Pennsylvania · Private foundation
Plainfield Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $559k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 57
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 48
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 63%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $445k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,482
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 28 to 61
- FY2018 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Total assets, FY2024
- $12M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 63% of the organizations Plainfield Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 43% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $219k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 43 | $445k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 48 | $507k | 63% |
| FY2020 | 61 | $588k | 48% |
| FY2019 | 61 | $552k | 66% |
| FY2018 | 28 | $576k | 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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| WCDB Foundation Inc Attn Ken Slutsky Tax Exempt Inst Grp | $202,296 | 1 | n/a |
| United Family and Childrens Society | $182,092 | 5 | 5% |
| Plainfield Symphony Society Inc | $156,121 | 4 | 45% |
| Second Street Youth Center Inc | $117,200 | 5 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Union County Inc | $73,803 | 4 | 1% |
| The Wardlaw-Hartridge School | $70,000 | 5 | 0% |
| El Centro Hispanoamericano | $65,000 | 4 | 6% |
| Plainfield Arts Council | $60,905 | 2 | n/a |
| Home First - Interfaith Housing and Family Services | $55,000 | 3 | 7% |
| Neighborhood House Association | $54,100 | 5 | 1% |
Show all 60 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 84 recipients with no EIN on record ($1.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Plainfield Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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: The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Ej Grassmann Trust · Community Foundation of New Jersey · Columbia Bank Foundation · Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation Inc · Investors Foundation Inc · The Westfield Foundation · Union Foundation · The Provident Bank Foundation · Citizens Philanthropic Foundation Inc · Pseg Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater Union County % Julienne Cherry
How this is measured
About Plainfield Foundation
- How much does Plainfield Foundation give?
- Plainfield Foundation reported 57 itemized grants totaling $444,953, out of $558,642 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 61 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2022.
- What does Plainfield Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Education (9%), Arts & Culture (9%).
- Who are Plainfield Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: WCDB Foundation Inc Attn Ken Slutsky Tax Exempt Inst Grp ($202k), United Family and Childrens Society ($182k), Plainfield Symphony Society Inc ($156k).
- Does Plainfield Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 63% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Plainfield Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Plainfield Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Hyde and Watson Foundation, Ej Grassmann Trust, Community Foundation of New Jersey.
- Where is Plainfield Foundation based?
- Plainfield Foundation is based in PA.
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