Massachusetts · Private foundation
Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation
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.
- $100k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 4
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 18
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $979k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 50% of the organizations Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 38% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $20k 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 | 11 | $100k | 55% |
| FY2024 | 4 | $52k | 50% |
| FY2023 | 13 | $95k | 8% |
| FY2022 | 16 | $216k | 50% |
| FY2021 | 18 | $174k | 61% |
| FY2020 | 16 | $194k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Trustees of Boston University | $125,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Ron Burton Training Village Inc | $69,000 | 3 | 0% |
| University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc | $55,000 | 4 | 0% |
| St Sebastian School Fund Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Julie Fund Inc | $40,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Harvard Street Neighborhood Health Center Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Uss Constitution Museum Inc | $29,939 | 4 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Boston Charitable Trust Fund City of Boston Trust Office | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Herren Project | $25,000 | 1 | 2% |
Show all 35 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($166k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 33 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.
Open a dossier: Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Riley Mabel Louise Tr Uwill · The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · GivenGain Foundation USA · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Arbella Insurance Foundation
How this is measured
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About Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation
- How much does Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation give?
- Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $99,500 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 18 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (30%), Health (16%), Human Services (10%).
- Who are Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: Trustees of Boston University ($125k), Ron Burton Training Village Inc ($69k), University of Massachusetts Foundation Inc ($55k).
- Does Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Commodore Builders Charitable 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 Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Suffolk Cares Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation based?
- Commodore Builders Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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