Massachusetts · Private foundation
Grant and Lara Gund 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.
- $1.4M
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 26
- Grants FY2025
- 27
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 30%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $20,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $250,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 19 to 30
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 7
- Total assets, FY2025
- $820k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 30% of the organizations Grant and Lara Gund Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 13% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $141k 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 | $1.4M | 24% |
| FY2024 | 27 | $1.0M | 30% |
| FY2023 | 27 | $1.1M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 25 | $1.1M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 19 | $711k | 47% |
| FY2020 | 30 | $635k | 40% |
| FY2019 | 23 | $663k | 48% |
| FY2018 | 30 | $665k | 40% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Root Capital Inc | $1,610,000 | 9 | 1% |
| Groton School | $486,300 | 7 | 0% |
| The Colorado College | $330,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Milton Academy | $320,000 | 4 | 0% |
| Perkins School for the Blind | $263,000 | 8 | 0% |
| RepresentUs | $160,000 | 4 | 2% |
| Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Inc | $95,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Epiphany School Inc | $86,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Trustees of Boston University | $80,000 | 4 | 0% |
| RepresentUs Education Fund | $60,000 | 2 | 2% |
Show all 54 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 39 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Grant and Lara Gund Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 51 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
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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: Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Gordon and Llura Gund Foundation · Barr Foundation · The New York Community Trust · The Pfizer Foundation Inc · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · Verizon Foundation · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · National Philanthropic Trust
How this is measured
About Grant and Lara Gund Foundation
- How much does Grant and Lara Gund Foundation give?
- Grant and Lara Gund Foundation reported 26 grants totaling $1,410,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 19 and 30 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Grant and Lara Gund Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (39%), International (22%), Environment (14%).
- Who are Grant and Lara Gund Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Root Capital Inc ($1.6M), Groton School ($486k), The Colorado College ($330k).
- Does Grant and Lara Gund Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 30% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Grant and Lara Gund 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 Grant and Lara Gund Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Zachary and Lindsey Gund Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Grant and Lara Gund Foundation based?
- Grant and Lara Gund Foundation is based in MA.
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