New York · Private foundation
The Penobscot Fund
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $150k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2024
- 3
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 3 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $1.4M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations The Penobscot Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 3 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2023 | 3 | $150k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 3 | $150k | 67% |
| FY2020 | 10 | $193k | 60% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $146k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 22 | $111k | 64% |
| FY2017 | 14 | $69k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Share Our Strength | $180,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Good Plus Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $63,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Achroma Corporation | $30,000 | 3 | 18% |
| Red Hook Initiative | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Hot Bread Kitchen Ltd | $27,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Central Texas Food Bank Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Keep Austin Fed | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Neighbors Together Corporation | $20,000 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 35 grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($98k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Penobscot Fund 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: Eugene M Lang Foundation · The New York Community Trust · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Verizon Foundation · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Network for Good · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Endowment Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About The Penobscot Fund
- How much does The Penobscot Fund give?
- The Penobscot Fund reported 3 grants totaling $150,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 3 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does The Penobscot Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Food & Nutrition (35%), Human Services (18%), Civil Rights (16%).
- Who are The Penobscot Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Share Our Strength ($180k), The Center for Reproductive Rights Inc ($150k), Good Plus Foundation Inc ($150k).
- Does The Penobscot Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Penobscot Fund 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 Penobscot Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eugene M Lang Foundation, The New York Community Trust, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is The Penobscot Fund based?
- The Penobscot Fund is based in NY.
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