How much does Posner Foundation give?

Posner Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $166,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.

What does Posner Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Education (20%), Youth Development (19%).

Who are Posner Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Desert Biennial Dba Desert X ($95k), Saint Josephs Arts Foundation ($85k), The Branson School ($72k).

Does Posner Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Posner 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.

Where is Posner Foundation based?

Posner Foundation is based in DE.

Foundation Dossiers

Delaware · Private foundation

Posner 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.

$167k
Granted FY2025(still arriving): 15
Grants FY2025: 19
Organizations funded FY2024: 11%
First-time grantees FY2024

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Median grant, FY2025: $10,000
Largest grant, FY2025: $25,000
Organizations funded a year: 12 to 19; FY2018 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025: 2
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, 11% of the organizations Posner Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Arts & CultureEducationHealthHuman ServicesPhilanthropyOther

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 year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2025still arriving	14	$157k	0%
FY2024	19	$126k	11%
FY2023	18	$153k	17%
FY2022	15	$133k	20%
FY2021	14	$117k	14%
FY2020	15	$120k	33%
FY2019	13	$106k	31%
FY2018	12	$100k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.

Arts & Culture$391kEducation$210kYouth Development$197kHealth$104kHuman Services$56kHousing & Shelter$50kPhilanthropy$46kEnvironment$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Desert Biennial Dba Desert X	$94,500	8	2%
Saint Josephs Arts Foundation	$85,000	4	3%
The Branson School	$72,000	4	0%
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc	$70,750	8	0%
Museum Associates	$70,000	8	0%
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc	$68,500	8	0%
Children's Outing Association	$66,400	8	0%
Drew School	$62,500	5	0%
Coalition for Children Youth & Families Inc	$53,000	6	1%
Marin Country Day School	$52,000	7	0%

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All grantees of Posner Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Desert Biennial Dba Desert X	$94,500	8	2%
Saint Josephs Arts Foundation	$85,000	4	3%
The Branson School	$72,000	4	0%
Children's Hospital of Wisconsin Inc	$70,750	8	0%
Museum Associates	$70,000	8	0%
Boys and Girls Club of Greater Milwaukee Inc	$68,500	8	0%
Children's Outing Association	$66,400	8	0%
Drew School	$62,500	5	0%
Coalition for Children Youth & Families Inc	$53,000	6	1%
Marin Country Day School	$52,000	7	0%
Milwaukee Art Museum Inc	$51,850	6	0%
University of Wisconsin Foundation	$45,750	6	0%
Get Lit - Words Ignite Inc	$45,000	6	0%
M F Place Inc	$29,500	7	0%
Intersection for the Arts	$28,000	2	0%
Marin Montessori School	$20,500	3	0%
Hope House of Milwaukee Incorporated	$20,000	2	n/a
The Bay School of San Francisco	$15,000	3	0%
Conquer Cancer Foundation of the American Society of Clinical Oncology	$13,000	3	0%
University of California San Francisco Foundation	$10,000	1	0%
Navy Seal Foundation Inc	$7,500	2	0%
Planned Parenthood Los Angeles	$5,500	3	0%
Outfest	$5,000	1	0%
Creative Visions Foundation	$4,500	2	0%
Milwaukee Center for Children and Youth Inc	$3,000	1	1%
Marin Primary & Middle School	$2,500	1	0%
Children's Cancer Research Fund	$2,500	1	1%
White Feather Foundation	$2,000	1	1%
Israel Cancer Research Fund Inc	$2,000	1	0%
Children's Enviromental Literacy Fdn	$2,000	1	0%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 1 recipient with no EIN on record ($3k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Posner Foundation supplied at peak.

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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 29.

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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.

Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & SonomaCA18.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma · Marin Community Foundation · Baird Foundation Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Chicago Community Trust · The San Francisco Foundation · Youth Foundation Inc · Evan & Marion Helfaer Foundation · United Way of Greater Milwaukee & Waukesha County Inc · Greater Milwaukee Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bessemer Giving Fund

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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About Posner Foundation

How much does Posner Foundation give?: Posner Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $166,800 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 12 and 19 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
What does Posner Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (37%), Education (20%), Youth Development (19%).
Who are Posner Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: The Desert Biennial Dba Desert X ($95k), Saint Josephs Arts Foundation ($85k), The Branson School ($72k).
Does Posner Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2024, 11% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Posner 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 Posner Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco the Peninsula Marin & Sonoma, Marin Community Foundation, Baird Foundation Inc.
Where is Posner Foundation based?: Posner Foundation is based in DE.