Massachusetts · Private foundation
Habitat 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.
- $87k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 19
- Grants FY2025
- 16
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 75%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 16
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 75% of the organizations Habitat Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 52% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $41k 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 | 19 | $87k | 37% |
| FY2024 | 16 | $79k | 75% |
| FY2022 | 5 | $90k | 60% |
| FY2021 | 15 | $843k | 93% |
| FY2019 | 1 | $5k | 0% |
| FY2018 | 1 | $4k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $7k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| J Street Education Fund Inc | $29,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Forum for Urban Design | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Sing for Hope Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| America Israel Democracy Coalition | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Boston Book Festival Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of Israel Story | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Center for Urban Pedagogy Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Silk Road Project Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 18 grantees
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| J Street Education Fund Inc | $29,500 | 5 | 0% |
| The Forum for Urban Design | $15,000 | 1 | 2% |
| Sing for Hope Inc | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Birthright Israel Foundation | $10,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation | $9,000 | 2 | 0% |
| America Israel Democracy Coalition | $7,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Boston Book Festival Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Friends of Israel Story | $6,000 | 2 | n/a |
| The Center for Urban Pedagogy Inc | $6,000 | 2 | 0% |
| Silk Road Project Inc | $5,500 | 2 | 0% |
| Holocaust Legacy Foundation Inc | $5,000 | 1 | n/a |
| WGBH Educational Foundation | $5,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Family Center Inc | $5,000 | 2 | 0% |
| American Friends of Concordia University | $4,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Partners in Health | $3,000 | 1 | 6% |
| America Gives Inc | $3,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Jews for Racial & Economic Justice | $2,000 | 1 | 0% |
| Glenn Gould Foundation Inc | $2,000 | 1 | n/a |
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($981k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Habitat 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: Jewish Communal Fund · Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · National Philanthropic Trust · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · American Online Giving Foundation Inc · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
About Habitat Foundation
- How much does Habitat Foundation give?
- Habitat Foundation reported 19 grants totaling $87,000 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 16 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Habitat Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (78%), Arts & Culture (5%), International (3%).
- Who are Habitat Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: J Street Education Fund Inc ($30k), The Forum for Urban Design ($15k), Sing for Hope Inc ($10k).
- Does Habitat Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 75% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Habitat 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 Habitat Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Jewish Communal Fund, Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc.
- Where is Habitat Foundation based?
- Habitat Foundation is based in MA.
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