Connecticut · Private foundation
J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2024
- 84
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 52 to 84
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $20M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 29% of the organizations J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 18% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $171k 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 | 85 | $1.1M | 27% |
| FY2023 | 84 | $973k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 71 | $1.1M | 37% |
| FY2021 | 60 | $1.0M | 58% |
| FY2020 | 52 | $923k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Recenter Race & Equity in Education Inc | $110,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Charter Oak Amateur Boxing Academy and Youth Dev Program Inc | $95,000 | 3 | 29% |
| Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc | $80,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Community Partners in Action Inc | $78,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Compass Youth Collaborative | $75,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Love146 Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Second Chance Re-Entry Initiative Program | $75,000 | 3 | 22% |
| Forge City Works Inc | $75,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Knox Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 1% |
| The Artists Collective Inc | $75,000 | 3 | 5% |
Show all 136 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 24 recipients with no EIN on record ($605k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 128 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: Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · The Betty Knox Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · United Way Inc United Way of Cent & Ne Connecticut · William Caspar Graustein Memorial Fund · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · The Fund for Greater Hartford Inc · American Savings Foundation Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc
- How much does J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc give?
- J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc reported 85 grants totaling $1,057,825 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 52 and 84 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (14%), Education (13%).
- Who are J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Recenter Race & Equity in Education Inc ($110k), Charter Oak Amateur Boxing Academy and Youth Dev Program Inc ($95k), Big Brothers Big Sisters of Connecticut Inc ($80k).
- Does J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hartford Foundation for Public Giving, Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc, The Betty Knox Foundation Inc.
- Where is J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc based?
- J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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