Massachusetts · Private foundation
Leaves of Grass Fund
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.
- $1.6M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 132
- Grants FY2024
- 112
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 14%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $150,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 86 to 160
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 18
- Total assets, FY2024
- $31M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 14% of the organizations Leaves of Grass Fund funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $193k 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 | 130 | $1.6M | 16% |
| FY2023 | 112 | $1.2M | 14% |
| FY2022 | 137 | $1.6M | 4% |
| FY2021 | 160 | $2.0M | 49% |
| FY2020 | 109 | $1.9M | 24% |
| FY2019 | 97 | $1.7M | 16% |
| FY2018 | 96 | $1.7M | 29% |
| FY2017 | 86 | $1.5M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| International Rescue Committee INC | $1,308,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Mass General Brigham Incorporated | $650,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Marin Agricultural Land Trust | $409,000 | 8 | 1% |
| Food Bank for New York City | $345,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Greater Boston Food Bank Inc | $328,500 | 8 | 0% |
| Boston Symphony Orchestra Inc | $301,000 | 8 | 0% |
| Fair Elections Center | $255,000 | 6 | 11% |
| Los Angeles Food Bank | $200,000 | 4 | n/a |
| Westside Food Bank | $155,000 | 7 | 2% |
| American Civil Liberties Union Inc | $145,000 | 5 | 0% |
Show all 197 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 79 recipients with no EIN on record ($3.5M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Leaves of Grass Fund supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 189 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: Boston Foundation Inc · The New York Community Trust · Rsf Social Finance Inc · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Tides Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Give Lively Foundation Inc · Conrad N Hilton Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · New Venture Fund · Marty and Dorothy Silverman Foundation
How this is measured
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About Leaves of Grass Fund
- How much does Leaves of Grass Fund give?
- Leaves of Grass Fund reported 132 grants totaling $1,608,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 86 and 160 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Leaves of Grass Fund fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (16%), Food & Nutrition (14%), International (13%).
- Who are Leaves of Grass Fund's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: International Rescue Committee INC ($1.3M), Mass General Brigham Incorporated ($650k), Marin Agricultural Land Trust ($409k).
- Does Leaves of Grass Fund fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 14% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Leaves of Grass Fund 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 Leaves of Grass Fund?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, The New York Community Trust, Rsf Social Finance Inc.
- Where is Leaves of Grass Fund based?
- Leaves of Grass Fund is based in MA.
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