Massachusetts · Private foundation
Friendship Fund Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $175k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 46
- Grants FY2025
- 50
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $3,750
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $15,700
- Organizations funded a year
- 41 to 64
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 12
- Total assets, FY2025
- $5.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 26% of the organizations Friendship Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 33% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $60k 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 | $175k | 9% |
| FY2024 | 50 | $183k | 26% |
| FY2023 | 41 | $179k | 20% |
| FY2022 | 46 | $160k | 26% |
| FY2021 | 41 | $138k | 22% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $133k | 17% |
| FY2019 | 63 | $188k | 27% |
| FY2018 | 64 | $188k | 41% |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2025, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 300 Committee Land Trust Inc | $42,305 | 9 | 0% |
| Partnership for Smarter Growth | $40,498 | 9 | 7% |
| Falmouth Service Center Inc | $39,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Eco-Cycle Inc | $38,975 | 8 | 0% |
| Woods Hole Public Library | $37,736 | 9 | 2% |
| Woods Hole Community Association Inc | $37,134 | 9 | 5% |
| The Jonnycake Center Inc | $37,000 | 9 | 0% |
| Association to Preserve Cape Cod Inc | $37,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Domestic Violence Resource Center of South County Inc | $35,750 | 9 | 1% |
| The Community Music School of the Piedmont Inc | $31,000 | 9 | 1% |
Show all 134 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 28 recipients with no EIN on record ($183k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Friendship Fund 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: The Rhode Island Community Foundation · Cape Cod Foundation Inc · Stanley W Watson Foundation · Esther Simon 1952 Charitable Trust Xxxxx8006 · United Way of Rhode Island Inc · Harken Foundation · Josephine and Louise Crane Foundation · Martha's Vineyard Bank Charitable Foundation Inc · Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust · The Champlin Foundation · Woods Hole Foundation Inc · George H Lusk Trust
How this is measured
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About Friendship Fund Inc
- How much does Friendship Fund Inc give?
- Friendship Fund Inc reported 46 grants totaling $174,691 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 41 and 64 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Friendship Fund Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Environment (23%), Arts & Culture (19%), Human Services (12%).
- Who are Friendship Fund Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: The 300 Committee Land Trust Inc ($42k), Partnership for Smarter Growth ($40k), Falmouth Service Center Inc ($39k).
- Does Friendship Fund Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Friendship Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Friendship Fund Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include The Rhode Island Community Foundation, Cape Cod Foundation Inc, Stanley W Watson Foundation.
- Where is Friendship Fund Inc based?
- Friendship Fund Inc is based in MA.
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