· 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $27k
- $10k–50k8 grants · $135k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC | $45,000 |
| NUVANCE HEALTH FKA WESTERN CONNECTICUT HEALTH NETWORK | $20,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION - HUSKY EXCELLENCE FUND | $15,000 |
| NORTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION | $15,000 |
| BRIGHT HOLIDAYS INC | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION - SCHOOL OF FINE ARTS | $10,000 |
| ANGELWOOD INC | $10,000 |
| BIT OF FAITH RANCH OF PONTE VEDRA | $10,000 |
| THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION - ENTREPRENURIAL BOOT CAMP | $5,000 |
| JUNIATA COLLEGE | $5,000 |
| ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION | $3,000 |
| HUNT HILL FARM TRUST INC | $3,000 |
| REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT | $3,000 |
| ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT | $3,000 |
| MERWINSVILLE HOTEL RESTORATION INC | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $140k) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 29% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 5% of Persbacker Foundation Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +11% since the first grant, against +1% for those funded once.
27 repeat relationships: 15 still active in FY2025, 12 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- TUTHE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC8× · 2017–2025 · $145k · revenue +79%
- BHBRIGHT HOLIDAYS INC8× · 2017–2025 · $75k · revenue +11%
- JCJUNIATA COLLEGE8× · 2017–2025 · $40k · revenue +27%
Funded once
- HAHUGS ACROSS THE COUNTY INCgraduatedone grant, 2019 · $10k · revenue +294%
- TBTHE BRAIN TUMOR NETWORK INCone grant, 2022 · $5k · revenue +1%
- ATACCESS TENNIS INCone grant, 2019 · $3k · revenue -100% · 67% of their budget
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Visiting Nurse Services of Connecticut, Inc., (VNS) a nonprofit health care provider, finds its mission in the provision of quality home health and hospice services to individuals, families and the communities it serves. VNS is committed…
Connecticut community care, inc provides person-centered care coordination and transition services for elders and individuals with disabilities to help ensure they can live safely in the place they choose to live. people served experience…
To provide quality, innovative care that enriches the lives of our patients.
The Universal Health Care Foundation's mission is to be a catalyst that engages people and communities in shaping a democratic health system that provides universal access to quality health care and promotes health in Connecticut. The…
Our mission is to advance, support and promote programs and activities that fundamentally improve the health status of the people of connecticut.
The association is the leader in providing services to and advocating for, the state's providers of long-term, subacute, rehabilitative, and assisted living care. additionally, the association serves as a clearing house for information…
Improve the health of every person in our community through the efficient delivery of excellent, innovative and compassionate care.
To foster collaborations to ensure a highly educated, diverse and sustainable nursing workforce to support the healthcare needs of connecticut residents.
We support access to and delivery of patient-centered services in your home and across our community in the northwest corner of connecticut. we strive to strengthen that support as we have done since 1904.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustfulenvironment through the expertise, commitment and compassion of ourfamily of caregivers.
How this is measured
29 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 29 of the 42 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds FIRST COAST CULTURAL CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Western Connecticut Health Network Inc ↗
- Who funds BRIGHT HOLIDAYS INC ↗
- Who funds ANGELWOOD INC ↗
- Who funds JUNIATA COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds RVNAHEALTH INC ↗
- Who funds REGIONAL HOSPICE AND HOME CARE OF WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds DERBY HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds NORTH FLORIDA SCHOOL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY AMBULANCE ASSOCIATION INC ↗
- Who funds ROXBURY VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT ↗
- Who funds CONNECTING THRU MUSIC INC ↗
- Who funds True Blue Navy Families Benefactors Inc ↗
- Who funds AFTER SCHOOL ARTS PROGRAM INC ↗
- Who funds St Gerard Campus ↗
- Who funds HUGS ACROSS THE COUNTY INC ↗
- Who funds HUNT HILL FARM TRUST ↗
- Who funds DE ETTE HOLDEN CUMMER MUSEUM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds THE BRAIN TUMOR NETWORK INC ↗
- Who funds THE RIDGEFIELD PLAYHOUSE FOR MOVIES AND THE PERFORMING ARTS INC ↗
- Who funds MERWINSVILLE HOTEL RESTORATION INC ↗
- Who funds ACCESS TENNIS INC ↗
- Who funds CAMELLAS CUPBOARD INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds EPIC CURE INC ↗
- Who funds KENT COMMUNITY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF COASTAL AND WESTERN CONNECTICUT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW MILFORD COMMUNITY AMBULANCE INC ↗
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: Jean Widmark and Richard Widmark Foundation Inc · The Lawrence J Portell and Natalie D Portell Foundation Inc · The Community Foundation for Northeast Florida Inc · Kermit and Patricia Adler Foundation Inc · Union Savings Bank Foundation Inc · The Connecticut Community Foundation · Publix Super Markets Charities Inc · Savings Bank of Danbury Foundation Inc · United Way of Northeast Florida Inc · Synchrony Foundation · Pga Tour Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Persbacker Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Persbacker Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Regional Hospice and Home Care of Western Connecticut Inc: 17% of income from government
- United Way of Coastal and Western Connecticut Inc: 11% of income from government
- Rvnahealth Inc: 2% of income from government
- After School Arts Program Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Ridgefield Playhouse for Movies and the Performing Arts Inc: 1% of income from government
How this is measured
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