Massachusetts · Private foundation
Cutler Stephens 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.
- $6k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 36
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 35%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $100
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $816
- Organizations funded a year
- 31 to 55
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 9
- Total assets, FY2025
- $49k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 35% of the organizations Cutler Stephens Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 31% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2k 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 | 36 | $6k | 47% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $7k | 35% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $11k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 37 | $10k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 32 | $5k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 43 | $5k | 19% |
| FY2019 | 52 | $10k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 55 | $9k | 55% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc | $4,700 | 7 | 0% |
| Sheriff's Meadow Foundation | $3,357 | 8 | 0% |
| Pier 5 Association Inc | $3,000 | 5 | 3% |
| Martha's Vineyard Preservation Trust Inc | $2,456 | 4 | 0% |
| The Trustees of the Smith College | $2,340 | 7 | 0% |
| Martha's Vineyard Museum Inc | $2,264 | 5 | 0% |
| Courageous Sailing Center for Youth Inc | $2,006 | 7 | 0% |
| Waterkeeper Alliance Inc | $1,550 | 3 | 0% |
| Angels Helping Animals Worldwide Inc | $1,230 | 4 | 1% |
| Vineyard Conservation Society Inc | $1,203 | 4 | 0% |
Show all 80 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 83 recipients with no EIN on record ($33k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Cutler Stephens Foundation 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: Hoerle Foundation Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · T Kimball Brooker Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Giordano Foundation Inc · Healey Family Foundation · Community Foundation of New Jersey · The Kohlberg Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation
How this is measured
About Cutler Stephens Foundation
- How much does Cutler Stephens Foundation give?
- Cutler Stephens Foundation reported 36 grants totaling $6,253 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 31 and 55 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Cutler Stephens Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (25%), Environment (19%), Education (16%).
- Who are Cutler Stephens Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sail Martha's Vineyard Inc ($5k), Sheriff's Meadow Foundation ($3k), Pier 5 Association Inc ($3k).
- Does Cutler Stephens Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Cutler Stephens 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 Cutler Stephens Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Hoerle Foundation Inc, Boston Foundation Inc, T Kimball Brooker Foundation.
- Where is Cutler Stephens Foundation based?
- Cutler Stephens Foundation is based in MA.
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