Massachusetts · Private foundation
Bertolon Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $308k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 24
- Grants FY2025
- 23
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 17 to 29
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Bertolon Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 32% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $507k 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 | 24 | $308k | 33% |
| FY2024 | 23 | $1.6M | 26% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $289k | 15% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $317k | 24% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $581k | 12% |
| FY2020 | 27 | $95k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $570k | 36% |
| FY2018 | 24 | $476k | 50% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Shore Community College Foundation Inc | $2,015,000 | 6 | 36% |
| Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc | $580,000 | 7 | 5% |
| Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I | $520,000 | 8 | 11% |
| Care Dimensions Inc | $115,100 | 3 | 0% |
| Second Congregational Church | $57,200 | 8 | n/a |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater Salem Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Pingree School Inc | $17,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Change Is Simple Inc | $10,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Salem State University Alumni Association and Foundation Inc | $10,100 | 1 | 0% |
| First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 40 recipients with no EIN on record ($860k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Bertolon Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 38 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: Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc · People's United Community Foundation of Eastern Massachusetts Inc · Van Otterloo Family Foundation · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Boston Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Leslie S & Marcia C Ray Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust - East Boston Savings Bank Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust
How this is measured
About Bertolon Family Foundation
- How much does Bertolon Family Foundation give?
- Bertolon Family Foundation reported 24 grants totaling $307,625 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 17 and 29 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bertolon Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Health (17%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Bertolon Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Shore Community College Foundation Inc ($2.0M), Cabot Performing Arts Center Inc ($580k), Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I ($520k).
- Does Bertolon Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bertolon Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bertolon Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Essex County Community Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Institution for Savings in Newburyport & Its Vicinity Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Bertolon Family Foundation based?
- Bertolon Family Foundation is based in MA.
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