North Carolina · Private foundation
Puffin Foundation West Ltd
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.1M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 79
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 76%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 79
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 7
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 76% of the organizations Puffin Foundation West Ltd funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.2M 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 | 18 | $1.1M | 17% |
| FY2023 | 79 | $2.3M | 76% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $89k | 41% |
| FY2021 | 54 | $164k | 56% |
| FY2020 | 53 | $165k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $152k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $192k | 0% |
| FY2017 | 1 | $198k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dolphin Research Center Inc | $371,000 | 3 | 3% |
| North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation | $320,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park & Eco-Center Inc | $285,708 | 3 | 9% |
| Duke University | $275,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Unc Health Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Anne Frank Center USA Inc | $238,000 | 4 | 35% |
| North Carolina Symphony Society Inc | $185,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Interfaith Association of Central Ohio | $153,500 | 5 | n/a |
| Welltone New Music Inc | $131,000 | 5 | 89% |
| International Center for the Preservation of Wild Animals Inc | $125,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 121 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 37 recipients with no EIN on record ($728k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Puffin Foundation West Ltd supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 4 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 103 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: Greater Columbus Arts Council · Columbus Foundation · L Brands Foundation · Ingram-White Castle Foundation · Cardinal Health Foundation · American Electric Power Foundation · United Way of Central Ohio Inc · The Reinberger Foundation · Tom E Dailey Foundation Inc · Encova Foundation of Ohio · Arts Midwest Incorporated · Faye Kaplan Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
About Puffin Foundation West Ltd
- How much does Puffin Foundation West Ltd give?
- Puffin Foundation West Ltd reported 18 grants totaling $1,084,408 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 79 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Puffin Foundation West Ltd fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (48%), Animals (22%), Education (8%).
- Who are Puffin Foundation West Ltd's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Dolphin Research Center Inc ($371k), North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation ($320k), Sylvan Heights Waterfowl Park & Eco-Center Inc ($286k).
- Does Puffin Foundation West Ltd fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 76% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Puffin Foundation West Ltd accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Puffin Foundation West Ltd?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Columbus Arts Council, Columbus Foundation, L Brands Foundation.
- Where is Puffin Foundation West Ltd based?
- Puffin Foundation West Ltd is based in NC.
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