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Palmer Townsend Fbo Isaac Fund Pfdn

Brooklyn, OH · EIN 06-6026227. Reported 58 grants totalling $245,000 to 31 organizations across tax years 2021-2024. This foundation did not tell the IRS it funds only preselected organizations.

Yesaccepts unsolicited requests
$3,400median grant
$245,000granted, 2021-2024
31organizations funded
67%of grantees funded again the next year
$1,709,325assets, latest filing

Does this foundation accept applications?

Yes -- on its own tax return. Form 990-PF asks every private foundation whether it makes grants only to organizations it selects itself. Of the 91,758 foundations in our data that made a grant and answered, 78% said yes -- and applying to those is wasted effort. Palmer Townsend Fbo Isaac Fund Pfdn did not check that box on its most recent filing, which puts it in the minority that is at least open to being approached.

This is the foundation's own statement to the IRS, not our judgement, and it says nothing about whether they have a form, a deadline, or an appetite for new grantees. Treat it as the reason this foundation is worth your research time, not as an invitation. Many small foundations of this kind have no website and no application process -- a letter of inquiry is the normal first step.

How big are its grants?

The median grant is $3,400. Half of everything it gave fell between $2,000 and $4,750; the smallest was $500 and the largest $24,500. If you are asking for materially more than the top of that range, you are asking the wrong foundation.

Under $1,000
2 grants
$1,000 - $5,000
42 grants
$5,000 - $10,000
11 grants
$10,000 - $25,000
3 grants

Every organization it funded

This is the complete list from its filings, largest first. Years funded is the number of separate tax years in which the organization received money -- more than one means a real relationship rather than a one-off.

OrganizationLocationTotal receivedGrantsYears fundedLast
University of ConnecticutStorrs, CT$76,850442024
Yale UniversityNew Haven, CT$17,250442024
Springfield CollegeSpringfield, MA$15,200442024
Clarkson UniversityPotsdam, NY$9,250332024
Liberty UniversityLynchburg, VA$9,100442024
Salve Regina UniversityNewport, RI$9,000222024
Worcester Polytechnic InstituteWorcester, MA$8,300442024
Sacred Heart UniversityFairfield, CT$7,750332024
University of MichiganAnn Arbor, MI$7,750332024
University of Saint JosephWest Hartford, CT$6,900222024
University of South CarolinaColumbia, SC$6,800222022
University of Tennessee - KnoxvilleKnoxville, TN$6,250222024
Central Ct State UniversityNew Britain, CT$5,600112021
University of MaineFarmington, ME$5,600112021
Tufts UniversityMedford, MA$5,000112024
University of PittsburghPittsburgh, PA$5,000112023
Simmons UnversityBoston, MA$4,500112022
University of New HampshireDurham, NH$4,000222024
Christopher Newport UniversityNewport News, VA$3,500112024
Connecticut State Community CollegeHartford, CT$3,500112023
University of DelawareNewark, DE$3,500112024
University of Rhode IslandKingston, RI$3,500112022
Three Rivers Community CollegeNorwich, CT$3,400112021
Virgina TechBlacksburg, VA$3,400112021
Simmons UniversityBoston, MA$3,250222024
Quinnipiac CollegeHamden, CT$2,800112021
Florida Gulf Coast UniversityFort Myers, FL$2,450112021
Castleton UniversityCastleton, VT$1,500112022
Eastern Connecticut State UniversityWillimantic, CT$1,500112023
Southern Ct State UniversityNew Haven, CT$1,300112021
University of VermontBurlington, VT$1,300112021

14 of 31 (45%) received money in more than one year over the 4 years we hold.

Measured the way we measure every foundation -- what share of one year's grantees are funded again the next -- this one retains 67%, across 3 year-to-year transitions. The median foundation retains about 67%, so this one is about typical. A high number means its list is close to settled and a newcomer has to displace someone; a low one means it is still moving money around, which is where an opening is.

What kind of organizations it funds

By the recipient's own IRS classification, for the 29 grants where we could identify the organization. These are assigned categories, not our guesses.

Education
29 grants

Giving by year

Tax yearGrantsTotalMedian grant
202116$55,000$3,400
202212$65,000$4,000
202314$60,000$2,000
202416$65,000$3,000

Tax years, not calendar years, and the most recent year is usually incomplete -- filings arrive about a year late, so a low final year means late paperwork rather than a foundation winding down.

Where its money goes

Foundations concentrate geographically far more than their mission statements suggest. 52% of this one's giving went to organizations in Connecticut. If you are outside its footprint, that matters more than how well your programme fits.

Connecticut
$127K
Massachusetts
$36K
Virginia
$16K
Rhode Island
$12K
New York
$9K
Michigan
$8K
South Carolina
$7K
Tennessee
$6K

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Funders that support the same organizations

These funders gave to organizations this one also funded -- some private foundations, some community foundations and other grantmaking charities. Shared grantees are the strongest available signal that two funders have overlapping priorities, and a funder already backing your peers is a far warmer prospect than one that merely lists your cause.

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How to approach this foundation

  1. Check you are its size. The median grant is $3,400. Asking for ten times that is the most common way small organizations waste a submission.
  2. Check you are in its geography. Its giving is concentrated in Connecticut.
  3. Read the recipient list above for organizations like yours. If nothing on it resembles your work, that is a real answer, and a cheap one to get.
  4. Look up the current filing before writing. The 990-PF names the foundation's officers and, where one exists, its application procedure. We link it below.

Related guides

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Where these numbers come from

Everything above is taken from Palmer Townsend Fbo Isaac Fund Pfdn's own Form 990-PF filings, which the IRS publishes in bulk. We used 4 returns (tax years 2021-2024). Nothing here is scraped, inferred, or estimated.

Address of record on the latest return: 4900 Tiedeman Road Oh-01-49-0381, Brooklyn, OH, 44144. This is the address the foundation gave the IRS; many small foundations file through an accountant or a bank trust department, so it may not be where post to a programme officer should go.

EIN 06-6026227 · See the original filings on ProPublica · How we build this

This is history, not an open call. Foundation returns are published about a year after the tax year ends. Nothing on this page is a deadline. It is a record of who this foundation has actually funded, which is the best available predictor of who it will fund next -- and a much better basis for deciding whether to write to them than a mission statement.

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