How much does Algar Foundation give?

Algar Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $857,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.

What does Algar Foundation fund?

By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), Environment (9%), Arts & Culture (9%).

Who are Algar Foundation's largest grantees?

By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Cambridge School of Weston Inc ($1.3M), Maine College of Art and Design ($512k), Gunsdown Inc ($265k).

Does Algar Foundation fund new organizations?

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.

Does Algar 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 Algar Foundation?

Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Onion Foundation, Sam L Cohen Foundation.

Where is Algar Foundation based?

Algar Foundation is based in MA.

Foundation Dossiers

Massachusetts · Private foundation

Algar Foundation

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.

$858k
Granted FY2024(still arriving): 42
Grants FY2024: 43
Organizations funded FY2023: 28%
First-time grantees FY2023

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Median grant, FY2024: $5,000
Largest grant, FY2024: $400,000
Organizations funded a year: 28 to 43; FY2019 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024: 8
Total assets, FY2024: $12M
Applications: Preselected organizations only; Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 28% of the organizations Algar Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 15% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $70k went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

Human ServicesEducationHealthEnvironmentAnimalsArts & CultureOther

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.

The numbers by year

Fiscal year	Organizations funded	To those organizations	First-time grantees
FY2024still arriving	38	$808k	16%
FY2023	43	$464k	28%
FY2022	31	$662k	13%
FY2021	30	$700k	30%
FY2020	28	$861k	21%
FY2019	33	$751k	n/a

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What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

Education$2.3MEnvironment$386kArts & Culture$375kCivil Rights$330kPublic Benefit$250kYouth Development$206kHealth$143kInternational$100kOther$0

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, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Cambridge School of Weston Inc	$1,258,001	4	2%
Maine College of Art and Design	$512,000	6	1%
Gunsdown Inc	$265,000	6	6%
Issue One	$195,000	6	1%
UTEC Inc	$187,500	5	0%
Breakwater Learning	$157,750	6	1%
Citizen Schools Inc	$150,000	5	2%
College for Social Innovation Inc	$150,000	5	4%
Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine	$77,400	6	1%
Brookline Arts Center	$65,000	6	3%

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All grantees of Algar Foundation by total granted
Grantee	Total granted	Years	Share of their budget
The Cambridge School of Weston Inc	$1,258,001	4	2%
Maine College of Art and Design	$512,000	6	1%
Gunsdown Inc	$265,000	6	6%
Issue One	$195,000	6	1%
UTEC Inc	$187,500	5	0%
Breakwater Learning	$157,750	6	1%
Citizen Schools Inc	$150,000	5	2%
College for Social Innovation Inc	$150,000	5	4%
Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine	$77,400	6	1%
Brookline Arts Center	$65,000	6	3%
Sail Maine	$60,000	6	1%
American Friends of the Ocean Cleanup Foundation	$55,000	3	1%
Caridad Center Inc	$52,500	6	0%
Planned Parenthood of Northern New England Inc	$30,000	6	0%
SPACE Gallery	$30,000	6	1%
American Civil Liberties Union of Maine	$25,000	3	8%
Friends of the World Food Program Inc	$25,000	1	0%
WGBH Educational Foundation	$24,000	6	0%
Pitzer College	$20,000	3	0%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc	$20,000	2	0%
Full Plates Full Potential	$20,000	3	1%
Maine Donor Alliance Fund	$20,000	2	5%
State Leadership Project	$20,000	2	0%
The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children	$20,000	2	1%
Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc	$20,000	4	0%
Make a Change World Inc	$16,000	1	2%
The Surfrider Foundation	$15,000	3	0%
Guanacaste Dry Forest Conservation Fund	$15,000	3	0%
Maralliance	$15,000	3	1%
Saint Andrew's School of Boca Raton Inc	$15,000	3	0%
Trustees of Boston University	$12,000	6	0%
Uplift Afghanistan Fund	$10,000	1	1%
Le Jardin Academy Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Waynflete School	$10,000	1	0%
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc	$10,000	1	0%
Skidmore College	$8,000	3	0%
American Civil Liberties Union of Maine Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Maine Needs Inc	$5,000	2	0%
Portland Parks Conservancy	$5,000	1	2%
The Jed Foundation	$5,000	1	0%
Place of Hope Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Educate Tomorrow Corp	$5,000	1	0%
The Technology Exchange Lab Inc	$5,000	1	3%
Earth Island Institute Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Nami Maine	$5,000	1	0%
Migramar	$5,000	1	1%
Concord Academy	$5,000	2	0%
American Friends of Blue Ventures Inc	$5,000	1	0%
Maine Public Broadcasting Corporation	$4,000	2	0%
Power Speaks Louder	$2,500	1	3%
Venice Arts	$2,500	1	0%
Saving Sage Animal Rescue Foundation Inc	$2,500	1	n/a
The Telling Room	$2,000	2	0%
Nonesuch Oar & Paddle Club	$1,000	1	1%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 16 recipients with no EIN on record ($577k), not named here.

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Algar Foundation supplied at peak.

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How this is measured

Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 53.

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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.

Maine Community Foundation IncME30.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Sam L Cohen Foundation · The Widgeon Point Charitable Foundation · The Kirby Family Foundation · Anderson Family Foundation · The Skerryvore Foundation Inc · The Old Bug Light Charitable Foundation C/O Spinnaker Trust · The Harold & Mary Louise Shaw Foundation · The Bob Crewe Foundation A/K/A Crewe Foundation · Phineas W Sprague Memorial Foundation · The Mimi Foundation

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.

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About Algar Foundation

How much does Algar Foundation give?: Algar Foundation reported 42 grants totaling $857,750 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 28 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2023.
What does Algar Foundation fund?: By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (53%), Environment (9%), Arts & Culture (9%).
Who are Algar Foundation's largest grantees?: By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Cambridge School of Weston Inc ($1.3M), Maine College of Art and Design ($512k), Gunsdown Inc ($265k).
Does Algar Foundation fund new organizations?: In FY2023, 28% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Algar 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 Algar Foundation?: Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Maine Community Foundation Inc, Onion Foundation, Sam L Cohen Foundation.
Where is Algar Foundation based?: Algar Foundation is based in MA.