Skip to content
Waring & Carmen Partridge Foundation (Fka Partridge Foundation) at a glance

· Private foundation

Waring & Carmen Partridge Foundation (Fka Partridge Foundation)

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$354k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
States reached
$210k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0199% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Philanthropy$2.4MEducation$1.5MArts & Culture$401kHealth$52kReligion$43kPublic Safety & Disaster$30kPublic Benefit$26kInternational$19kOther$0
02FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k8 grants · $29k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $115k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $210k
$5,000
Median grant
4
States reached
$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST$210,000
REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM$25,000
NAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION$25,000
NEWPORT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION$25,000
ST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL$20,000
NEWPORT STRING PROJECT$10,000
THE 1768 FOUNDATION INC$10,000
BUCKLEY INSTITUTE$5,000
7 WEST 43D STREET FOUNDATION$5,000
REAL NEWS PROJECT INC$5,000
OLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND$5,000
CENTER FOR AMERICAN MARINE ART$5,000
HALE FOUNDATION$2,000
NEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC$1,000
NEWPORT ROTARY CHARITABLE TRUST$1,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

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

show:

Its human-services grants (FY22–22, $5k) land where the poverty rate runs at 7%, against an area that typically sits at 12%. 0% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants skew toward lower-need ZIPs.

area typical 12%NEWPORT COUNTY YMCA: $5k → 7%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

WA
IL
NY
MA
WY
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CO
VA
MD
DE
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

49%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$2.2M · 26 repeat orgs$2.3M to everyone else

26 repeat relationships: 7 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
39

Total granted

$2.2M
$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+29%

Still filing today

73%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $42k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationPhilanthropyInternationalYouth DevelopmentEnvironmentOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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

  • QU
    QUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2018–2022 · $1.0M · revenue +14%
  • TA
    THE AMERICAN FUND FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY
    2× · 2017–2022 · $160k · revenue +178%
  • KS
    KENT SCHOOL
    5× · 2017–2022 · $150k · revenue +21%

Funded once

  • TW
    THE WARING AND CARMEN PARTRIDGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · $2.1M
  • VM
    VI MONTESSORI SCHOOL INC
    one grant, 2017 · $30k
  • SP
    ST PAUL'S SCHOOL
    one grant, 2022 · $26k
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.

04Its field

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.

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
Rhode Island School of Design

The mission of rhode island school of design, through its college and museum,is to educate its students and the public in the creation and (see schedule o)appreciation of works of art and design, to discover and transmit knowledge and to…

Education
3
Connecticut Aeronautical Historical Association Inc

The new england air museum's mission is to preserve and present the story of aviation and aerospace, with an emphasis on new england's role, and the genius and inspiration that made it possible. the museum also seeks to inspire young…

Arts & Culture
4
The Connecticut River Foundation At Steamboat Dock Inc

The connecticut river museum's mission is to deepen appreciation of the river's history and to inspire its stewardship by providing unique educational and recreational experiences to diverse audiences.

Arts & Culture
5
The Pierpont Morgan Library

The Morgan Library & Museum celebrates and shares the history and process of human creativity from antiquity to the present day through the preservation, study, and interpretation of a dynamic and growing collection.

Education
6
United States Naval Institute

Provide an independent forum for those who dare to read, think, speak, and write to advance the professional, literary, and scientific understanding of sea power and other issues critical to global security.

—
7
Newport Art Museum and Art Association

The newport art museum's mission is to share a diversity of art and experiences that spark reflection, inspiration, and connection within our newport community and beyond. the museum was founded in 1912 on the belief that arts and culture…

Arts & Culture
8
Camden Shipyard Maritime Museum

To educate the world about camden's rich maritime heritage and significant contributions to global shipbuilding and seafaring exploration.

Arts & Culture
9
Preserve Rhode Island

Preserve ri's vision is a future where historic preservation creates positive change, making our diverse cultures, the environment, and the economy better for the people who live, visit and work in rhode island. preserve ri's mission is to…

Arts & Culture
10
Nantucket Historical Association

The nantucket historical association preserves and interprets the history of nantucket through its programs, collections, and properties, in order to promote the island's significance and foster an appreciation of it among all audiences.

Arts & Culture
11
Connecticut College

Connecticut college educates students to put the liberal arts into action as citizens of a global society. for additional information, see schedule o.

Education
12
Montauk Historical Society

The purpose of the montauk historical society is to collect, restore, preserve and display historically significant buildings, objects and writings and to preserve and share the history and cultures of montauk and the east end for this and…

Arts & Culture
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Preservation Society of Newport County; the most unlike its peers is Hale Foundation Inc. 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

