Massachusetts · Private foundation
Digs 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.
- $86k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $13,100
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 31
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 8
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.1M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Digs Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 3% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% 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 | 26 | $86k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 22 | $80k | 9% |
| FY2023 | 21 | $70k | 14% |
| FY2022 | 20 | $77k | 15% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $74k | 24% |
| FY2020 | 31 | $82k | 42% |
| FY2019 | 20 | $52k | 20% |
| FY2018 | 19 | $53k | 26% |
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 FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund | $72,215 | 9 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod Inc | $66,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross | $66,200 | 9 | 0% |
| Fund for Catholic Schools Inc | $56,000 | 9 | n/a |
| Landmark School Inc | $31,100 | 9 | 0% |
| Trustees of Thayer Academy Inc | $28,139 | 9 | 0% |
| Hobart and William Smith Colleges | $21,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Pine Manor College | $17,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $15,500 | 5 | 0% |
| Northwestern University | $10,500 | 8 | 0% |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($198k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Digs 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Pfizer Foundation Inc
How this is measured
About Digs Foundation
- How much does Digs Foundation give?
- Digs Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $86,124 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 31 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Digs Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (60%), Philanthropy (16%), Housing & Shelter (12%).
- Who are Digs Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The Administrators of the Tulane Educational Fund ($72k), Habitat for Humanity of Cape Cod Inc ($67k), Trustees of the College of the Holy Cross ($66k).
- Does Digs Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Digs 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 Digs Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc.
- Where is Digs Foundation based?
- Digs Foundation is based in MA.
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