· Private foundation
Bolt Family Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- $10k–50k7 grants · $130k
- $50k–250k2 grants · $110k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION | $60,000 |
| ST PAUL'S CHOIR SCHOOL | $50,000 |
| MCLEAN HOSPITAL | $35,000 |
| HARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS | $25,000 |
| BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS | $25,000 |
| ENDICOTT COLLEGE | $15,000 |
| SAINTS ACADEMY | $10,000 |
| ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST PARISH | $10,000 |
| WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT | $10,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY21–25, $50k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 80% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
8 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2025, 0 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $10k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CSCATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC7× · 2019–2025 · $280k · revenue +20%
BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I6× · 2020–2025 · $150k · revenue +58%
HARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC6× · 2020–2025 · $135k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- CTCRADLES TO CRAYONS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +141%
THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $10k · revenue +54%- KIKYLECARES INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · $10k · revenue +273%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Undergraduate, graduate, and professional education and research across a broad array of academic domains.
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
Wentworth institute of technology is a nationally recognized private coeducational and residential university of higher education with a mission to empower, inspire and innovate through experiential learning with a core purpose of career…
We, trinity health of new england and trinity health, serve together in the spirit of the gospel as a compassionate and transforming healing presence within our communities. trinity health of new england is a member of trinity health.
Dean college is a private, residential new england college grounded in a culture and tradition that all students deserve the opportunity to discover and exceed their greatest aspirations. a personal and transformative community since 1865,…
NextOp helps place talented enlisted service members and veterans into civilian careers through highly individualized preparation and an array of programming.
Gordon college strives to graduate men & women distinguished by (continued on schedule o) (continuation) intellectual maturity and christian character, committed to lives of service and prepared for leadership worldwide.
The organization's primary exempt purpose is to provide access to and conduct activities in furtherance of higher education.
Saint xavier university, a catholic institution inspired by the heritage of the sisters of mercy, educates persons to search for truth, think critically, communicate effectively and serve wisely and compassionately in support of human…
Northeast college of health sciences (the college) is committed to academic excellence, leadership, and professional best practices in the health sciences.
Emerson health systems is the parent organization of four subsidiaries - emerson hospital, emerson occupational health services, emerson property development and emerson health care foundation. emerson health systems provides its…
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
How this is measured
10 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 10 of the 14 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BEVERLY BOOTSTRAPS COMMUNITY SERVICES I ↗
- Who funds HARBORLIGHT COMMUNITY PARTNERS INC ↗
- Who funds ENDICOTT COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds WOUNDED WARRIOR PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds CRADLES TO CRAYONS INC ↗
- Who funds THE HOME FOR LITTLE WANDERERS INC ↗
- Who funds KYLECARES INC ↗
- Who funds ENTERTAINMENT INDUSTRY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GARY SINISE FOUNDATION ↗
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Bolt Family Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Bolt Family Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- The Home for Little Wanderers Inc: 38% of income from government
- Cradles to Crayons Inc: 2% of income from government
- Endicott College: 1% of income from government
- Wounded Warrior Project Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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