52 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. 52 of the 74 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/52
Grantees still filing
35/52
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE WARING AND CARMEN PARTRIDGE FOUNDATION: $2,051,945 · OtherTHE WARING AND CARMEN PARTRIDGE FOUNDATIONNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST: $260,000 · OtherNATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUSTAMERICAN FRIENDS OF THE OLD ROYAL NAVAL COLLEGE INC: $95,000 · Other+32 more: $352,875 · Other+32 moreQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $1,025,000 · EducationQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITYKENT SCHOOL: $150,000 · EducationKENT SCHOOLNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $92,155 · EducationNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC+4 more: $56,170 · EducationTHE AMERICAN FUND FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY: $160,000 · Arts & CultureMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $34,906 · Arts & CultureCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $20,000 · Arts & Culture+18 more: $79,305 · Arts & CultureNewport Hospital Foundation: $50,000 · HealthUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $15,000 · PhilanthropyThe Mustique Charitable Foundation: $5,000 · PhilanthropyNEWPORT ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 · PhilanthropyAmerican Friends of the Old Royal Naval College: $10,000 · InternationalTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 · InternationalSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 · International+1 more: $100 · InternationalAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION: $8,000 · EnvironmentGATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC): $5,000 · Environment
Other$2,759,820Education$1,323,325Arts & Culture$344,211Health$50,000Philanthropy$21,000International$14,100Environment$13,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetQUINNIPIAC UNIVERSITY: $1,025,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE AMERICAN FUND FOR WESTMINSTER ABBEY: $160,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetKENT SCHOOL: $150,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNAVAL WAR COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $92,155 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE COMPANY OF THE REDWOOD LIBRARY AND ATHENAEUM: $52,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMYSTIC SEAPORT MUSEUM INC: $50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNewport Hospital Foundation: $50,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetST MICHAEL'S COUNTRY DAY SCHOOL: $45,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHALE FOUNDATION INC: $37,000 over 3y, 24% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT PLAYERS FOUNDATION INC D/B/A LONG WHARF THEATRE: $34,906 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetST THOMAS DAY SCHOOL INC: $30,225 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHOPKINS SCHOOL INCORPORATED: $25,170 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNew York University: $25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONNECTICUT NEWS PROJECT INC: $20,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF GREATER NEW HAVEN INC: $15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CONNECTICUT HISTORICAL SOCIETY Connecticut Museum of Culture & History: $10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNEWPORT STRING PROJECT: $10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetANDERSON RANCH ARTS CENTER: $10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAmerican Friends of the Old Royal Naval College: $10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetReal News Project Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetMusic Mountain Incorporated: $10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetWHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART: $9,515 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAMERICAN FRIENDS OF CANADIAN CONSERVATION: $8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMORY'S PRESERVATION INC: $6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOLIVER HAZARD PERRY RHODE ISLAND INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CENTER FOR AMERICAN MARINE ART INC: $5,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetNEWPORT COUNTY REGIONAL YMCA: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBUCKLEY INSTITUTE INC: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGATHER NEW HAVEN INC (FORMELY NEW HAVEN LAND TRUST INC): $5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Mustique Charitable Foundation: $5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE TVRC EDUCATION FOUNDATION INC: $4,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHISTORIC TAKOMA INC: $4,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetCONNECTICUT ASSOCIATION FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $3,470 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION OF ROTARY INTERNATIONAL: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD MUSIC PRODUCTIONS: $3,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCONNECTICUT FOODSHARE INC: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW YORK YACHT CLUB FOUNDATION: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSRBA HISTORIC BUILDING AND ENVIRONMENTAL PRESERVATION FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DREAMYARD PROJECT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT FESTIVALS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget29 BELLEVUE AVENUE FOUNDATION INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE AVENUE CONCEPT INC: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSave The Children Federation Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEWPORT ROTARY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetTWO EAST SIXTY-SECOND STREET FOUNDATION: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRESERVATION SOCIETY OF NEWPORT COUNTY: $820 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEIGHBORHOOD MUSIC SCHOOL INC: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
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.

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.

Van Beuren Charitable…Alletta Morris McBean…Hamilton Family Found…Newalliance Foundatio…Frederick Henry Princ…The Community Foundat…Larry and Anne Glenn …The Anne and David B …Hamilton Family Chari…Yale UniversityAmica Companies Found…The Koch Ellis Fund
Van Beuren Charitable Foundation IncNY21.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Van Beuren Charitable Foundation Inc · Alletta Morris McBean Charitable Trust · Hamilton Family Foundation · Newalliance Foundation Inc · Frederick Henry Prince Testamentary Trust · The Community Foundation for Greater New Haven · Larry and Anne Glenn Foundation Inc · The Anne and David B Ford Jr Foundation · Hamilton Family Charitable Trust · Yale University · Amica Companies Foundation · The Koch Ellis Fund

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Waring & Carmen Partridge Foundation (Fka Partridge Foundation) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Waring & Carmen Partridge Foundation (Fka Partridge Foundation). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 100%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%19%38%56%75%share of the org’s income from government →median 5%
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution: 63% of income from government
  • United Way of Greater New Haven Inc: 42% of income from government
  • Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
  • Gather New Haven Inc (Formely New Haven Land Trust Inc): 11% of income from government
  • Connecticut Foodshare Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Mystic Seaport Museum Inc: 5% of income from government
  • Neighborhood Music School Inc: 4% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Historical Society Connecticut Museum of Culture & History: 1% of income from government
  • The Connecticut Players Foundation Inc D/B/a Long Wharf Theatre: 1% of income from government
  • Quinnipiac University: 0% of income from government
  • Music Mountain Incorporated: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
10get no government money at all
7report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–75%
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Waring & Carmen Partridge Foundation (Fka Partridge Foundation)?

Find your warmest path to Waring & Carmen Partridge Foundation (Fka Partridge Foundation) through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 74 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

Source object · view filing

Play a game based on Waring & Carmen Partridge Foundation (Fka Partridge Foundation)’s filings →

More from the funding graph

The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
The DAF merry-go-round
$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home