Connecticut · Private foundation
The Putnam Area Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $96k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 31
- Grants FY2025
- 24
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 25
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.4M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations The Putnam Area Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $33k 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 | 31 | $96k | 52% |
| FY2024 | 24 | $82k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $55k | 40% |
| FY2022 | 19 | $66k | 32% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $49k | 80% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $98k | 40% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $77k | 35% |
| FY2017 | 17 | $48k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Roseland Park | $25,000 | 2 | 2% |
| The Last Green Valley Inc the Last Green Valley Inc | $24,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Qvcc Foundation Inc | $20,500 | 8 | 1% |
| United Community and Family Servicesinc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Woodstock Agricultural Society Inc | $12,776 | 4 | 0% |
| Daily Bread An Ecumenical Food Pantry Inc | $12,200 | 5 | 2% |
| Woodstock Academy Foundation Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Aspinock Historical Society of Putnam Inc | $8,700 | 2 | n/a |
| Interfaith Human Services of Putnam | $7,500 | 2 | 3% |
| Northeast Placement Services Inc | $6,500 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($375k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Putnam Area Foundation 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: Jewett City Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · Chelsea Groton Foundation · The Community Foundation of Eastern Connecticut Inc · Newell D Hale Foundation · Dime Bank Foundation Inc · Eastern Ct Savings Bank Foundation Inc · R S Gernon Trust · Ossen Family Foundation · Liberty Bank Foundation Inc · The Scripps Family Fund for Education and the Arts
How this is measured
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About The Putnam Area Foundation
- How much does The Putnam Area Foundation give?
- The Putnam Area Foundation reported 31 grants totaling $95,670 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 25 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does The Putnam Area Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (20%), Health (18%), Youth Development (13%).
- Who are The Putnam Area Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Trustees of Roseland Park ($25k), The Last Green Valley Inc the Last Green Valley Inc ($24k), Qvcc Foundation Inc ($21k).
- Does The Putnam Area Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Putnam Area Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Putnam Area Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewett City Savings Bank Foundation Inc, Centreville Savings Bank Charitable Foundation, Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Putnam Area Foundation based?
- The Putnam Area Foundation is based in CT.
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