set new records for giving and donors."

The Great Give is open to any nonprofit providing programs and services in the 20 towns served by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. Now in its 16th year, the event has evolved into an important way for organizations of all sizes to engage and expand their donor bases. Random draw prizes are awarded throughout the event to incentivize giving, and most of the top fundraisers and prize winners are small organizations. 

PRIZE WINNERS

The Great Give 2025 was supported by multiple sponsors contributing cash prizes and match donations. The Community Foundation provided a $100,000 pool for a match to every nonprofit receiving a donation based on the number of donors per organization. The Valley Community Foundation provided $25,000 in matches and prizes to participating Valley-serving nonprofits.  

The Bank of America Charitable Foundation offered $5,000 to match donations to arts organizations during a “Power Hour.” 

The Black Futures Fund of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven provided $15,000 in random-draw prizes for Black-led and Black-serving nonprofits.

Branford Rotary Club awarded $1,000 to the Branford-based organization returning to The Great Give with the greatest percentage increase in the number of unique donors.

The Jewish Foundation of Greater New Haven awarded two $1,800 prizes to inspire giving to the organizations working in housing and homelessness and youth enrichment. 

The Konopacke Fund of The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven provided a matching pool of $10,000 to inspire giving to independent, nonprofit animal shelters.

The Madison Community Foundation offered two $500 prizes for Madison-based organizations.

The NewAlliance Foundation provided a $10,000 matching pool for boosting donations for organizations promoting literacy.

The Progreso Latino Fund provided a $5,000 match pool for organizations that have Latine representation in the executive leadership, serve the Latine community.

Tzedakah House, the insurance agency with heart, provided a $5,400 match pool to inspire giving to its client organizations.

Yale School of Management’s Net Impact group provided a $250 prize to organizations with a budget size under $500,000.

Donors interested in supporting nonprofits that serve Greater New Haven beyond The Great Give’s 36-hour event are invited to visit www.givegreater.org, an online year-round resource for local giving provided by The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven. It is a database of local nonprofit organizations providing services in The Community Foundation’s region. Many nonprofits listed on the site are participants in The Great Give; on the site, donors can search by interest area or name to more a nonprofit’s programs, management, and governance.

About The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven

The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven’s mission is to inspire, support, inform, listen to and collaborate with the people and organizations of Greater New Haven to build an ever more connected, inclusive, equitable and philanthropic community.  Established in 1928, The Foundation is one of the oldest and largest community foundations in the U.S. Generations of donors past and present have built the Foundation’s permanent charitable endowment, which serves 20 towns in Greater New Haven. The Foundation operates under a strategic plan to expand opportunity and equity throughout our region. For more information about The Foundation visit www.cfgnh.org or follow @cfgnh on facebook and twitter.

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Matthew Higbee
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The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven
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