Massachusetts · Private foundation
Elfers 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.
- $640k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 13
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 46%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $300,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 15
- FY2020 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $16M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 46% of the organizations Elfers Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 11% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $73k 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 | 18 | $630k | 61% |
| FY2024 | 13 | $660k | 46% |
| FY2023 | 8 | $570k | 63% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $722k | 17% |
| FY2021 | 4 | $633k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 15 | $665k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 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, FY2020 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Fessenden School | $1,165,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Hotchkiss School | $1,107,694 | 6 | 0% |
| New England Conservatory of Music | $497,026 | 2 | 0% |
| Dana Hall School | $150,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $30,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Brooks School | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Portland Community Squash | $23,750 | 3 | 1% |
| Walnut Hill Center for the Arts Inc | $20,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Proprietors of the Boston Athenaeum | $20,000 | 2 | 0% |
| The Ohio State University | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
Show all 31 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 9 recipients with no EIN on record ($687k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Elfers 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Fidelity Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation · National Philanthropic Trust · Charities Aid Foundation America · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · The Bank of America Charitable Foundation Inc · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
About Elfers Foundation Inc
- How much does Elfers Foundation Inc give?
- Elfers Foundation Inc reported 19 grants totaling $640,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 15 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2024.
- What does Elfers Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (34%), Youth Development (30%), Health (16%).
- Who are Elfers Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2025: The Fessenden School ($1.2M), The Hotchkiss School ($1.1M), New England Conservatory of Music ($497k).
- Does Elfers Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 46% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Elfers 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 Elfers Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Fidelity Foundation.
- Where is Elfers Foundation Inc based?
- Elfers Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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