Massachusetts · Private foundation
Ancore Foundation Inc
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.
- $188k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 13
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 25%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $53,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 13
- FY2021 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 25% of the organizations Ancore Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 40% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 13 | $188k | 62% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $50k | 25% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $161k | 62% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $70k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $180k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resilient Sisterhood Project Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $73,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Black Economic Alliance | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Holding Space | $50,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Margie's House | $37,500 | 5 | 12% |
| Neighbors in Need Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 2% |
| HOPE Inc Helping Other People be Empowered | $35,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Delta Steam Academy Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mv Youth Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ron Burton Training Village Inc | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 22 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Resilient Sisterhood Project Inc | $80,000 | 2 | 9% |
| Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc | $73,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Black Economic Alliance | $50,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Holding Space | $50,000 | 1 | 100% |
| Margie's House | $37,500 | 5 | 12% |
| Neighbors in Need Inc | $35,000 | 3 | 2% |
| HOPE Inc Helping Other People be Empowered | $35,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Delta Steam Academy Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Mv Youth Inc | $25,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Ron Burton Training Village Inc | $22,000 | 1 | 0% |
| West Georgia Star Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Martha's Vineyard Cerebral Palsy Camp Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 1% |
| The Hearth Foundation Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 14% |
| Holding Space Foundation Inc | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Ahmaud Arbery Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 4% |
| 247 Gateway LLC | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Elephant in the Room Inc | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Berklee College of Music Inc | $5,125 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Thistle Farms Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Vanderbilt University | $500 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 5 recipients with no EIN on record ($93k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Ancore Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 20 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.
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How this is measured
About Ancore Foundation Inc
- How much does Ancore Foundation Inc give?
- Ancore Foundation Inc reported 13 grants totaling $187,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 13 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
- What does Ancore Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (18%), Arts & Culture (15%), Education (14%).
- Who are Ancore Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Resilient Sisterhood Project Inc ($80k), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum Inc ($73k), Black Economic Alliance ($50k).
- Does Ancore Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 25% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Ancore 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 Ancore Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc, American Online Giving Foundation Inc, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Ancore Foundation Inc based?
- Ancore Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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