New Hampshire · Private foundation
Putnam Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 120
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 81
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 62%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Itemized, FY2024
- $1.4M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $200,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 81
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 21
- Total assets, FY2024
- $29M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 62% of the organizations Putnam Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 60% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 40% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $792k 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 | 103 | $1.3M | 64% |
| FY2023 | 81 | $1.3M | 62% |
| FY2022 | 79 | $1.4M | 99% |
| FY2021 | 69 | $1.4M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $300k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Colonial Theatre | $300,000 | 1 | 4% |
| 350 Vermont Inc | $136,500 | 3 | 12% |
| New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc | $75,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Marian and Edward Macdowell Inc | $60,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Cheshire Health Foundation | $55,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Friends of the Public Garden Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Historical Society of Cheshire County | $27,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Dublin School Inc | $26,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Northeast Wilderness Trust Corporation | $26,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 86 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 178 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.7M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Putnam Foundation supplied at peak.
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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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Kingsbury Fund · Hoffman Family Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · National Grange Mutual Charitable Foundation Inc · Eversource Energy Foundation Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Merrill Family Charitable Foundation Inc · The Windham Foundation Inc · The Ford Family Foundation · The Roundhouse Foundation
How this is measured
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About Putnam Foundation
- How much does Putnam Foundation give?
- Putnam Foundation reported 120 itemized grants totaling $1,409,863, out of $1,633,363 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 81 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Putnam Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (17%), Philanthropy (8%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Putnam Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: The Colonial Theatre ($300k), 350 Vermont Inc ($137k), New England Grassroots Environment Fund Inc ($75k).
- Does Putnam Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 62% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Putnam Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Putnam Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, The Vermont Community Foundation, The Kingsbury Fund.
- Where is Putnam Foundation based?
- Putnam Foundation is based in NH.
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