Massachusetts · Private foundation
Ac Ratshesky Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $293k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 32
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $9.5M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Ac Ratshesky Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $103k 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 | 15 | $293k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $321k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $305k | 13% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $368k | 29% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $318k | 18% |
| FY2020 | 25 | $370k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 28 | $315k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 32 | $350k | 41% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Third Sector New England Inc | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Families First Parenting Program Inc | $130,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Jewish Vocational Service Inc | $115,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Operation Able of Greater Boston Inc | $115,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Chelsea Education Foundation Inc | $105,000 | 7 | 40% |
| Just-A-Start Corporation | $100,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Room to Grow National Inc | $100,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Found in Translation Inc | $95,000 | 7 | 2% |
| International Institute of New England Inc | $95,000 | 7 | 0% |
| South Boston Neighborhood House Inc | $85,000 | 7 | 1% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 14 recipients with no EIN on record ($370k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ac Ratshesky Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 56 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Tr Uw Helen F Kimball-The Moses Kimball Fund for Promotion of Good Citizenship · Fidelity Foundation
How this is measured
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About Ac Ratshesky Foundation
- How much does Ac Ratshesky Foundation give?
- Ac Ratshesky Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $292,730 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 32 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Ac Ratshesky Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (20%), Employment (19%), Youth Development (14%).
- Who are Ac Ratshesky Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Third Sector New England Inc ($135k), Families First Parenting Program Inc ($130k), Jewish Vocational Service Inc ($115k).
- Does Ac Ratshesky Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ac Ratshesky Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Ac Ratshesky Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc).
- Where is Ac Ratshesky Foundation based?
- Ac Ratshesky Foundation is based in MA.
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