Massachusetts · Private foundation
Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $163k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 22
- Grants FY2025
- 15
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 40%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $45,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 42
- FY2018 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 5
- Total assets, FY2025
- $12k
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 40% of the organizations Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust funded were first-time grantees, receiving 57% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $106k 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 | 21 | $162k | 38% |
| FY2024 | 15 | $188k | 40% |
| FY2023 | 16 | $92k | 38% |
| FY2022 | 8 | $51k | 25% |
| FY2021 | 3 | $16k | 0% |
| FY2020 | 1 | $1k | 100% |
| FY2019 | 12 | $84k | 25% |
| FY2018 | 42 | $116k | 48% |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uss Constitution Museum Inc | $75,100 | 6 | 1% |
| Sail Boston Inc | $57,500 | 2 | 1% |
| Ron Burton Training Village Inc | $51,554 | 7 | 0% |
| Save the Harborsave the Bay Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 1% |
| Dana-Farber Cancer Institute Inc | $45,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Boston Area Church League Inc | $41,700 | 8 | 20% |
| Beacon Hill Village Inc | $35,355 | 4 | 2% |
| Lynx Educational Foundation Inc | $30,000 | 2 | 12% |
| Esplanade Association Inc | $25,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Our Space Our Place Inc | $20,000 | 2 | 14% |
Show all 61 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($304k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust 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: Boston Foundation Inc · Eastern Bank Foundation · King Spruce Company · Ernst & Elfriede Frank Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · Meyer & Jean Steinberg Family Foundation Inc · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for Nantucket Inc · GivenGain Foundation USA · Barr Foundation
How this is measured
Compare Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust with peer funders
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About Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust
- How much does Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust give?
- Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust reported 22 grants totaling $163,255 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 42 organizations a year over FY2018 to FY2024.
- What does Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Arts & Culture (21%), Youth Development (19%), Environment (8%).
- Who are Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Uss Constitution Museum Inc ($75k), Sail Boston Inc ($58k), Ron Burton Training Village Inc ($52k).
- Does Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 40% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, Eastern Bank Foundation, King Spruce Company.
- Where is Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust based?
- Kershaw Foundation Charitable Trust is based in MA.
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