Massachusetts · Private foundation
Fels Family Foundation
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.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 49
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $500,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 42 to 52
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 2
- Total assets, FY2025
- $25M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 14% of the organizations Fels Family Foundation 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; $125k 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 | 46 | $1.2M | 13% |
| FY2024 | 49 | $1.2M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 44 | $1.2M | 9% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2021 | 52 | $1.2M | 50% |
| FY2020 | 42 | $1.0M | 14% |
| FY2019 | 48 | $1.1M | 23% |
| FY2018 | 45 | $765k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2018 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nichols College | $305,000 | 5 | 0% |
| American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches | $200,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Boys and Girls Club of Webster-Dudley Inc | $182,000 | 6 | 6% |
| Our Bright Future Inc | $163,930 | 8 | 43% |
| Cat Connection Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 58% |
| First Baptist Church | $87,000 | 5 | n/a |
| Worcester County Food Bank Inc | $80,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Webster Dudley Food Share Inc | $76,000 | 8 | 14% |
| Passion 4 Paws Inc | $53,000 | 4 | 16% |
| Diocese of Worcester | $51,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 34 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 80 recipients with no EIN on record ($7.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Fels Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 27 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: Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Aaf Charitable Foundation · The Janet Malser Humanities Trust · Webster Five Foundation Inc · Hometown Bank Community Foundation Inc · John J and Elizabeth M Kunkel & Family Foundation Inc · Coghlin Family Foundation · George Wells Foundation Ui · United Way of South Central Massachusetts Inc · Tonna Charitable Trust · The Fletcher Foundation · The White Companies Charitable Trust
How this is measured
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About Fels Family Foundation
- How much does Fels Family Foundation give?
- Fels Family Foundation reported 46 grants totaling $1,157,830 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 42 and 52 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Fels Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (20%), Religion (6%), Youth Development (6%).
- Who are Fels Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2025: Nichols College ($305k), American National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches ($200k), Boys and Girls Club of Webster-Dudley Inc ($182k).
- Does Fels Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Fels Family 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 Fels Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc, Aaf Charitable Foundation, The Janet Malser Humanities Trust.
- Where is Fels Family Foundation based?
- Fels Family Foundation is based in MA.
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