Massachusetts · Private foundation
Cold Brook Fund
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $38k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 4
- Grants FY2025
- 8
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $22,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 14
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 3
- Total assets, FY2025
- $465k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Cold Brook Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 63% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 37% 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2025still arriving | 4 | $38k | 25% |
| FY2024 | 8 | $30k | 75% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $31k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $40k | 67% |
| FY2021 | 14 | $57k | 36% |
| FY2020 | 14 | $52k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Edina Abc Foundation | $30,500 | 4 | 16% |
| The Epiphany School Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kennett Area Community Service | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Commonwealth School Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fresh Air Fund | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chester County Hospital | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chester County Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jeremiah Program | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Razom Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
Show all 20 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Edina Abc Foundation | $30,500 | 4 | 16% |
| The Epiphany School Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Kennett Area Community Service | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Commonwealth School Inc | $16,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Fresh Air Fund | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Trustees of Deerfield Academy | $15,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Chester County Hospital | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Chester County Hospital Foundation | $10,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Jeremiah Program | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Razom Inc | $6,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Trevor Project Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| NAACP Legal Defense & Educ Fund Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Chaconia Support Group Inc | $3,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The DC Central Kitchen Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Ndn Collective Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Medical Debt Resolution Inc | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Expressive Path Inc | $2,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Good Shepherd Food Bank | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 12 recipients with no EIN on record ($65k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cold Brook Fund 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: American Endowment Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Cold Brook Fund
- How much does Cold Brook Fund give?
- Cold Brook Fund reported 4 grants totaling $37,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 14 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Cold Brook Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (33%), Health (23%), Human Services (15%).
- Who are Cold Brook Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Edina Abc Foundation ($31k), The Epiphany School Inc ($20k), Kennett Area Community Service ($20k).
- Does Cold Brook Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cold Brook Fund 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 Cold Brook Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include American Endowment Foundation, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, American Online Giving Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cold Brook Fund based?
- Cold Brook Fund is based in MA.
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