Connecticut · Private foundation
Carol L Sirot Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $115k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 16
- Grants FY2024
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $3,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 13% of the organizations Carol L Sirot Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $115k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $50k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $110k | 21% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $112k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $90k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $85k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $86k | 50% |
| FY2017 | 25 | $90k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bateman Horne Center of Excellence | $138,000 | 6 | 2% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $73,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Open Medicine Foundation | $63,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Leap | $46,000 | 7 | n/a |
| The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/A Long Wharf Theatre | $43,200 | 5 | 0% |
| Yale University | $30,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Hartford Stage Company Inc | $21,750 | 6 | 0% |
| Goodspeed Opera House Foundation Inc | $16,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Theaterworks Inc | $15,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Shoreline Village Ct | $6,250 | 7 | 4% |
Show all 27 grantees
Plus 30 recipients with no EIN on record ($255k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Carol L Sirot Foundation supplied at peak.
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How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Newalliance Foundation Inc · Connecticut Humanities Council Inc · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Louis F & Mary a Tagliatela Family Foundation · Eder Family Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Roslyn Milstein Meyer and Jerome Meyer Foundation R&J Meyer Trustees · The Guilford Foundation Inc · Joe & Cindy Goldberg Family Foundation Inc · Seedlings Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving
How this is measured
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About Carol L Sirot Foundation
- How much does Carol L Sirot Foundation give?
- Carol L Sirot Foundation reported 16 grants totaling $115,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Carol L Sirot Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (38%), Arts & Culture (25%), Civil Rights (13%).
- Who are Carol L Sirot Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Bateman Horne Center of Excellence ($138k), Anti-Defamation League ($73k), Open Medicine Foundation ($63k).
- Does Carol L Sirot Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Carol L Sirot Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Carol L Sirot Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Newalliance Foundation Inc, Connecticut Humanities Council Inc, The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven.
- Where is Carol L Sirot Foundation based?
- Carol L Sirot Foundation is based in CT.
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