Connecticut · Private foundation
Persbacker 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.
- $162k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 17
- Grants FY2025
- 18
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 6%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 20
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.5M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 6% of the organizations Persbacker Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 16 | $162k | 6% |
| FY2024 | 18 | $161k | 6% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $161k | 11% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $164k | 10% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $153k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 20 | $149k | 65% |
| FY2019 | 18 | $144k | 33% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $110k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Coast Cultural Center Inc | $340,000 | 8 | 13% |
| The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc | $145,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Western Connecticut Health Network Inc | $80,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Bright Holidays Inc | $75,000 | 8 | 11% |
| Angelwood Inc | $40,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Juniata College | $40,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Rvnahealth Inc | $30,500 | 7 | 0% |
| Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Derby Historical Society | $22,000 | 2 | 12% |
| North Florida School of Special Education Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($267k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Persbacker Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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.
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How this is measured
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About Persbacker Foundation Inc
- How much does Persbacker Foundation Inc give?
- Persbacker Foundation Inc reported 17 grants totaling $162,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 20 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Persbacker Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (39%), Education (21%), Health (20%).
- Who are Persbacker Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: First Coast Cultural Center Inc ($340k), The University of Connecticut Foundation Inc ($145k), Western Connecticut Health Network Inc ($80k).
- Does Persbacker Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 6% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Persbacker 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 Persbacker Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jean Widmark and Richard Widmark Foundation Inc, The Lawrence J Portell and Natalie D Portell Foundation Inc, The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc.
- Where is Persbacker Foundation Inc based?
- Persbacker Foundation Inc is based in CT.
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