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Easton Family Fund

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.

$109k
Granted FY2025(still arriving)
28
Grants FY2025
32
Organizations funded FY2024
34%
First-time grantees FY2024
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Median grant, FY2025
$1,380
Largest grant, FY2025
$26,500
Organizations funded a year
1 to 32
FY2017 to FY2024
States reached, FY2025
5
Total assets, FY2025
$736k
Applications
Preselected organizations only
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2024, 34% of the organizations Easton Family Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 4% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $7k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
Arts & CultureEducationEnvironmentHuman ServicesAnimalsFood & NutritionOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2025still arriving28$109k25%
FY202432$163k34%
FY202329$92k52%
FY202232$71k100%
FY20211$53k0%
FY20201$78k0%
FY20171$140kn/a
98% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Philanthropy$272kArts & Culture$269kReligion$122kEducation$19kHuman Services$8kHealth$8kEnvironment$2kAnimals$2kOther$0

Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

Show all 39 grantees
All grantees of Easton Family Fund by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc$95,89030%
Center for Curatorial Leadership Inc$41,01040%
Metropolitan Museum of Art$28,00040%
Pan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc$7,14620%
The Spence School$6,08520%
Whitney Museum of American Art$5,10040%
The Wassaic Project Inc$5,00030%
Tate Americas Foundation$4,00030%
Studio in a School Association Inc$3,56030%
Project Sage Inc$3,52020%
Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute$3,00030%
Music Mountain Incorporated$3,00030%
Sumgate Inc$3,0001n/a
The Studio Museum in Harlem$2,40010%
The Frick Collection$1,65810%
New York Studio School$1,65020%
Bard College$1,50020%
American Academy of Arts & Sciences$1,38010%
The Laundromat Project Inc$1,05010%
13 Hands Equine Rescue Inc$1,00010%
The Garden Conservancy Inc$1,00040%
Greenagers Inc$1,00010%
Tectonic Theater Project Inc$1,00010%
Alliance of HBCU Museums and Galleries Inc$1,00012%
Sharon Land Trust Inc$85040%
Sharon Community Foundation Inc$7503n/a
Sharon Fire Department Inc$75030%
Aperture Foundation Inc$50010%
The Institute of Contemporary Art Inc$50010%
The Tom Gold Dance Foundation 51 West 81st Street$50010%
The Symphony Space Inc$5001n/a
Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling$50010%
Hollister House Garden Inc$33520%
Freedom for All Inc$25010%
National Audubon Society Inc$25010%
Pelotonia$23210%
Sharon Green Preservation Association Inc$2002n/a
Sharon Historical Society Inc$10010%
Wethersfield Foundation Inc$1001n/a

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 27 recipients with no EIN on record ($477k), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Easton Family Fund supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMassachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc: $95,890 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCenter for Curatorial Leadership Inc: $41,010 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMetropolitan Museum of Art: $28,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPan-Massachusetts Challenge Inc: $7,146 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Spence School: $6,085 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWhitney Museum of American Art: $5,100 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wassaic Project Inc: $5,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTate Americas Foundation: $4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetStudio in a School Association Inc: $3,560 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetProject Sage Inc: $3,520 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSterling and Francine Clark Art Institute: $3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMusic Mountain Incorporated: $3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Studio Museum in Harlem: $2,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Frick Collection: $1,658 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Studio School: $1,650 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBard College: $1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAmerican Academy of Arts & Sciences: $1,380 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Laundromat Project Inc: $1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budget13 Hands Equine Rescue Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Garden Conservancy Inc: $1,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGreenagers Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTectonic Theater Project Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlliance of HBCU Museums and Galleries Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSharon Land Trust Inc: $850 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSharon Fire Department Inc: $750 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAperture Foundation Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Institute of Contemporary Art Inc: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Tom Gold Dance Foundation 51 West 81st Street: $500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSugar Hill Children's Museum of Art and Storytelling: $500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHollister House Garden Inc: $335 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFreedom for All Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNational Audubon Society Inc: $250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPelotonia: $232 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSharon Historical Society Inc: $100 over 1y, 0.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 34.

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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.

Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation IncMA25.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc · Low Road Foundation · Ag Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Tilia Foundation · The Jm Kaplan Fund Inc · Peter and Helen Haje Foundation · The Robert L and Jean Clarke Family Foundation · The Hallingby Family Foundation Inc · Northwest Connecticut Community Foundation Inc · Jewish Communal Fund · MJPM Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About Easton Family Fund

How much does Easton Family Fund give?
Easton Family Fund reported 28 grants totaling $109,238 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 32 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
What does Easton Family Fund fund?
By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (37%), Arts & Culture (36%), Religion (16%).
Who are Easton Family Fund's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation Inc ($96k), Center for Curatorial Leadership Inc ($41k), Metropolitan Museum of Art ($28k).
Does Easton Family Fund fund new organizations?
In FY2024, 34% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does Easton Family Fund 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 Easton Family Fund?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation Inc, Low Road Foundation, Ag Foundation.
Where is Easton Family Fund based?
Easton Family Fund is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 66 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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