New Jersey · Private foundation
Palmer Walbridge 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.
- $513k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 20
- Grants FY2025
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 10%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 31
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 10% of the organizations Palmer Walbridge Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k 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 | 20 | $513k | 0% |
| FY2024 | 20 | $450k | 10% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $443k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 31 | $567k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 25 | $518k | 20% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $468k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $417k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences | $570,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc | $463,000 | 7 | 1% |
| Boothbay Region Land Trust | $227,156 | 7 | 5% |
| The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor | $188,920 | 7 | 11% |
| Maine College of Art and Design | $165,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Boothbay Harbor Waterfront Preservation | $118,150 | 5 | 3% |
| Harbor Theater | $103,500 | 6 | 14% |
| Boothbay Region Community Resource Council | $98,000 | 6 | 5% |
| Boothbay Sea and Science Center | $92,650 | 7 | 9% |
| The Miquon School | $84,500 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 3 recipients with no EIN on record ($195k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Palmer Walbridge 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: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Mildred H McEvoy Foundation · Schacknow Family Foundation Inc · Wilson Wilde Family Foundation Inc · Leach Elizabeth Ann Pfdn · Susan & George Craig Family Foundation Inc · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · A R and Marylouise Tandy Foundation · Saco & Biddeford Savings Charitable Foundation · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · The Halcyon Foundation · Chester & Muriel Dawes Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Palmer Walbridge Foundation
- How much does Palmer Walbridge Foundation give?
- Palmer Walbridge Foundation reported 20 grants totaling $513,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 31 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Palmer Walbridge Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (30%), Science & Tech (20%), Arts & Culture (15%).
- Who are Palmer Walbridge Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences ($570k), Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens Inc ($463k), Boothbay Region Land Trust ($227k).
- Does Palmer Walbridge Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 10% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Palmer Walbridge 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 Palmer Walbridge Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Mildred H McEvoy Foundation, Schacknow Family Foundation Inc.
- Where is Palmer Walbridge Foundation based?
- Palmer Walbridge Foundation is based in NJ.
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