· Private foundation
Puffer Garnier Family Foundation Inc
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| LIBERIAN ASSISTANCE PROGRAM INC | $850 |
| EMILY DICKINSON MUSEUM | $700 |
| HOSPICE FOR THE FISHER HOME | $700 |
| AMHERST HISTORICAL SOCIETY & MUSEUM | $500 |
| SURVIVAL CENTER | $500 |
| SAFE PASSAGE | $500 |
| ST BRIGID CATHOLIC CHURCH | $400 |
| KESTREL LAND TRUST | $300 |
| AMHERST SENIOR CENTER | $300 |
| AMHERST CINEMA | $300 |
| DISTRICT ONE NEIGHORHOOD ASSOCIATION | $200 |
| ST JUDES CHILDRENS HOSPITAL | $100 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 11%, against an area that typically sits at 8%. 100% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
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 +46% since the first grant, against -47% for those funded once.
9 repeat relationships: 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 57% 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
Backed again, and grew
- TJTHE JONES LIBRARY INC5× · 2017–2023 · $2k · revenue +77%
- ACAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES4× · 2021–2024 · $2k · revenue +46%
- SCSURVIVAL CENTERS INC3× · 2017–2019 · $650 · revenue +215%
Funded once
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2019 · $200
- FOFRIENDS OF THE AMHERST SR CENTone grant, 2018 · $100
- KLKESTREL LAND TRUST INCone grant, 2018 · $100 · revenue -47%
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.
Land conservation and open space preservation
Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…
The franklin land trust works to conserve farms, forests, wildlands, and other natural resources significant to the quality of the environment, economy, and rural character of western massachusetts.
Bates is a college of the liberal arts and sciences, and is a coeducational, nonsectarian, residential college with special commitments to academic rigor, and to assuring in all of its efforts the dignity of each individual, and access to…
Kestrel land trust conserves and cares for forests, farms, and riverways in the connecticut river valley of western massachusetts while nurturing an enduring love of the land
Public lending library
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
Provides Public Library and information services to the Peacham community.
The Gardiner Library Board of Trustees operates the public library that serves the Town of Gardiner and the surrounding areas of New York State.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Bringing people together for experiences that spark creativity and innovative thinking by making inspiring educational connections among art, history, and natural science.
How this is measured
8 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. 8 of the 18 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.
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 Western Massachusetts · The Lorber Foundation · Aetna Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Puffer Garnier Family Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Puffer Garnier Family Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Safe Passage Inc: 48% of income from government
- Survival Centers Inc: 6% of income from government
- Amherst Cinema Arts Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Historic Deerfield Inc: 0% of income from government
- Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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