Massachusetts · Private foundation
Grey Rocks Foundation Inc
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.
- $2.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 97
- Grants FY2024
- 90
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 16%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $10,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $510,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 38 to 96
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 19
- Total assets, FY2024
- $66M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 16% of the organizations Grey Rocks Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 10% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $167k 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 | 94 | $2.9M | 11% |
| FY2023 | 90 | $1.7M | 16% |
| FY2022 | 83 | $1.4M | 12% |
| FY2021 | 64 | $1.9M | 13% |
| FY2020 | 96 | $2.7M | 43% |
| FY2018 | 46 | $2.1M | 76% |
| FY2017 | 38 | $1.7M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 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, FY2017 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| United States Ski Team Foundation | $2,049,424 | 7 | 6% |
| Holderness School | $750,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Charles River Watershed Association Inc | $655,750 | 7 | 13% |
| United States Rowing Association | $601,529 | 3 | 1% |
| Appalachian Mountain Club | $491,599 | 6 | 1% |
| Phillips Exeter Academy | $450,000 | 6 | 0% |
| YMCA Camp Belknap Inc | $367,000 | 6 | 2% |
| The Fessenden School | $315,000 | 7 | 0% |
| Newfound Lake Region Association | $232,932 | 6 | 20% |
| St Paul's School | $227,500 | 6 | 0% |
Show all 108 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 48 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.2M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Grey Rocks Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 5 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 100 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: New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Fidelity Foundation · Boston Foundation Inc · Cogswell Benevolent Trust · Tosa Foundation · Madelaine G Vonweber Trust Todd Fahey & William Tucker Co-Trustees · Ibm International Foundation · GivenGain Foundation USA · Bangor Savings Bank Foundation · American Tower Corporation Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc
How this is measured
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About Grey Rocks Foundation Inc
- How much does Grey Rocks Foundation Inc give?
- Grey Rocks Foundation Inc reported 97 grants totaling $2,918,776 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 38 and 96 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Grey Rocks Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (33%), Recreation & Sports (20%), Arts & Culture (14%).
- Who are Grey Rocks Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: United States Ski Team Foundation ($2.0M), Holderness School ($750k), Charles River Watershed Association Inc ($656k).
- Does Grey Rocks Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 16% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Grey Rocks Foundation Inc 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 Grey Rocks Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Fidelity Foundation, Boston Foundation Inc.
- Where is Grey Rocks Foundation Inc based?
- Grey Rocks Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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