Massachusetts · Private foundation
Bierly Boasberg Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 58
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 17%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,200
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $1,105,924
- Organizations funded a year
- 48 to 65
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 15
- Total assets, FY2025
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 17% of the organizations Bierly Boasberg Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $52k 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 | 57 | $1.5M | 16% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $522k | 17% |
| FY2023 | 58 | $337k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 59 | $362k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 48 | $361k | 15% |
| FY2020 | 58 | $356k | 33% |
| FY2019 | 62 | $307k | 35% |
| FY2018 | 57 | $215k | 49% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nantucket Performing Arts Center Inc | $1,105,924 | 1 | n/a |
| Buckingham Browne & Nichols School | $291,713 | 6 | 0% |
| Save The Children Federation Inc | $178,713 | 9 | 0% |
| White Heron Theater Company | $165,807 | 4 | 6% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $160,694 | 8 | 0% |
| Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Inc | $155,439 | 7 | 0% |
| United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Camp Holiday Trails | $92,500 | 9 | 1% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | $86,934 | 9 | 0% |
| Duke University | $78,333 | 3 | 0% |
Show all 106 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 55 recipients with no EIN on record ($940k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bierly Boasberg Foundation 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: Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Nantucket Golf Club Foundation Inc · Mass General Brigham Incorporated & Affiliates Group Return · The George & Marie Chabot Charitable Foundation · The Hamilton Company Charitable Foundation · Richard K Lubin Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Bierly Boasberg Foundation
- How much does Bierly Boasberg Foundation give?
- Bierly Boasberg Foundation reported 58 grants totaling $1,526,403 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 48 and 65 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Bierly Boasberg Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (32%), Education (22%), International (10%).
- Who are Bierly Boasberg Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Nantucket Performing Arts Center Inc ($1.1M), Buckingham Browne & Nichols School ($292k), Save The Children Federation Inc ($179k).
- Does Bierly Boasberg Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 17% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bierly Boasberg Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Bierly Boasberg Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc.
- Where is Bierly Boasberg Foundation based?
- Bierly Boasberg Foundation is based in MA.
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