Massachusetts · Private foundation
Caithness Foundation
Its FY2026 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $84k
- Granted FY2026(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2026
- 43
- Organizations funded FY2025
- 7%
- First-time grantees FY2025
- Median grant, FY2026
- $1,700
- Largest grant, FY2026
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 37 to 43
- FY2019 to FY2025
- States reached, FY2026
- 11
- Total assets, FY2026
- $1.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2025, 7% of the organizations Caithness Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 8% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $6k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2026still arriving | 46 | $84k | 7% |
| FY2025 | 43 | $77k | 7% |
| FY2024 | 42 | $77k | 5% |
| FY2023 | 40 | $73k | 3% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $81k | 7% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $82k | 2% |
| FY2020 | 40 | $73k | 8% |
| FY2019 | 37 | $73k | 27% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oxfam-America Inc | $90,500 | 9 | 0% |
| Coalition for Children | $49,900 | 9 | 22% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $33,600 | 9 | 0% |
| United States Fund for Unicef | $25,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Green Center Inc | $22,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Woodwell Climate Research Center Inc | $20,500 | 7 | 0% |
| The Population Council Inc | $16,750 | 9 | 0% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $15,250 | 9 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $14,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $14,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 41 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 19 recipients with no EIN on record ($183k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Caithness 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: Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Stanley W Watson Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · Mutual Bancorp Foundation Inc Fka Cape Cod 5 Foundation Inc · Harken Foundation · Lovell Charitable Foundation · Malcolm and Elizabeth Fraser Foundation Inc · The Future Hope Foundation · Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 · Lyndon Paul Lorusso Charitable Foundatio · The Baltimore Family Fund
How this is measured
About Caithness Foundation
- How much does Caithness Foundation give?
- Caithness Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $84,000 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 37 and 43 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2025.
- What does Caithness Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2026, its largest causes are International (24%), Environment (18%), Science & Tech (13%).
- Who are Caithness Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2026: Oxfam-America Inc ($91k), Coalition for Children ($50k), Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc ($34k).
- Does Caithness Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2025, 7% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Caithness Foundation 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.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Caithness Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Stanley W Watson Foundation, Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Caithness Foundation based?
- Caithness Foundation is based in MA.
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