Massachusetts · Private foundation
Abrams Foundation Inc
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.
- $6.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 18
- Grants FY2024
- 20
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 14 to 23
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 6
- Total assets, FY2024
- $100M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 15% of the organizations Abrams Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $615k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 17 | $6.8M | 18% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $7.2M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $5.5M | 30% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $4.8M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 18 | $4.5M | 39% |
| FY2019 | 14 | $6.1M | 14% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $6.0M | 26% |
| FY2017 | 21 | $5.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Where its grants go
Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.
Which US states its grants reach
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Pro Publica Inc | $8,995,000 | 8 | 4% |
| American Journalism Project Inc | $6,500,000 | 4 | 10% |
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $3,100,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Huntington Theatre Co Inc | $3,000,000 | 3 | 9% |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $2,596,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Year Up Inc | $2,125,000 | 8 | 0% |
| The Marshall Project Inc | $1,355,000 | 8 | 3% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $1,295,000 | 5 | 2% |
| The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc | $1,000,000 | 1 | 3% |
| New York Shakespeare Festival | $750,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 40 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($8.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Abrams Foundation Inc 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · One8 Foundation · Barr Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Abrams Foundation Inc
- How much does Abrams Foundation Inc give?
- Abrams Foundation Inc reported 18 grants totaling $6,880,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 23 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Abrams Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Philanthropy (13%), Public Safety & Disaster (9%).
- Who are Abrams Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Pro Publica Inc ($9.0M), American Journalism Project Inc ($6.5M), Berklee College of Music Inc ($3.1M).
- Does Abrams Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Abrams Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and does not take unsolicited requests. Check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Abrams Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, One8 Foundation.
- Where is Abrams Foundation Inc based?
- Abrams Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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