Massachusetts · Private foundation
Edwin S Webster Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $2.5M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 63
- Grants FY2025
- 65
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 9%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $25,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 61 to 69
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 10
- Total assets, FY2025
- $56M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 9% of the organizations Edwin S Webster Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 5% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $110k 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 | 62 | $2.5M | 15% |
| FY2024 | 65 | $2.1M | 9% |
| FY2023 | 65 | $2.0M | 15% |
| FY2022 | 68 | $2.2M | 13% |
| FY2021 | 67 | $1.9M | 9% |
| FY2020 | 69 | $1.8M | 17% |
| FY2019 | 66 | $1.5M | 15% |
| FY2018 | 61 | $1.4M | 21% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $1,250,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | $1,200,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Speare Memorial Hospital | $620,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Squam Lakes Association | $520,000 | 9 | 9% |
| Children's Hospital Corporation | $465,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Squam Lakes Natural Science Center | $450,000 | 8 | 5% |
| Joslin Diabetes Center Inc | $400,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $385,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Friends of the Children - Boston Inc | $340,000 | 9 | 2% |
| Windrush Farm Therapeutic Equitation Inc | $330,000 | 9 | 4% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 20 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Edwin S Webster Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 106 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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 · The Harris Trust · The Vermont Community Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Ben & Jerry's Foundation Inc · Hampton Roads Community Foundation · Townebank Foundation · United Way of South Hampton Roads · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Edwin S Webster Foundation
- How much does Edwin S Webster Foundation give?
- Edwin S Webster Foundation reported 63 grants totaling $2,530,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 61 and 69 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Edwin S Webster Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Health (25%), Arts & Culture (15%), Education (13%).
- Who are Edwin S Webster Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Greater Boston Food Bank Inc ($1.3M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc ($1.2M), Speare Memorial Hospital ($620k).
- Does Edwin S Webster Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 9% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Edwin S Webster Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Edwin S Webster Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, The Harris Trust, The Vermont Community Foundation.
- Where is Edwin S Webster Foundation based?
- Edwin S Webster Foundation is based in MA.
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