Massachusetts · Public charity
Amherst College Trustees
Amherst college educates students of exceptional potential from all backgrounds so that they may seek value and advance knowledge, engage the world around them, and lead principled lives of consequence. Amherst brings together the most promising students, whatever their financial need, in order to promote diversity of experience and…
- $87M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 10
- Itemized grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 15%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Itemized, FY2025
- $796k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.2B
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 15% of the organizations Amherst College Trustees funded were first-time grantees, receiving 7% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 | 10 | $796k | 10% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $878k | 15% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $381k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 13 | $606k | 62% |
| FY2021 | 6 | $456k | 17% |
| FY2020 | 11 | $480k | 45% |
| FY2019 | 7 | $299k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 4 | $180k | 25% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Town of Amherst | $1,377,881 | 9 | n/a |
| Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools | $640,000 | 8 | n/a |
| Woodside Daycare Center Inc | $396,507 | 9 | 19% |
| The Friends of the Jones Library System Inc | $350,000 | 2 | 24% |
| Friends of the Jones Library System Inc | $250,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Five Colleges Incorporated | $230,785 | 2 | 1% |
| Amherst Business Improvement District Inc | $209,500 | 9 | 5% |
| Amherst Golf Club Inc | $195,000 | 4 | 11% |
| The Downtown Amherst Foundation Inc | $150,000 | 3 | 11% |
| New England Public Media | $103,887 | 8 | n/a |
Show all 27 grantees
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Amherst College Trustees 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: Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts · Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc · The Beveridge Family Foundation · Easthampton Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Amherst College Trustees
- How much does Amherst College Trustees give?
- Amherst College Trustees reported 10 itemized grants totaling $795,518, out of $87,061,636 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Amherst College Trustees fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (37%), Public Benefit (32%), Human Services (9%).
- Who are Amherst College Trustees's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Town of Amherst ($1.4M), Amherst-Pelham Regional Public Schools ($640k), Woodside Daycare Center Inc ($397k).
- Does Amherst College Trustees fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 15% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Amherst College Trustees?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Community Foundation of Western Massachusetts, Peoplesbank Charitable Foundation Inc, The Beveridge Family Foundation.
- Where is Amherst College Trustees based?
- Amherst College Trustees is based in MA.
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