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Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc

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.

$53k
Granted FY2021
15
Grants FY2021
15
Organizations funded FY2021
20%
First-time grantees FY2021
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Median grant, FY2021
$2,500
Largest grant, FY2021
$5,000
Organizations funded a year
14 to 15
FY2020 to FY2021
States reached, FY2021
1
Total assets, FY2021
$2.3M
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2021, 20% of the organizations Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 19% of its grant dollars.

The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY202115$53k20%
FY202014$38kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.

Arts & Culture$310kYouth Development$25kHuman Services$20kHealth$8kAnimals$3k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2021, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Raw Art Works Inc$10,00020%
Barrington Stage Company Inc$7,50020%
Lucy's Love Bus Charitable Trust Inc$7,50021%
Neads Inc$5,00010%
Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc$5,00020%
Boston Ballet Inc$5,00020%
Artists for Humanity Inc$5,00020%
Boston Lyric Opera Company$2,50010%
Greyhound Friends Inc$2,50011%

Plus 8 recipients with no EIN on record ($40k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetRaw Art Works Inc: $10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBarrington Stage Company Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLucy's Love Bus Charitable Trust Inc: $7,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNeads Inc: $5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBridge Over Troubled Waters Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBoston Ballet Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetArtists for Humanity Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBoston Lyric Opera Company: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreyhound Friends Inc: $2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budget

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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 9.

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About Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc

How much does Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc give?
Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc reported 15 grants totaling $52,500 in its FY2021 IRS filing. It funded between 14 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2021.
What does Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2021, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (85%), Youth Development (7%), Human Services (5%).
Who are Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2021: Raw Art Works Inc ($10k), Barrington Stage Company Inc ($8k), Lucy's Love Bus Charitable Trust Inc ($8k).
Does Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2021, 20% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Bessie Pappas Charitable 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.
Where is Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc based?
Bessie Pappas Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2021, released 2021. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

Possibly out of date. A more recent filing (FY2024) is on record and reports $98k of grant expense with no grantee named in the published copy. A private foundation itemizes every grant it makes, so a return carrying none has filed its list as an attachment that the public copy does not include. The figures above are therefore from FY2021, the most recent year this funder’s grantee list reached the public record.

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