· Private foundation
Prior Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
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 · $11k
- $10k–50k5 grants · $60k
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Northern Light Blue Hill Hospital | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $20,000 |
| Hartford Intl University | $10,000 |
| VI Montessori School | $10,000 |
| Blue Hill Heritage Trust | $10,000 |
| SRMC Foundation | $10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $2,500 |
| Antilles School | $1,559 |
| The Hudson Review | $1,500 |
| Hewbrew Congregation of St Thomas | $1,400 |
| For His Children | $1,030 |
| George Stevens Academy | $1,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $1,000 |
| VI Montessori School | $500 |
| For His Children | $500 |
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 (FY17–20, $8k) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 9%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
87 repeat relationships: 11 still active in FY2025, 76 since wound down; 2 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, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
KNEISEL HALL5× · 2017–2022 · $317k · revenue +260%- MBMY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC6× · 2017–2022 · $272k · revenue +54%
- CWCoral World Ocean and Reef Initiative Inc3× · 2020–2024 · $234k · revenue +879% · 97% of their budget
Funded once
UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2017 · $250k · revenue +145%- SPSaraha Project Corpone grant, 2020 · $175k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2018 · $135k
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.
The Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) is a world-renowned center for biological discovery and training that is notably affiliated with more than 60 Nobel Prize winners. Research is conducted by full-time faculty as well as hundreds of the…
Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.
The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
The mission of mit is to advance knowledge and educate students in science, technology, and other areas of scholarship that will best serve the nation and the world in the 21st century.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To advocate for policy changes by governments and corporations in order to preserve ocean life and return the oceans to their former abundance.
Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
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How this is measured
77 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2026, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 77 of the 184 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 THE BLUE HILL MEMORIAL HOSPITAL NORTHERN LIGHT BLUE HILL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds KNEISEL HALL ↗
- Who funds MY BROTHERS WORKSHOP INC ↗
- Who funds UNC HEALTH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds Coral World Ocean and Reef Initiative Inc ↗
- Who funds Trustees of Tufts College ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY FOR RELIGION AND PEACE ↗
- Who funds THE FORUM INC ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds Emory University ↗
- Who funds ANTILLES SCHOOL INC ↗
- Who funds Humane Society of St Thomas ↗
- Who funds TRUSTEES OF THE COLLEGE OF THE HOLY CROSS ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF RESERVATIONS ↗
- Who funds THE JACKSON LABORATORY ↗
- Who funds NEW ISRAEL FUND ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF THE VIRGIN ISLANDS ↗
- Who funds BLUE HILL HERITAGE TRUST ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE HIGH LINE INC ↗
- Who funds ABRAHAM PATH INITIATIVE INC ↗
- Who funds Jobs for America's Graduates 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: Community Foundation of the Virgin Islands Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Becton Family Foundation Sheila Heatter Trustee · The Clements Family Charitable Trust · Laurence B Flood Foundation Inc · Lawrence Family Foundation · The Martin Foundation · Elmina B Sewall Foundation · The Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation · JMP Foundation Inc · The Thomas B Stanley Jr and Ruth B Stanley Family Foundation Inc · Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Prior Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Prior Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Mill River Collaborative Inc: 100% of income from government
- Mid Atlantic Arts Inc: 66% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Trustees of Tufts College: 13% of income from government
- World Ocean School Inc: 4% of income from government
- The Trustees of Reservations: 2% of income from government
- Oxfam-America Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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