Connecticut · Private foundation
General William Mayer Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $96k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 36
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 11%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $800
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 26 to 40
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 13
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 11% of the organizations General William Mayer Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $29k 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 | 35 | $95k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 36 | $113k | 11% |
| FY2023 | 34 | $103k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 35 | $78k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 40 | $118k | 25% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $35k | 10% |
| FY2019 | 34 | $112k | 26% |
| FY2018 | 26 | $72k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert C Parker School | $94,865 | 8 | 1% |
| Chill Foundation | $60,330 | 6 | 1% |
| The Westerly Land Trust | $60,000 | 6 | 2% |
| New England College | $49,100 | 8 | 0% |
| Access Opportunity | $34,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Pine Point School Inc | $27,900 | 8 | 0% |
| East Woods School Inc | $27,300 | 8 | 0% |
| The Heimerdinger Foundation Inc | $23,550 | 8 | 2% |
| Justice Dance Performance Project Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $18,550 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 49 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($127k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget General William Mayer 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: Kitchings Family Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Joe C Davis Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Ibm International Foundation · The Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Citizens Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Eastern Bank Foundation
How this is measured
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About General William Mayer Foundation
- How much does General William Mayer Foundation give?
- General William Mayer Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $96,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 26 and 40 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does General William Mayer Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (45%), Environment (11%), Youth Development (11%).
- Who are General William Mayer Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Robert C Parker School ($95k), Chill Foundation ($60k), The Westerly Land Trust ($60k).
- Does General William Mayer Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does General William Mayer Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as General William Mayer Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Kitchings Family Foundation, Ge Aerospace Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is General William Mayer Foundation based?
- General William Mayer Foundation is based in CT.
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