Massachusetts · Private foundation
Franklin Square House Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.2M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 25
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $49,545
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $116,441
- Organizations funded a year
- 20 to 71
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $23M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 19% of the organizations Franklin Square House Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $184k 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 | 25 | $1.2M | 20% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $1.1M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 23 | $1.1M | 13% |
| FY2022 | 29 | $1.4M | 17% |
| FY2021 | 51 | $970k | 6% |
| FY2020 | 71 | $1.1M | 44% |
| FY2019 | 25 | $1.3M | 60% |
| FY2018 | 20 | $901k | 100% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $411,035 | 4 | 2% |
| Familyaid Boston Inc | $329,175 | 6 | 1% |
| Lynn Shelter Association Inc | $258,318 | 5 | 1% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $241,410 | 6 | 0% |
| Emmaus Inc | $239,636 | 5 | 1% |
| Centerboard Inc | $226,500 | 5 | 1% |
| Economic Mobility Pathways Inc | $224,836 | 6 | 0% |
| Father Bill's & Mainspring Inc | $218,550 | 6 | 0% |
| Volunteers of America of Massachusetts Inc | $191,435 | 5 | 0% |
| Health Imperatives Inc | $185,750 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 77 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 31 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Franklin Square House 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: Eastern Bank Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc · Boston Foundation Inc · Rockland Trust Charitable Foundation Inc · Salem Five Charitable Foundation Inc · Amelia Peabody Charitable Fund Trust · Health Resources in Action Inc · Essex County Community Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc
How this is measured
Compare Franklin Square House Foundation Inc with peer funders
About Franklin Square House Foundation Inc
- How much does Franklin Square House Foundation Inc give?
- Franklin Square House Foundation Inc reported 25 grants totaling $1,182,573 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 20 and 71 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Franklin Square House Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Housing & Shelter (42%), Human Services (35%), Health (8%).
- Who are Franklin Square House Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Horizons for Homeless Children ($411k), Familyaid Boston Inc ($329k), Lynn Shelter Association Inc ($258k).
- Does Franklin Square House Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Franklin Square House Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Franklin Square House Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Eastern Bank Foundation, Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc), United Way Of Massachusetts Bay Inc.
- Where is Franklin Square House Foundation Inc based?
- Franklin Square House Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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