Connecticut · Private foundation
Joyce Hergenhan Private 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.
- $443k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2025
- 14
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $365,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 17
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $3.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 7% of the organizations Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 2% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 98% 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 | 12 | $443k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 14 | $417k | 7% |
| FY2023 | 15 | $502k | 33% |
| FY2022 | 17 | $415k | 6% |
| FY2021 | 16 | $533k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $407k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Syracuse University | $1,854,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc | $225,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Westport Country Playhouse Inc | $192,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Jim and Juli Boeheim Foundation Inc | $86,000 | 5 | 5% |
| Southport Congregational Church | $61,680 | 6 | n/a |
| New York City Center Inc | $40,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants Inc | $21,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pequot Library Association | $16,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Connecticut Audubon Society Inc | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 23 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 7 recipients with no EIN on record ($115k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 21 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · Ibm International Foundation · The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation · Newman's Own Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Southport Area Fund · Nessel Family Foundation Inc · Cannupa Foundation · Smith Richardson Foundation Inc · Fjc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
Compare Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation with peer funders
About Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation
- How much does Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation give?
- Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation reported 12 grants totaling $442,640 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 17 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (69%), Arts & Culture (12%), Health (12%).
- Who are Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Syracuse University ($1.9M), Bridgeport Hospital Foundation Inc ($225k), Westport Country Playhouse Inc ($192k).
- Does Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Joyce Hergenhan Private 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 Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, Ibm International Foundation, The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation.
- Where is Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation based?
- Joyce Hergenhan Private Foundation is based in CT.
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