Massachusetts · Private foundation
Arthur M and Martha R Pappas 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.
- $900k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 15
- Grants FY2024
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 31%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 15 to 47
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $17M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 31% of the organizations Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 26% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $270k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 15 | $900k | 33% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $1.0M | 31% |
| FY2022 | 15 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 23 | $975k | 26% |
| FY2020 | 39 | $992k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 41 | $875k | 10% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $974k | 17% |
| FY2017 | 47 | $1.2M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Music Worcester Inc | $1,255,000 | 6 | 15% |
| Town of Auburn | $700,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Worcester Public Library Foundation | $600,000 | 2 | 21% |
| Franklin Pierce University | $500,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Worcester Natural History Society Inc | $348,700 | 3 | 2% |
| Worcester Art Museum | $139,000 | 5 | 1% |
| American Orthopaedic Association | $75,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Old Sturbridge Inc | $61,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Wellesley College | $41,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Audubon Society Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 42 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 35 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 37 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: Wyman Gordon · Stoddard Charitable Trust · Schwartz Charitable Foundation · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Ruth H & Warren a Ellsworth Foundation · The Fred Harris Daniels Foundation · The Fletcher Foundation · The George I Alden Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · J Irving & Jane L England Charitable Trusta Molloy & F Russellco-Trustees · Fallon Community Health Plan Inc · Rockwell Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation with peer funders
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About Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation
- How much does Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation give?
- Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation reported 15 grants totaling $900,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 15 and 47 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (27%), Environment (26%), Education (18%).
- Who are Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Music Worcester Inc ($1.3M), Town of Auburn ($700k), Worcester Public Library Foundation ($600k).
- Does Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 31% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Arthur M and Martha R Pappas 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 Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Wyman Gordon, Stoddard Charitable Trust, Schwartz Charitable Foundation.
- Where is Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation based?
- Arthur M and Martha R Pappas Foundation is based in MA.
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