Massachusetts · Private foundation
East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $97k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 33
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 44
- FY2019 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $112k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 100% of the organizations East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $123k 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 | 32 | $96k | 75% |
| FY2024 | 1 | $123k | 100% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $55k | 52% |
| FY2022 | 42 | $145k | 45% |
| FY2021 | 44 | $140k | 41% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $89k | 61% |
| FY2019 | 36 | $99k | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc | $30,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Homeowner's Rehab Inc | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cambridge Young Mens Christian Association | $30,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Greenroots Inc | $25,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Bread of Life Inc | $25,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Chelsea Restoration | $21,500 | 3 | 3% |
| Arlington Eats Inc | $20,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Neighborhood Developers Inc | $14,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cambridge Community Center Inc | $12,500 | 4 | 0% |
| The Childrens Room Center for Grieving Children | $12,500 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 57 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 76 recipients with no EIN on record ($307k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget East Cambridge Savings Charitable 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.
Open a dossier: Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Cambridge Community Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Eastern Cambridge Foundation · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Leader Bank Charitable Foundation Corporation · Philanthropy Massachusetts Inc
How this is measured
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About East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc
- How much does East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc give?
- East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc reported 33 grants totaling $97,250 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 44 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2024.
- What does East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2025, its largest causes are Human Services (23%), Education (21%), Housing & Shelter (14%).
- Who are East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2025: Mystic Valley Aging Services Inc ($30k), Homeowner's Rehab Inc ($30k), Cambridge Young Mens Christian Association ($30k).
- Does East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc.
- Where is East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc based?
- East Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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