Massachusetts · Private foundation
Enable Hope Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $68k
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 37
- Grants FY2024
- 22
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 5%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $15,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 22 to 38
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 4
- Total assets, FY2024
- $398k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 5% of the organizations Enable Hope Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1k 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 37 | $68k | 22% |
| FY2023 | 22 | $70k | 5% |
| FY2022 | 30 | $80k | 27% |
| FY2021 | 22 | $75k | 9% |
| FY2020 | 38 | $66k | 21% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $84k | 42% |
| FY2018 | 23 | $72k | 13% |
| FY2017 | 34 | $67k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Our Sisters School | $29,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Youth Opportunities Unlimited Inc | $11,500 | 8 | 3% |
| Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford Inc | $10,000 | 2 | 1% |
| New Bedford Historical Society Inc | $8,500 | 5 | 5% |
| Old Dartmouth Historical Society | $8,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Lothropp Family Foundation Inc | $8,000 | 7 | 47% |
| The Sturgis Library | $8,000 | 8 | 0% |
| New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center Inc | $7,500 | 8 | 1% |
| Heritage Museums and Gardens Inc | $7,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Community Nurse Inc | $6,000 | 7 | 0% |
Show all 45 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 32 recipients with no EIN on record ($393k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Enable Hope Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 41 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: Southcoast Community Foundation Inc · The Carney Family Charitable Foundation · Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Alvord Family Foundation · Island Foundation Inc · United Way of Greater New Bedford Inc · Willow Creek Charitable Foundation U/A/D 01/11/2002 · Boston Foundation Inc · Grimshaw-Gudewicz Charitable Foundation A Shabshelowitz Co-Trustee · New Bedford Day Nursery Inc · Bascom Charitable Foundation · The Ludes Family Foundation
How this is measured
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About Enable Hope Foundation
- How much does Enable Hope Foundation give?
- Enable Hope Foundation reported 37 grants totaling $68,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 22 and 38 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Enable Hope Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (59%), Education (14%), Youth Development (8%).
- Who are Enable Hope Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Our Sisters School ($29k), Youth Opportunities Unlimited Inc ($12k), Boys & Girls Club of Greater New Bedford Inc ($10k).
- Does Enable Hope Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 5% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Enable Hope Foundation 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 Enable Hope Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Southcoast Community Foundation Inc, The Carney Family Charitable Foundation, Bristol County Savings Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Enable Hope Foundation based?
- Enable Hope Foundation is based in MA.
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