Massachusetts · Private foundation
Alchemy Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $20k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 2
- Grants FY2025
- 133
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 2%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 133 to 184
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 2% of the organizations Alchemy Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $9k 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 | 2 | $20k | 100% |
| FY2024 | 133 | $3.1M | 2% |
| FY2023 | 172 | $1.5M | 4% |
| FY2022 | 184 | $432k | 9% |
| FY2021 | 173 | $370k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 182 | $2.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Metrics for Management | $2,500,000 | 2 | 65% |
| The Childrens Museum | $1,104,633 | 5 | 8% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $609,368 | 5 | 0% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $367,660 | 5 | 0% |
| Refugepoint Inc | $295,365 | 5 | 1% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $195,011 | 5 | 0% |
| Planned Parenthood League of Massachusetts Inc | $170,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $166,906 | 5 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $141,535 | 5 | 0% |
| United States Association for UNHCR | $75,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 201 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($536k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Alchemy Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 187 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 · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · The Klarman Family Foundation · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Stevenson Family Charitable Trust · Barr Foundation
How this is measured
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About Alchemy Foundation
- How much does Alchemy Foundation give?
- Alchemy Foundation reported 2 grants totaling $20,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 133 and 184 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Alchemy Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (34%), Arts & Culture (27%), International (21%).
- Who are Alchemy Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Metrics for Management ($2.5M), The Childrens Museum ($1.1M), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($609k).
- Does Alchemy Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 2% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Alchemy Foundation 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 Alchemy Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Alchemy Foundation based?
- Alchemy Foundation is based in MA.
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