New Jersey · Private foundation
Bolt Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $240k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 13%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $60,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 8
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $703k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 13% of the organizations Bolt Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
RenewedFirst-time
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
Human ServicesCommunity ImprovementHousing & ShelterEducationHealthPhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 9 | $240k | 11% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $220k | 13% |
| FY2023 | 6 | $195k | 17% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $210k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $190k | 29% |
| FY2020 | 6 | $100k | 67% |
| FY2019 | 2 | $55k | n/a |
100% classified
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Education$670kHuman Services$210kHealth$175kHousing & Shelter$135kReligion$20kPhilanthropy$10k
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Pauls Choir School | $290,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Catholic Schools Foundation Inc | $280,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $165,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Harborlight Community Partners Inc | $135,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Endicott College | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Home for Little Wanderers Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kylecares Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 13% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| St Pauls Choir School | $290,000 | 7 | n/a |
| Catholic Schools Foundation Inc | $280,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $165,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Beverly Bootstraps Community Services I | $150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Harborlight Community Partners Inc | $135,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Endicott College | $90,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Wounded Warrior Project Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cradles to Crayons Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Home for Little Wanderers Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Kylecares Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 13% |
| Gary Sinise Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 2 recipients with no EIN on record ($30k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Bolt Family Foundation supplied at peak.
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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.
About Bolt Family Foundation
- How much does Bolt Family Foundation give?
- Bolt Family Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $240,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 8 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Bolt Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (55%), Human Services (17%), Health (14%).
- Who are Bolt Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: St Pauls Choir School ($290k), Catholic Schools Foundation Inc ($280k), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($165k).
- Does Bolt Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 13% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Bolt Family Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Where is Bolt Family Foundation based?
- Bolt Family Foundation is based in NJ.
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