Massachusetts · Private foundation
Grayson Family Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $1.5M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 93
- Grants FY2024
- 64
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 61%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $700,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 53 to 65
- FY2020 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 13
- Total assets, FY2024
- $6.3M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 61% of the organizations Grayson Family Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 69% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.1M 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 80 | $1.5M | 33% |
| FY2023 | 64 | $1.6M | 61% |
| FY2022 | 53 | $1.1M | 32% |
| FY2021 | 65 | $1.0M | 29% |
| FY2020 | 59 | $1.0M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
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, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| American Friends of University College Oxford Inc | $784,000 | 3 | 17% |
| Association of American Rhodes Scholars | $290,000 | 5 | 75% |
| More Than Words Inc | $135,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Teach for America Inc | $125,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $110,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Americans for Oxford Inc | $66,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Cato Institute | $60,000 | 5 | 0% |
| The Tanzanian Childrens Fund Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Paul's School | $48,000 | 5 | 0% |
| St Joseph Notre Dame High School | $45,000 | 5 | n/a |
Show all 74 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 86 recipients with no EIN on record ($4.0M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Grayson Family Foundation supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 67 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
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 · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · King Spruce Company · Westwind Foundation · The Argosy Foundation · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Edward Lee and Slocumb Hollis Perry Foundation · The Vermont Community Foundation · The Morris & Bessie Altman Foundation · The William & Lia G Poorvu Family Foundation · George W Mergens Foundation
How this is measured
About Grayson Family Foundation
- How much does Grayson Family Foundation give?
- Grayson Family Foundation reported 93 grants totaling $1,489,250 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 53 and 65 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
- What does Grayson Family Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (34%), Social Science (24%), Arts & Culture (8%).
- Who are Grayson Family Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: American Friends of University College Oxford Inc ($784k), Association of American Rhodes Scholars ($290k), More Than Words Inc ($135k).
- Does Grayson Family Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 61% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Grayson Family 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 Grayson Family Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc.
- Where is Grayson Family Foundation based?
- Grayson Family Foundation is based in MA.
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