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The Pryor Foundation

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.

$141k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
States reached
$25k
Largest
01What you fund
0175% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY20202024.

Arts & Culture$246kEducation$188kHealth$33kReligion$30kHousing & Shelter$18kCommunity Improvement$17kScience & Tech$10kFood & Nutrition$10kOther$0
02FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k7 grants · $26k
  • $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
$10,000
Median grant
7
States reached
$5.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM$25,000
Individual grant recipient$25,000
HARTFORD HOSPITAL$20,000
The HARTFORD STAGE$15,000
HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA$10,000
NECIC$10,000
GEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER$10,000
JAFFREY ANC CENTER$7,500
MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION$5,000
RENAISSANCE THEATRE$5,000
GRACE EPISCOPAL FOOD PANTRY$2,000
MANSFIELD ART CENTER$2,000
Way Finders$2,000
MID OHIO CIVIC OPERA$2,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

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Dollar for dollar, your grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of your dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Your grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%THE TOWER SCHOOL: $4k → 10%BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 16%STALBANS SCHOOL: $49k → 14%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD: $25k → 14%North End Community Improvement Collab: $15k → 15%REA OUT: $3k → 13%JAFFREY ANC CENTER: $8k → 9%MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION: $5k → 6%ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY: $5k → 10%ST ALBAN'S SCHOOL: $47k → 14%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD: $25k → 14%WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM: $25k → 11%NECIC: $10k → 15%JAFFREY CIVIC CENTER: $4k → 9%ESSEX COUNTY COMMUNITY: $4k → 10%GEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER: $10k → 14%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD: $25k → 14%HARTFORD STAGE: $25k → 11%NECIC: $8k → 15%JAFFREY CIVIC CENTER: $4k → 9%GEORGETOWN MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD: $25k → 14%WADSWORTH ATHENEUM OF ART: $25k → 11%NECIC: $7k → 15%JAFFREY CIVIC CENTER: $4k → 9%GEORGETOWN MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%PEACE NEIGHBORHOOD: $24k → 14%WADSWORTH ATHENEUM OF ART: $25k → 11%RENAISSANCE THEATRE: $5k → 15%GEORGETOWN MINISTRIES: $10k → 14%WADSWORTH ATHENEUM OF ART: $25k → 11%MANSFIELD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $20k → 11%WADSWORTH ATHENEUM OF ART: $25k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $20k → 11%The HARTFORD STAGE: $15k → 11%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $20k → 11%HARTFORD STAGE: $15k → 11%RENAISSANCE THEATRE: $5k → 15%UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD: $19k → 11%HARTFORD STAGE: $10k → 11%HARTOFRD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $23k → 11%HARTOFRD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $20k → 11%HARTOFRD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $20k → 11%HARTOFRD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $15k → 11%HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA: $10k → 11%NORTHCENTRAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION: $5k → 15%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

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MI
NY
MA
NV
OH
PA
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UT
DC
GA
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$727k · 21 repeat orgs$85k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
11

Total granted

$727k
$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+16%

Still filing today

43%
36%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationHousing & ShelterHealthCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
    4× · 2020–2023 · $79k · revenue +10%
  • HS
    HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +61%
  • HH
    Hartford Hospital
    2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +3%

Funded once

  • BS
    BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +26%
  • TT
    THE TOWER SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · $4k
  • R
    RCF
    one grant, 2020 · $3k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
University of New Haven

The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…

Education
2
Saint Anselm College

Saint anselm is a catholic, benedictine college providing all of its students a distinctive liberal arts education that incorporates opportunities for professional and career preparation. it does so in a learning community that encourages…

Education
3
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving

The hartford foundation for public giving puts philanthropy into action to create lasting solutions that result in vibrant communities within the greater hartford region. as the region's community foundation, it is a public, grantmaking…

Philanthropy
4
Hampden-Sydney College

Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.

Education
5
Wheaton College

Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…

Education
6
President and Fellows of Harvard College

Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.

Education
7
Northeast College of Health Sciences

Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.

