· Private foundation
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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k7 grants · $26k
- $10k–50k7 grants · $115k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| MID OHIO CIVIC OPERA | $2,000 |
| GRACE EPISCOPAL FOOD PANTRY | $2,000 |
| MANSFIELD ART CENTER | $2,000 |
| Way Finders | $2,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY20–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 47% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +34% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $59k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
UNIVERSITY OF HARTFORD4× · 2020–2023 · $79k · revenue +10%- HSHARTFORD STAGE COMPANY INC4× · 2021–2024 · $65k · revenue +61%
- HHHartford Hospital2× · 2023–2024 · $30k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- BSBOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INCgraduatedone grant, 2023 · $5k · revenue +26%
- TTTHE TOWER SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · $4k
- RRCFone grant, 2020 · $3k
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
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…
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…
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…
Since 1775, the mission of Hampden-Sydney College has been to form good men and good citizens in an atmosphere of sound learning.
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…
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
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…
New england conservatory of music (nec) educates and trains musicians of all ages from around the world.
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.
Williams College strives to achieve educational excellence by fostering a community of learning in collaboration with students, faculty, staff, devoted alumni and parents.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
How this is measured
17 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 NANTUCKET MARIA MITCHELL ASSOCIATION IN ↗
- Who funds HARTFORD SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds NORTH CENTRAL STATE COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HARMONY HOUSE INC ↗
- Who funds Mansfield Fine Arts Guild Inc ↗
- Who funds BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA INC ↗
- Who funds US PAIN FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds SWARTHMORE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds OHIO BIRD SANCTUARY INC ↗
- Who funds WAY FINDERS INC ↗
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 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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Pryor Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Pryor Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Nantucket Maria Mitchell Association in: 9% of income from government
- Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art: 5% of income from government
- Way Finders Inc: 4% of income from government
- Hartford Stage Company Inc: 3% of income from government
- University of Hartford: 1% of income from government
- Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
- Hartford Hospital: 0% of income from government
- Hartford Symphony Orchestra Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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