Connecticut · Private foundation
Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc
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.
- $451k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2025
- 62
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $47,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 62 to 68
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.7M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 12% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $50k 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 | 61 | $442k | 20% |
| FY2024 | 62 | $414k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 68 | $402k | 12% |
| FY2022 | 67 | $405k | 18% |
| FY2021 | 63 | $329k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 67 | $368k | 7% |
| FY2019 | 67 | $350k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 67 | $326k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metropolitan Opera Association Inc | $275,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Fessenden School | $178,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Stratford Hall | $100,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Woodberry Forest School | $97,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Collegiate School | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Virginia Museum of Fine Arts | $75,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Sweet Briar Institute | $75,000 | 7 | 0% |
| University of Denver | $68,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Golf Fights Cancer Inc | $60,000 | 6 | 1% |
| St Mark's School of Southborough Inc | $54,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 104 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($614k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
About Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc
- How much does Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc give?
- Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc reported 63 grants totaling $450,750 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 62 and 68 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Arts & Culture (22%), Health (12%).
- Who are Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Metropolitan Opera Association Inc ($275k), The Fessenden School ($178k), Stratford Hall ($100k).
- Does Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc 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 Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Community Foundation Inc, Richard S Reynolds Foundation, Herndon Foundation.
- Where is Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc based?
- Marie G Dennett Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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