Massachusetts · Private foundation
Gbl Charitable 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.
- $44k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 11
- Grants FY2025
- 7
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 29%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $2,500
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $12,500
- Organizations funded a year
- 4 to 36
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $607k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 29% of the organizations Gbl Charitable Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 9% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3k 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 | 11 | $44k | 27% |
| FY2024 | 7 | $28k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 4 | $35k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 6 | $40k | 50% |
| FY2020 | 36 | $148k | 36% |
| FY2019 | 31 | $127k | 29% |
| FY2018 | 25 | $108k | 24% |
| FY2017 | 29 | $108k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sierra Club | $124,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Rural Advancement Foundation Internation | $60,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Hale Education Inc | $53,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Pioneer Institute Inc | $35,000 | 4 | 0% |
| The Walker School Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Cancer Care Connection | $14,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Reach Prep Inc | $13,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Minds Matter of Boston Inc | $13,000 | 2 | 2% |
| Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc | $11,500 | 4 | 0% |
| Westwood Land Trust Inc | $10,750 | 4 | 2% |
Show all 52 grantees
Plus 13 recipients with no EIN on record ($113k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Gbl Charitable 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 · Maine Community Foundation Inc · Onion Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Middlecott Foundation · Fisher Charitable Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Bny Mellon Charitable Gift Fund · The Kirby Family Foundation · Strypemonde Foundation · Bushrod H Campbell & Adah F Hall Charity Fund
How this is measured
About Gbl Charitable Foundation
- How much does Gbl Charitable Foundation give?
- Gbl Charitable Foundation reported 11 grants totaling $44,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 4 and 36 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Gbl Charitable Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Philanthropy (72%), Education (7%), Environment (7%).
- Who are Gbl Charitable Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Sierra Club ($124k), Rural Advancement Foundation Internation ($60k), Hale Education Inc ($53k).
- Does Gbl Charitable Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 29% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Gbl Charitable 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 Gbl Charitable Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Maine Community Foundation Inc, Onion Foundation.
- Where is Gbl Charitable Foundation based?
- Gbl Charitable Foundation is based in MA.
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