Connecticut · Private foundation
Driscoll Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $479k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $35,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 7
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 43% of the organizations Driscoll Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 37% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $130k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 10 | $479k | 50% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $355k | 43% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $445k | 43% |
| FY2022 | 7 | $378k | 57% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $325k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 3 | $225k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge in America | $325,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Business Executives for National Security | $285,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Tesseract Research Center Inc | $210,000 | 2 | 5% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $209,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Alliance to End Hunger | $180,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Utah Film Center | $118,000 | 2 | 1% |
| We the Veterans Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Truman Center for National Policy | $60,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Democracy Matters Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The American Independent Foundation | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cambridge in America | $325,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Business Executives for National Security | $285,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Tesseract Research Center Inc | $210,000 | 2 | 5% |
| The Aspen Institute Inc | $209,400 | 3 | 0% |
| Alliance to End Hunger | $180,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Utah Film Center | $118,000 | 2 | 1% |
| We the Veterans Foundation | $100,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Truman Center for National Policy | $60,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Democracy Matters Foundation | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The American Independent Foundation | $45,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Sundance Institute | $35,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Td Jakes Foundation | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Quell Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 1% |
| The New Press Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Gilman School Incorporated | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Breakthrough T1d | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Progressive Change Institute | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($525k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Driscoll Family 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · New Venture Fund · The San Francisco Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc
How this is measured
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About Driscoll Family Foundation
- How much does Driscoll Family Foundation give?
- Driscoll Family Foundation reported 10 grants totaling $479,400 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 7 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Driscoll Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (36%), Social Science (16%), International (13%).
- Who are Driscoll Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Cambridge in America ($325k), Business Executives for National Security ($285k), Tesseract Research Center Inc ($210k).
- Does Driscoll Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Driscoll Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Driscoll Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Jewish Communal Fund, Silicon Valley Community Foundation.
- Where is Driscoll Family Foundation based?
- Driscoll Family Foundation is based in CT.
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