Massachusetts · Private foundation
Boston Fatherless & Widows Society
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $561k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $277,075
- Organizations funded a year
- 18 to 24
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $6.6M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Boston Fatherless & Widows Society funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $15k 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 | $561k | 8% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $477k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $506k | 10% |
| FY2022 | 23 | $547k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $478k | 11% |
| FY2020 | 24 | $478k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Lunch Place Inc | $100,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Walker Inc | $86,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc | $72,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Home for Little Wanderers Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Brookview House Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Second Step Inc | $68,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Rosie's Place Inc | $67,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $66,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Health Care Without Walls Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Compass Working Capital Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 24 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Women's Lunch Place Inc | $100,000 | 6 | 1% |
| Walker Inc | $86,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc | $72,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Home for Little Wanderers Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Brookview House Inc | $70,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Second Step Inc | $68,500 | 6 | 1% |
| Rosie's Place Inc | $67,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Salvation Army | $66,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Health Care Without Walls Inc | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Compass Working Capital Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $55,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Bridge Over Troubled Waters Inc | $50,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Crossroads for Kids Inc | $49,000 | 6 | 0% |
| City Mission Inc | $42,000 | 3 | 1% |
| St Mary's Center for Women & Children Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| The Carroll Center for the Blind Inc | $20,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Nuestra Comunidad Development Corp | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jewish Family & Children's Service Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Wily Network | $15,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Casa Esperanza Inc | $15,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Human Relations Service Inc | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Massachusetts Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Reach Beyond Domestic Violence Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Friendshipworks Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Boston Fatherless & Widows Society 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Evening Clinic Foundation Inc · Adelard & Valeda Roy Foundation · Anna B Stearns Charitable Foundation Inc · Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office
How this is measured
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About Boston Fatherless & Widows Society
- How much does Boston Fatherless & Widows Society give?
- Boston Fatherless & Widows Society reported 25 grants totaling $560,875 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 18 and 24 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Boston Fatherless & Widows Society fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (63%), Housing & Shelter (10%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Boston Fatherless & Widows Society's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Women's Lunch Place Inc ($100k), Walker Inc ($87k), Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc ($72k).
- Does Boston Fatherless & Widows Society fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Boston Fatherless & Widows Society accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Boston Fatherless & Widows Society?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund, Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc.
- Where is Boston Fatherless & Widows Society based?
- Boston Fatherless & Widows Society is based in MA.
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