Massachusetts · Private foundation
Gansett Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2022
- 1
- Grants FY2022
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 100%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Median grant, FY2022
- $1,250,000
- Largest grant, FY2022
- $1,250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 46
- FY2017 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2022
- 1
- Total assets, FY2022
- $8.8M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 100% of the organizations Gansett Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2022, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.3M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2022 | 1 | $1.3M | 100% |
| FY2020 | 8 | $380k | 38% |
| FY2019 | 27 | $1.0M | 37% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $2.4M | 30% |
| FY2017 | 38 | $1.9M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2022.
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 FY2022, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Williams College | $2,250,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Colgate University | $365,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Steppingstone Foundation Inc | $250,000 | 3 | 2% |
| Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | $216,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Pomona College | $100,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $75,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $65,000 | 3 | n/a |
| Horizons for Homeless Children | $30,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Lost Tree Village Charitable Foundation | $30,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of Nobska Light Inc | $26,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 44 grantees
Plus 22 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.3M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gansett Foundation 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · National Philanthropic Trust · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Renaissance Charitable Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · American Endowment Foundation · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund
How this is measured
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About Gansett Foundation
- How much does Gansett Foundation give?
- Gansett Foundation reported 1 grants totaling $1,250,000 in its FY2022 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 46 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2022.
- What does Gansett Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2022, its largest causes are Education (72%), Philanthropy (17%), Health (4%).
- Who are Gansett Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2022: Williams College ($2.3M), Colgate University ($365k), Steppingstone Foundation Inc ($250k).
- Does Gansett Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gansett Foundation accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Gansett Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc, Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc.
- Where is Gansett Foundation based?
- Gansett Foundation is based in MA.
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