Massachusetts · Private foundation
Cardinal Brook Trust
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $2.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 12
- Grants FY2024
- 5
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 60%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $1,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 5 to 70
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 1
- Total assets, FY2024
- $125M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 60% of the organizations Cardinal Brook Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 77% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $19k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 12 | $2.3M | 25% |
| FY2023 | 5 | $25k | 60% |
| FY2022 | 24 | $222k | 4% |
| FY2021 | 46 | $759k | 13% |
| FY2020 | 49 | $968k | 18% |
| FY2019 | 47 | $1.2M | 11% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2017 | 70 | $1.4M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Marlboro College | $761,000 | 3 | 2% |
| East Quabbin Land Trust Inc | $620,200 | 5 | 50% |
| Martha's Vineyard Fishermen's Preservation Trust Inc | $139,100 | 2 | 17% |
| Island Housing Trust Corporation | $128,621 | 6 | 1% |
| Sheriff's Meadow Foundation | $115,000 | 4 | 3% |
| Island Grown Initiative Ltd | $115,000 | 1 | 3% |
| Henry Heywood Memorial Hospital | $110,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Terracorps Inc | $100,000 | 2 | 6% |
| Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 3% |
| Forward in Health Inc | $70,000 | 3 | 38% |
Show all 63 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 43 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.1M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cardinal Brook Trust supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 3 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 54 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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.
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How this is measured
About Cardinal Brook Trust
- How much does Cardinal Brook Trust give?
- Cardinal Brook Trust reported 12 grants totaling $2,284,379 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 5 and 70 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cardinal Brook Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (63%), Environment (18%), Education (7%).
- Who are Cardinal Brook Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Marlboro College ($761k), East Quabbin Land Trust Inc ($620k), Martha's Vineyard Fishermen's Preservation Trust Inc ($139k).
- Does Cardinal Brook Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 60% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cardinal Brook Trust 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 Cardinal Brook Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Kohlberg Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, South Mountain Company Foundation.
- Where is Cardinal Brook Trust based?
- Cardinal Brook Trust is based in MA.
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