· Private foundation
Fresh Sound 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.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k9 grants · $50k
- $10k–50k28 grants · $800k
- $50k–250k4 grants · $275k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $75,000 |
| ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND | $75,000 |
| CERES INC | $75,000 |
| NEW GEORGIA PROJECT | $50,000 |
| ALL VOTING IS LOCAL | $45,000 |
| GENERATION CITIZEN | $45,000 |
| NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT | $40,000 |
| YELLOW BARN INC | $40,000 |
| FAIR COUNT INC | $40,000 |
| AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW | $40,000 |
| EMERSON COLLEGE | $40,000 |
| UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS | $40,000 |
| SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER | $40,000 |
| FRESH GRASS (OFFICE PERFORMING ARTS & FILM INC) | $40,000 |
| RIVER NETWORK | $35,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–25) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 84% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +33% since the first grant, against 0% for those funded once.
44 repeat relationships: 26 still active in FY2025, 18 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $35k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC7× · 2017–2025 · $510k · revenue +12%
NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC6× · 2019–2025 · $415k · revenue +0%
EMERSON COLLEGE7× · 2017–2025 · $320k · revenue +48%
Funded once
- ARAlternate RootsIncone grant, 2020 · $85k · revenue -67%
- CLCAMBODIAN LIVING ARTSone grant, 2017 · $50k
- TLTHE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INCone grant, 2020 · $50k · revenue -71%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The organization's mission is to conserve and promote new england's native plants to ensure healthy, biologically diverse landscapes.
Wheaton college provides a transformative liberal arts education, combining theory and practice, for intellectually curious students within a collaborative and vibrant extended community and network that values and strives to create an…
The bac is committed to provide excellence in design education grounded in practice and accessible to diverse communities.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…
Eastern national promotes the public's understanding and support of america's national parks and other public trust partners by providing quality educational experiences, products and services.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.
New Roots Institute is a nonprofit empowering the next generation with knowledge and training to end factory farming.
Using legal advocacy to make advances in science and technology safer for people and the planet.
Protect Connecticuts farmland for agricultural use by purchasing and accepting donations of agricultural conservation easements
How this is measured
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 86 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds THE UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS INC ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds NEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds EMERSON COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds CERES INC ↗
- Who funds NEXT STAGE ARTS PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds FAIR COUNT INC ↗
- Who funds GENERATION CITIZEN INC ↗
- Who funds WHOLESOME WAVE INC ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN CONSTITUTION SOCIETY FOR LAW & POLICY ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN REPERTORY THEATRE CO INC ↗
- Who funds YELLOW BARN INC ↗
- Who funds FOOD CONNECTS ↗
- Who funds RIVER NETWORK ↗
- Who funds WOMEN ENGAGED INC ↗
- Who funds EQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds ALL VOTING IS LOCAL ↗
- Who funds THOUSAND ISLANDS LAND TRUST INC ↗
- Who funds Appalachian Mountain Club ↗
- Who funds Alternate RootsInc ↗
- Who funds SAVE THE RIVER INC ↗
- Who funds IN-SIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Education Outside ↗
- Who funds AMMONOOSUC CONSERVATION TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE LEADERSHIP CONFERENCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc ↗
- Who funds President and Fellows of Harvard College ↗
- Who funds MASSACHUSETTS MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds BIG SKY YOUTH EMPOWERMENT PROJECT INC ↗
- Who funds Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art Ltd dba HERE Art Center ↗
- Who funds THE COUNTRY SCHOOL INCORPORATED ↗
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: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The John Merck Fund · The Vermont Community Foundation · Impactassetsinc · Tides Foundation · The Windham Foundation Inc · Fiduciary Charitable Foundation Dba Fiduciary Trust Charitable · Clif Family Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Patagoniaorg · Henry P Kendall Foundation · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Fresh Sound Foundation Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Fresh Sound Foundation Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- Northeast Energy Efficiency Partnerships: 100% of income from government
- Groundworks Collaborative Inc: 73% of income from government
- Food Connects: 15% of income from government
- Brandeis University: 9% of income from government
- Vermont Farm-to-School Inc: 7% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College: 7% of income from government
- The Urban Farming Institute of Bostoninc: 4% of income from government
- Resist Inc: 2% of income from government
- Vermont Studio Center Inc: 2% of income from government
- Appalachian Mountain Club: 1% of income from government
- Greenroots Inc: 1% of income from government
- The Marion Institute Inc: 1% of income from government
- American Repertory Theatre Co Inc: 0% of income from government
- Emerson College: 0% of income from government
- Ceres Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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