Connecticut · Private foundation
Halvorsen 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.
- $35M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 22%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 28
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $365M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Halvorsen Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 96% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 4% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20M 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 | 32 | $34M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $21M | 22% |
| FY2023 | 24 | $15M | 17% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $13M | 75% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $9.3M | 78% |
| FY2020 | 7 | $7.1M | 86% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $7.5M | 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute | $13,374,000 | 6 | 51% |
| Williams College | $13,213,743 | 7 | 2% |
| The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc | $2,210,000 | 4 | 7% |
| Green Mountain Valley School Inc | $1,605,000 | 3 | 13% |
| The Rockefeller University | $1,275,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wildlife Conservation Society | $1,000,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Teachers College Columbia University | $300,000 | 3 | 0% |
| National Nordic Foundation | $145,000 | 4 | 15% |
| Museum of Modern Art | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Greens Ledge Light Preservation Society Inc | $85,000 | 3 | 6% |
Show all 28 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($73M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Halvorsen Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: The Rogers Family Foundation · The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Goodnow Fund · The Darien Foundation Inc · 522 Foundation Inc · The Roxe Foundation · The Wiggins Foundation Inc · The Weil Foundation · Viking Global Foundation Inc · Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Halvorsen Family Foundation
- How much does Halvorsen Family Foundation give?
- Halvorsen Family Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $34,502,270 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 28 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Halvorsen Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (54%), Health (16%), Philanthropy (13%).
- Who are Halvorsen Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute ($13M), Williams College ($13M), The Hospital for Special Surgery Fund Inc ($2.2M).
- Does Halvorsen Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Halvorsen 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 Halvorsen Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rogers Family Foundation, The Meredith and Whitney George Family Foundation Inc, Ibm International Foundation.
- Where is Halvorsen Family Foundation based?
- Halvorsen Family Foundation is based in CT.
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