· Private foundation
Putnam Foundation
Its FY2024 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 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
How this is measured
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k86 grants · $181k
- $10k–50k25 grants · $511k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $718k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Colonial Theatre Capital Campaign | $200,000 |
| NEGEF | $85,000 |
| NHCF Asahel & Thankful Putnam Fund COTAH | $74,000 |
| NHCF Asahel & Thankful Putnam Fund COTAH | $72,000 |
| NHCF Asahel & Thankful Putnam Fund COTAH | $72,000 |
| 350Vermont | $65,000 |
| MacDowell | $50,000 |
| NH Charitable Foundation | $50,000 |
| Trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Church in NH | $50,000 |
| 350NH | $40,000 |
| Extinction Rebellion--Boston | $40,000 |
| Church of Jesus Christ of LDS | $38,000 |
| Monadnock United Way, 2023 Grant | $35,000 |
| Maine Climate Action Now | $25,000 |
| Cheshire Health Foundation | $25,000 |
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 (FY17–21) land where the poverty rate runs at 9%, against an area that typically sits at 6%. 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 +30% since the first grant, against +3% for those funded once.
48 repeat relationships: 37 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 66 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, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $497k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- 3V350 VERMONT INC3× · 2022–2024 · $137k · revenue +18%
- FOFRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC3× · 2022–2024 · $35k · revenue +30%
ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM INC3× · 2022–2024 · $30k · revenue +83%
Funded once
- CTColonial Theatreone grant, 2021 · $400k
- CTColonial Theatre Capital Campaign--FINALone grant, 2023 · $400k
- TCTHE COLONIAL THEATREone grant, 2020 · $300k · revenue -71%
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 organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Ceres is a nonprofit advocacy organization working to accelerate the transition to a cleaner, more just, and resilient world. through education and research, we make the business case for action on the most pressing sustainability…
Our mission is to ensure that the people of greater boston benefit from a vibrant, resilient, and inclusive waterfront, harbor, and islands; these spaces are equitable, accessible, and adapted to climate change; and to ensure our public,…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
To provide exceptional healthcare services in a safe and trustful environment through the expertise, committment, and compassion of our family of caregivers.
To cultivate and develop an expansive collection of trees, gardens, and plants for all to explore, enjoy and study; and to provide through education and stewardship, a greener, healthier, more beautiful environment.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Rogue Climate's mission is to empower Southern Oregon communities most impacted by climate change including low-income, rural, youth, seniors & communities of color, to win climate justice by organizing for clean energy, sustainable jobs &…
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
The mission of Midcoast Conservancy is to protect vital lands and waters on a scale that matters and to inspire wonder and action on behalf of all species and the Earth.
How this is measured
84 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. 84 of the 267 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
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
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 COLONIAL THEATRE ↗
- Who funds New Hampshire Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds 350 VERMONT INC ↗
- Who funds NEW ENGLAND GRASSROOTS ENVIRONMENT FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MARIAN AND EDWARD MACDOWELL INC ↗
- Who funds Cheshire Health Foundation ↗
- Who funds FRIENDS OF THE PUBLIC GARDEN INC ↗
- Who funds ISABELLA STEWART GARDNER MUSEUM 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: 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
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Putnam Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Putnam Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
How this is measured
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