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Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.

$187k
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
18
Grants FY2024
13
Organizations funded FY2023
23%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$120,000
Organizations funded a year
13 to 17
FY2021 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
6
Total assets, FY2024
$149k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 23% of the organizations Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23
HealthHuman ServicesAnimalsArts & CultureInternationalOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving18$187k28%
FY202313$151k23%
FY202217$160k59%
FY202113$157kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$311kHealth$226kReligion$74kEducation$28kYouth Development$9kHuman Services$3kPublic Safety & Disaster$2kAnimals$1kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art$255,00041%
Real Art Ways Inc$52,50022%
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center$50,00010%
Colby-Sawyer College$27,50040%
Convent of the Sacred Heart$20,0004n/a
Breakthrough T1d$15,00030%
The Foundation for a Cure for Mitochondrial Disease Inc$15,00023%
Malta House of Care Inc$10,00011%
Harc Inc$7,00040%
Faithcare Inc$5,00011%
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What it could do for these grantees

Plus 11 recipients with no EIN on record ($178k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetWadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: $255,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetReal Art Ways Inc: $52,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetSaint Francis Hospital and Medical Center: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetColby-Sawyer College: $27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBreakthrough T1d: $15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation for a Cure for Mitochondrial Disease Inc: $15,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetMalta House of Care Inc: $10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHarc Inc: $7,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFaithcare Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSaint Mary Home Incorporated: $4,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFidelco Guide Dog Foundation Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Boys and Girls Clubs of Hartford: $1,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals: $1,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMy Sisters' Place Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: $300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLutheran World Relief Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.0% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 18.

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.

Aetna Foundation IncCT21.5× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aetna Foundation Inc · The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc · Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc · Hartford Foundation for Public Giving · The Zachs Family Foundation Inc · Sandra & Arnold Chase Family Foundation Inc · The William and Alice Mortensen Foundation · J Walton Bissell Foundation Inc · Sbm Charitable Foundation Inc · Lincoln Financial Foundation Inc · Edgemer Foundation Inc · Burton & Phyllis Hoffman Foundation Inc

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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How do I get to Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc?

Find your warmest path to Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc 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 Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc

How much does Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc give?
Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $187,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 13 and 17 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
What does Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (47%), Health (35%), Religion (11%).
Who are Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2024: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art ($255k), Real Art Ways Inc ($53k), Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center ($50k).
Does Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 23% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Oscar Frederick Peyser 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 Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Aetna Foundation Inc, The Maximilian E and Marion O Hoffman Foundation Inc, Farmington Bank Community Foundation Inc.
Where is Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc based?
Oscar Frederick Peyser Foundation Inc is based in CT.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 31 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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