Connecticut · Private foundation
The Paul Rand 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.
- $375k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 17
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 18%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $120,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 17
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 18% of the organizations The Paul Rand Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $44k 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 | 13 | $375k | 15% |
| FY2024 | 17 | $340k | 18% |
| FY2023 | 17 | $310k | 24% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $360k | 43% |
| FY2021 | 9 | $310k | 33% |
| FY2020 | 9 | $290k | 56% |
| FY2019 | 4 | $60k | 100% |
| FY2018 | 3 | $1k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut Foodshare Inc | $285,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Feeding America | $195,000 | 5 | 0% |
| God's Love We Deliver Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Guilford Community Fund | $83,000 | 6 | 14% |
| Visual Arts Foundation Inc | $80,000 | 7 | 4% |
| United Jewish Appeal-Federation of Jewish Philanthropies of New York Inc | $70,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Pro Publica Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Marc Lustgarten Pancreatic Cancer Foundation | $60,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Federation for Jewish Philanthropy of Upper Fairfield County | $50,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Hadassah The Women's Zionist Org of America Inc | $40,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 25 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($784k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Paul Rand Charitable Trust 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: Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Paul Rand Charitable Trust
- How much does The Paul Rand Charitable Trust give?
- The Paul Rand Charitable Trust reported 13 grants totaling $375,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 17 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does The Paul Rand Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Food & Nutrition (30%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are The Paul Rand Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Connecticut Foodshare Inc ($285k), Feeding America ($195k), God's Love We Deliver Inc ($95k).
- Does The Paul Rand Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 18% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Paul Rand 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 Paul Rand Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc, American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program.
- Where is The Paul Rand Charitable Trust based?
- The Paul Rand Charitable Trust is based in CT.
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