· Private foundation
Frederick M Peyser Jr 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Williams College | $5,000 |
| University of Vermont Foundation | $2,000 |
| Albany Law School | $1,000 |
| Charlotte Fire & Rescue Services Inc | $1,000 |
| Hamilton College | $1,000 |
| Portsmouth Abbey School | $1,000 |
| Prevent Child Abuse Vermont | $1,000 |
| ACLU of Vermont | $1,000 |
| American Cancer Society Hope Lodge | $1,000 |
| Friends of Walter Irish Senior Community Center Inc | $1,000 |
| Committee on Temporary Shelter | $500 |
| 350 VT | $500 |
| Middlebury College | $500 |
| Dana Hall School | $500 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY22–25, $2k) land where the poverty rate runs at 10%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
33 repeat relationships: 13 still active in FY2025, 20 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
Williams College7× · 2017–2025 · $26k · revenue +87%- UOUNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC4× · 2022–2025 · $6k · revenue +8%
- EWEMMA WILLARD SCHOOL3× · 2017–2021 · $5k · revenue +88%
Funded once
- WCWILLIAM COLLEGEone grant, 2021 · $7k
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTERgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $4k · revenue +48%
- HHAMILTONone grant, 2019 · $1k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Dartmouth College educates the most promising students and prepares them for a lifetime of learning and of responsible leadership, through a faculty dedicated to teaching and the creation of knowledge.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
At Roger Williams University, students are prepared to be thinkers and doers ready to solve challenging problems with innovative solutions. RWU offers robust offerings of undergraduate, graduate and professional programs across eight…
to provide a rigorous and transformative liberal arts education that prepares students to become thoughtful, engaged citizens.
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
New england law/boston dedicates itself to preparing students to be successful lawyers and leaders in the public and private sectors through integrated practical, theoretical and ethical education of the highest caliber and to contributing…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Vermont public informs, educates, and entertains through public service journalism and enlightening content rooted in vermont. our storytelling enriches lives and fosters community connection and understanding.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 47 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds Williams College ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Hamilton College ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT AND STATE AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EMMA WILLARD SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds ALBANY LAW SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds DANA HALL SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT MEDICAL CENTER ↗
- Who funds COMMITTEE ON TEMPORARY SHELTER INC ↗
- Who funds PREVENT CHILD ABUSE VERMONT ↗
- Who funds Literacy Network of South Berkshire Inc ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION LAW FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CHARLOTTE FIRE AND RESCUE SERVICES INC ↗
- Who funds Friends of the Walter Irish Senior Community Center Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Middlebury College ↗
- Who funds Peace and Justice Center ↗
- Who funds 350 VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds BERKSHIRE PULSE INC ↗
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: Ge Aerospace Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Frederick M Peyser Jr Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Frederick M Peyser Jr Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Prevent Child Abuse Vermont: 58% of income from government
- Committee On Temporary Shelter Inc: 52% of income from government
- Peace and Justice Center: 41% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Middlebury College: 1% of income from government
- Berkshire Pulse Inc: 1% of income from government
- The University of Vermont Medical Center: 1% of income from government
- Williams College: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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