Connecticut · Private foundation
The Driesman Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $31k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 32%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $530
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $11,925
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 26
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $687k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 32% of the organizations The Driesman Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 16% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $4k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 15 | $31k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 19 | $27k | 32% |
| FY2023 | 25 | $24k | 44% |
| FY2022 | 26 | $37k | 23% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $30k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 21 | $25k | 71% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $29k | 63% |
| FY2018 | 14 | $23k | 93% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Temple Israel Westport Inc | $31,659 | 8 | n/a |
| Hearts Around the World Inc | $18,800 | 2 | 54% |
| Temple Sholom Inc | $17,135 | 5 | n/a |
| Bridgeport Rescue Mission Inc | $10,080 | 3 | 0% |
| Homes With Hope | $7,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Donorschooseorg | $6,400 | 4 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $5,940 | 4 | 0% |
| Operation Hope of Fairfield Inc | $5,600 | 4 | 0% |
| Temple Emanu-El | $5,371 | 2 | n/a |
| Pink Aid Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 46 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($77k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Driesman Charitable Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 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: Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc · The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation · The Near and Far Association Inc · The Bessemer Giving Fund · Newman's Own Foundation · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Jewish Communal Fund · The Stewart & Constance Greenfield Foundation · The Nesi Family Foundation · Robert & Dale Rosen Charitable Foundation Tr U/A 8/05/92 · The Charlotte Foundation Inc · The Aiello Charitable Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About The Driesman Charitable Trust
- How much does The Driesman Charitable Trust give?
- The Driesman Charitable Trust reported 15 grants totaling $31,242 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 26 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Driesman Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Religion (27%), Health (21%), International (11%).
- Who are The Driesman Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Temple Israel Westport Inc ($32k), Hearts Around the World Inc ($19k), Temple Sholom Inc ($17k).
- Does The Driesman Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 32% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Driesman Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Driesman Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Fairfield County's Community Foundation Inc, The James & Mary Ellen Marpe Family Foundation, The Near and Far Association Inc.
- Where is The Driesman Charitable Trust based?
- The Driesman Charitable Trust is based in CT.
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