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Coburn Charitable Society Inc

Its FY2026 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$40k
Granted FY2026(still arriving)
9
Grants FY2026
9
Organizations funded FY2024
22%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2026
$4,000
Largest grant, FY2026
$7,500
Organizations funded a year
9 to 10
FY2021 to FY2024
States reached, FY2026
1
Total assets, FY2026
$802k
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 22% of the organizations Coburn Charitable Society Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 30% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k went to new ones.

50%100%’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’22’23’24
Food & NutritionOther
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 yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2026still arriving9$40k56%
FY20249$44k22%
FY202310$26k10%
FY20229$50k11%
FY202110$69kn/a
100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2024.

Human Services$98kFood & Nutrition$60kHousing & Shelter$20kArts & Culture$10kEnvironment$2k

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2026, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc$37,00040%
Friends of the Ipswich Elderly Inc$26,500412%
Seniorcare Inc$18,50030%
House of Peace Inc$12,50027%
Oak Hill Inc$7,23531%
Three Sisters Garden Project Inc$6,00020%
Acord Inc$5,0001n/a

Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($116k), not named here.

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Find your warmest path to Coburn Charitable Society Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About Coburn Charitable Society Inc

How much does Coburn Charitable Society Inc give?
Coburn Charitable Society Inc reported 9 grants totaling $40,100 in its FY2026 IRS filing. It funded between 9 and 10 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2024.
What does Coburn Charitable Society Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2026, its largest causes are Human Services (52%), Food & Nutrition (31%), Housing & Shelter (10%).
Who are Coburn Charitable Society Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2021 to FY2026: The Open Door Cape Ann Food Pantry Inc ($37k), Friends of the Ipswich Elderly Inc ($27k), Seniorcare Inc ($19k).
Does Coburn Charitable Society Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 22% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Coburn Charitable Society Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Where is Coburn Charitable Society Inc based?
Coburn Charitable Society Inc is based in MA.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 19 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2026, released 2026. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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