New York · Private foundation
Larsen Fund
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.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 143
- Grants FY2025
- 109
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $75,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 94 to 109
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 20
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- 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 Larsen Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $95k 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 | 115 | $1.1M | 10% |
| FY2024 | 109 | $967k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 107 | $913k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 103 | $938k | 16% |
| FY2021 | 105 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2020 | 94 | $922k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 96 | $888k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.
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 College | $450,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Hotchkiss School | $254,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Children's Theatre Company and School | $213,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Hartford Stage Company Inc | $210,000 | 3 | 2% |
| North Branch Nature Center Inc | $199,500 | 7 | 3% |
| Colgate University | $197,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The University of Puget Sound | $190,000 | 7 | 0% |
| St David's Center | $183,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Literacy Partners Inc | $160,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Northside Achievement Zone | $113,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 152 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 38 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Larsen Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 139 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 loosely connected circle, clustered around a few shared anchors.
Open a dossier: The Vermont Community Foundation · National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc · Lintilhac Foundation Inc · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · Spur Community Foundation Inc · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Oakland Foundation Inc · Vermont Council on the Arts Inc · Ibm International Foundation · Boswell Family Foundation · Edward C & Ann T Roberts Foundation
How this is measured
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How do I get to Larsen Fund?
Find your warmest path to Larsen Fund through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About Larsen Fund
- How much does Larsen Fund give?
- Larsen Fund reported 143 grants totaling $1,135,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 94 and 109 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Larsen Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (28%), Arts & Culture (21%), Environment (17%).
- Who are Larsen Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Sterling College ($450k), The Hotchkiss School ($254k), Children's Theatre Company and School ($213k).
- Does Larsen Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Larsen Fund 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 Larsen Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Vermont Community Foundation, National Life Group Charitable Foundation Inc, Lintilhac Foundation Inc.
- Where is Larsen Fund based?
- Larsen Fund is based in NY.
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