New York · Public charity
The Posse Foundation Inc
The posse foundation, founded in 1989, identifies public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes. The foundation extends to these students the opportunity to pursue personal and academic excellence by placing them in supportive,…
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 19
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $2.3M
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 8 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 15
- Total assets, FY2024
- $189M
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations The Posse Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 48% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 52% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $600k 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 | 19 | $2.3M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 12 | $1.3M | 50% |
| FY2021 | 13 | $2.2M | 46% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $625k | 13% |
| FY2019 | 8 | $625k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 16 | $1.4M | 19% |
| FY2017 | 13 | $1.2M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Case Western Reserve University | $675,000 | 7 | 0% |
| California Institute of the Arts | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas A&M University | $500,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Davidson College | $500,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lehigh University | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Villanova University | $400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $375,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | $375,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cornell College | $350,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lewis & Clark College | $350,000 | 3 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Case Western Reserve University | $675,000 | 7 | 0% |
| California Institute of the Arts | $500,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Texas A&M University | $500,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Davidson College | $500,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lehigh University | $500,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Villanova University | $400,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $375,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Illinois Wesleyan University | $375,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Cornell College | $350,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lewis & Clark College | $350,000 | 3 | 0% |
| William & Mary | $350,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Molloy University | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The University of Puget Sound | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The George Washington University | $300,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Regents of the University of Michigan | $300,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Trustees of Boston University | $250,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Rhodes College | $250,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Bard College | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Rutgers the State University | $200,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Macalester College | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Pomona College | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Bryn Mawr College | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Trustees of Purdue University | $200,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Franklin & Marshall College | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| President and Fellows of Middlebury College | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| St Olaf College | $200,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Wisconsin Madison | $200,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Vanderbilt University | $200,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University of North Carolina School of the Arts | $200,000 | 3 | n/a |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $200,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Rector & Visitors of the University of Virginia | $100,000 | 2 | n/a |
| President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Hobart and William Smith Colleges | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Board of Trustees of Whitman College | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Posse Foundation Inc 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: The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About The Posse Foundation Inc
- How much does The Posse Foundation Inc give?
- The Posse Foundation Inc reported 19 itemized grants totaling $2,300,000, out of $2,877,608 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 8 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does The Posse Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (87%), Arts & Culture (7%), Youth Development (3%).
- Who are The Posse Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Case Western Reserve University ($675k), California Institute of the Arts ($500k), Texas A&M University ($500k).
- Does The Posse Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Posse Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Ayco Charitable Foundation, Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is The Posse Foundation Inc based?
- The Posse Foundation Inc is based in NY.
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