Massachusetts · Private foundation
Cummings Foundation Inc
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.
- $33M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 6
- Grants FY2024
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 43%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $32,713,666
- Organizations funded a year
- 7 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 2
- Total assets, FY2024
- $2.2B
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 43% of the organizations Cummings Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $5k 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 | 6 | $33M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 7 | $18M | 43% |
| FY2022 | 9 | $37M | 44% |
| FY2021 | 7 | $9k | 43% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $117k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $127k | 65% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $69k | 53% |
| FY2017 | 24 | $175k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) | $88,063,666 | 3 | 73% |
| Supportive Living Inc | $338,086 | 4 | 21% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $12,937 | 4 | 0% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $7,500 | 3 | 0% |
| Umass Memorial Health Care Inc | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Alzheimer's Disease & Related Disorders Association Inc | $5,156 | 1 | 0% |
| Jingle Bell Festival Inc | $5,000 | 5 | 4% |
| Winchester Meals on Wheel | $3,500 | 4 | n/a |
| Winchester Foundation for Educational Excellence Inc | $3,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Friends of Winter Pond Inc | $3,000 | 3 | n/a |
Show all 47 grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($131k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Cummings Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 35 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: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Paypal Charitable Giving Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Network for Good · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Cummings Foundation Inc
- How much does Cummings Foundation Inc give?
- Cummings Foundation Inc reported 6 grants totaling $32,722,022 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 7 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Cummings Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Philanthropy (99%), Health (0%), Human Services (0%).
- Who are Cummings Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) ($88M), Supportive Living Inc ($338k), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc ($13k).
- Does Cummings Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 43% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cummings Foundation Inc 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 Cummings Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation, American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc.
- Where is Cummings Foundation Inc based?
- Cummings Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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