Massachusetts · Private foundation
Eastern Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $131k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 3
- Grants FY2025
- 12
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 83%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $48,938
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $48,938
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 12
- FY2021 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 83% of the organizations Eastern Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 88% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $75k 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 | 3 | $131k | 67% |
| FY2023 | 12 | $85k | 83% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $78k | 88% |
| FY2021 | 2 | $51k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2021 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2021 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just-A-Start Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Bedford Light | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beacon Academy Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Freshman Fresh Start Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Old Dartmouth Historical Society | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Compassion & Choices | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Our Sisters School | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cambridge Historical Society | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University Lutheran Association of Greater Boston | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Just-A-Start Corporation | $50,000 | 1 | 0% |
| New Bedford Light | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Beacon Academy Inc | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Freshman Fresh Start Inc | $3,500 | 1 | 3% |
| Old Dartmouth Historical Society | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Compassion & Choices | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Commonwealth Zoological Corporation D/B/A Zoo New England | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Our Sisters School | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Cambridge Historical Society | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
| University Lutheran Association of Greater Boston | $1,000 | 1 | n/a |
| The Charles River School Inc | $1,000 | 1 | 0% |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($270k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Eastern Charitable 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: The Cabot Family Charitable Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Eastern Bank Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · National Philanthropic Trust · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Eastern Charitable Foundation
- How much does Eastern Charitable Foundation give?
- Eastern Charitable Foundation reported 3 grants totaling $130,501 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 12 organizations a year over FY2021 to FY2023.
- What does Eastern Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2021 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (49%), Housing & Shelter (15%), Religion (10%).
- Who are Eastern Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2021 to FY2025: Just-A-Start Corporation ($50k), New Bedford Light ($5k), Beacon Academy Inc ($5k).
- Does Eastern Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 83% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Eastern Charitable Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Eastern Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Cabot Family Charitable Trust, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), Eastern Bank Foundation.
- Where is Eastern Charitable Foundation based?
- Eastern Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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