Education
8
Western New England University

Western new england university, a comprehensive private institution with a tradition of excellence in teaching and scholarship and a commitment to service, awards undergraduate, master's, and doctoral degrees in various departments from…

Education
9
New England Conservatory of Music

New england conservatory of music (nec) educates and trains musicians of all ages from around the world.

Education
10
Heckscher Museum

Museum has a mission to create opportunties for everyone to experience art that broadens understanding of the past, fosters community connections to the present, and creates diverse possbilities for the future.

Arts & Culture
11
Williams College

Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.

Education
12
Massachusetts Higher Education Assistance Corporation

The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art and the most unlike its peers is Jaffrey Civic Center. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

04the grantee network

17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 20172025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 17 of the 39 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
17/17
Grantees still filing
12/17
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Individual grant recipient — $124,361 · OtherIndividual grant recipientWADSWORTH ATHENEUM OF ART — $100,000 · OtherWADSWORTH ATHENEUM OF ARTPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF C — $96,716 · OtherPROTESTANT EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL FOUNDATION OF THE D OF CIndividual grant recipient — $77,500 · OtherIndividual grant recipientGEORGETOWN MINISTRIES — $30,000 · OtherGEORGETOWN MINISTRIESNECIC — $25,000 · Other+19 more — $97,000 · Other+19 moreHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC — $65,000 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD STAGE C…WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 · Arts & CultureWADSWORTH ATHENE…JAFFREY CIVIC CENTER — $11,000 · Arts & CultureJAFFREY CIVIC CE…HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $10,000 · Arts & CultureHARTFORD SYMPHON…BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $5,000 · Arts & CultureMansfield Fine Arts Guild Inc — $5,000 · Arts & CultureUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $79,279 · EducationUNIVERSITY …+1 more — $2,000 · EducationHartford Hospital — $30,000 · HealthUS PAIN FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 · HealthNORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC — $17,000 · Community ImprovementHARMONY HOUSE INC — $6,000 · Housing & ShelterWAY FINDERS INC — $2,000 · Housing & ShelterOHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC — $2,000 · Crime & Legal
Other$550,577Arts & Culture$121,000Education$81,279Health$32,500Community Improvement$17,000Housing & Shelter$8,000Crime & Legal$2,000

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD — $79,279 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC — $65,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHartford Hospital — $30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART — $25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC — $17,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetJAFFREY CIVIC CENTER — $11,000 over 3y, 3.7% of budgetGEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER — $10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetHARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN — $10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION — $7,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHARMONY HOUSE INC — $6,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC — $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMansfield Fine Arts Guild Inc — $5,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUS PAIN FOUNDATION INC — $2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSWARTHMORE COLLEGE — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAY FINDERS INC — $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD
  • Who funds HARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC
  • Who funds Hartford Hospital
  • Who funds WADSWORTH ATHENEUM MUSEUM OF ART
  • Who funds NORTH END COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT COLLABORATIVE INC
  • Who funds JAFFREY CIVIC CENTER
  • Who funds GEORGETOWN MINISTRY CENTER
  • Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN
  • Who funds NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION
  • Who funds HARMONY HOUSE INC
  • Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC
  • Who funds Mansfield Fine Arts Guild Inc
  • Who funds US PAIN FOUNDATION INC
  • Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE
  • Who funds OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC
  • Who funds WAY FINDERS INC

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Hire Family FoundationOH15.7× affinity5 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Hire Family Foundation · The Milton R & Beulah M Young Foundation · Richland County Foundation · Mightycause Charitable Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization The Pryor Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal, a single department, or state — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
202122232425
no gov · 10%0%1%3%5%your share of their income ↑0%23%45%68%90%share of the org’s income from governmentmedian 3%
  • Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in9% of income from government
  • Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art5% of income from government
  • Way Finders Inc4% of income from government
  • Hartford Stage Company Inc3% of income from government
  • University of Hartford1% of income from government
  • Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc0% of income from government
  • Hartford Hospital0% of income from government
  • Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
1get no government money at all
3report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–90%
typical government reliance, FY2025

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 39 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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