Massachusetts · Private foundation
Dorchester Foundation Inc
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.
- $367k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 28
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 21%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $213,587
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 37
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 6
- Total assets, FY2025
- $87k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 21% of the organizations Dorchester Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $13k 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 | $367k | 4% |
| FY2024 | 28 | $93k | 21% |
| FY2023 | 28 | $91k | 29% |
| FY2022 | 27 | $47k | 19% |
| FY2021 | 37 | $114k | 57% |
| FY2020 | 19 | $38k | 95% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $2k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 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, FY2019 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dana-Farber Inc | $35,000 | 6 | 0% |
| The Sumaira Foundation Inc | $32,500 | 3 | 1% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $30,000 | 6 | n/a |
| Women's Lunch Place Inc | $19,500 | 6 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $14,070 | 6 | 0% |
| Project Bread-The Walk for Hunger Inc | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| St Julia Parish | $13,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Laboure College of Healthcare Inc | $11,030 | 5 | 0% |
| Boston Rescue Mission Inc | $11,000 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 29 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($479k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Dorchester Foundation Inc 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.
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How this is measured
About Dorchester Foundation Inc
- How much does Dorchester Foundation Inc give?
- Dorchester Foundation Inc reported 26 grants totaling $366,637 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 37 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does Dorchester Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (63%), Human Services (13%), Food & Nutrition (7%).
- Who are Dorchester Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Dana-Farber Inc ($35k), The Sumaira Foundation Inc ($33k), Children's Hospital Corporation ($30k).
- Does Dorchester Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 21% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Dorchester 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 Dorchester Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Network for Good, American Endowment Foundation.
- Where is Dorchester Foundation Inc based?
- Dorchester Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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