Connecticut · Private foundation
Jesse & Dorothy Hartman 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.
- $101k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 9
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $277k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 | 6 | $101k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $83k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 9 | $81k | 56% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $61k | 20% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $63k | 14% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $33k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $56k | 44% |
| FY2018 | 6 | $92k | 67% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 76% |
| Redford Center Inc | $58,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Way of the Rain Inc | $53,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Sundance Institute | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Hunter College Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Downtown Community Television Center Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Poetry Society of America | $30,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Marian and Edward Macdowell Inc | $18,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New DramatistsInc | $16,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Mount Sinai Health System Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival Inc | $120,000 | 2 | 76% |
| Redford Center Inc | $58,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Way of the Rain Inc | $53,000 | 4 | 9% |
| Sundance Institute | $50,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Hunter College Foundation Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Downtown Community Television Center Inc | $40,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Poetry Society of America | $30,500 | 7 | 1% |
| Marian and Edward Macdowell Inc | $18,000 | 2 | 0% |
| New DramatistsInc | $16,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Mount Sinai Health System Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Eugene O'Neill Memorial Theater Center Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| An Claidheamh Soluis Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Rochelle Fund for Educational Excellence | $1,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Musical Theater Works International Co | $1,500 | 1 | n/a |
| Surprise Lake Camp | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($194k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 13 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 Ford Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation
- How much does Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation give?
- Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation reported 6 grants totaling $100,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 9 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (75%), Education (14%), Environment (9%).
- Who are Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Palm Beach Shakespeare Festival Inc ($120k), Redford Center Inc ($59k), The Way of the Rain Inc ($53k).
- Does Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Jesse & Dorothy Hartman 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 Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ford Foundation, Jewish Communal Fund, National Philanthropic Trust.
- Where is Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation based?
- Jesse & Dorothy Hartman Foundation is based in CT.
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