Massachusetts · Private foundation
Joseph Persky 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.
- $310k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 30
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 3%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $54,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 34
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 3% of the organizations Joseph Persky Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k 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 | 31 | $241k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 30 | $239k | 3% |
| FY2023 | 31 | $195k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 34 | $231k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 30 | $199k | 10% |
| FY2020 | 28 | $161k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc | $96,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Worcester Jewish Community Center Inc | $93,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Music Worcester Inc | $77,500 | 6 | 2% |
| Jewish Healthcare Center Inc | $76,500 | 6 | 0% |
| The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc | $75,000 | 6 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Anti-Defamation League | $67,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Worcester County Food Bank Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Association for Autism and Neurodiversity Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bancroft School | $33,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($369k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Joseph Persky 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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Melvin S Cutler Charitable Foundation · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · The C Jean & Myles McDonough Charitable Foundation · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable Trusta Molloy & F Russellco-Trustees · Hoche-Scofield Foundation-Equity · Wyman Gordon
How this is measured
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About Joseph Persky Foundation
- How much does Joseph Persky Foundation give?
- Joseph Persky Foundation reported 33 grants totaling $309,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 34 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joseph Persky Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (36%), Arts & Culture (22%), Health (12%).
- Who are Joseph Persky Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: United Way of Central Massachusetts Inc ($96k), Worcester Jewish Community Center Inc ($93k), Music Worcester Inc ($78k).
- Does Joseph Persky Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 3% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joseph Persky 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 Joseph Persky Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, Melvin S Cutler Charitable Foundation, Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation.
- Where is Joseph Persky Foundation based?
- Joseph Persky Foundation is based in MA.
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