Massachusetts · Private foundation
Inavale 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.
- $4.0M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 14
- Grants FY2024
- 19
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 26%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $9,600
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $2,000,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 16 to 34
- FY2018 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 8
- Total assets, FY2024
- $870k
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 26% of the organizations Inavale Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 1% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $17k 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 | 14 | $4.0M | 14% |
| FY2023 | 19 | $1.5M | 26% |
| FY2022 | 28 | $2.8M | 43% |
| FY2021 | 21 | $4.4M | 33% |
| FY2020 | 26 | $1.7M | 46% |
| FY2019 | 16 | $1.5M | 44% |
| FY2018 | 34 | $1.6M | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2018 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, FY2018 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carleton College | $5,150,000 | 6 | 1% |
| The Willa Cather Foundation | $3,018,300 | 4 | 56% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $1,547,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Old Cambridge Baptist Church | $1,360,634 | 7 | n/a |
| Resource Center for Women and Ministry in the South Inc | $370,000 | 5 | 29% |
| Resist Inc | $160,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Nisgua | $120,000 | 3 | 22% |
| Pine Street Inn Inc | $110,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Arlington Center for the Arts Inc Tom Formicola Exec Director | $30,500 | 4 | 3% |
| Boston Medical Center Corporation | $25,000 | 2 | 0% |
Show all 58 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 21 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Inavale Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 53 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.
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How this is measured
About Inavale Foundation Inc
- How much does Inavale Foundation Inc give?
- Inavale Foundation Inc reported 14 grants totaling $3,971,050 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 16 and 34 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2023.
- What does Inavale Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2018 to FY2024, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (42%), Education (29%), Food & Nutrition (12%).
- Who are Inavale Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2018 to FY2024: Carleton College ($5.2M), The Willa Cather Foundation ($3.0M), Greater Boston Food Bank Inc ($1.5M).
- Does Inavale Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 26% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Inavale 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 Inavale Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, Cambridge Savings Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Inavale Foundation Inc based?
- Inavale Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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