Massachusetts · Private foundation
Lovett-Woodsum 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.
- $1.9M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 85
- Grants FY2024
- 80
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 19%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2024
- $8,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $400,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 49 to 156
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2024
- 12
- Total assets, FY2024
- $88M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 19% of the organizations Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 14% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 86% 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 | 83 | $1.9M | 19% |
| FY2023 | 80 | $1.2M | 19% |
| FY2022 | 49 | $677k | 22% |
| FY2021 | 92 | $2.1M | 14% |
| FY2020 | 156 | $4.9M | 20% |
| FY2019 | 129 | $4.1M | 22% |
| FY2018 | 122 | $4.6M | 46% |
| FY2017 | 116 | $3.5M | 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Northwestern University | $2,715,936 | 5 | 0% |
| City Year Inc | $1,782,174 | 5 | 0% |
| Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc | $1,144,497 | 4 | 3% |
| The Childrens Museum | $751,000 | 8 | 2% |
| Year Up Inc | $700,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Squam Lakes Natural Science Center | $533,500 | 8 | 8% |
| Yale University | $509,262 | 4 | n/a |
| Edvestors Inc | $500,000 | 4 | 5% |
| Museum of Fine Arts | $380,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Greenlight Fund Inc | $334,000 | 2 | 3% |
Show all 205 grantees
What it could do for these grantees
Plus 81 recipients with no EIN on record ($5.8M), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 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 · New Hampshire Charitable Foundation · Tosa Foundation · Eastern Bank Foundation · Cocchiaro Family Foundation · Combined Jewish Philanthropies of Greater Boston Inc · Liberty Mutual Foundation Inc · The Orchard Foundation · The Schifrin Foundation Inc · Highland Street Connection and Subsidiaries · Fidelity Foundation · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc)
How this is measured
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About Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc
- How much does Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc give?
- Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc reported 85 grants totaling $1,927,710 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 49 and 156 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2024, its largest causes are Education (19%), Health (14%), Recreation & Sports (12%).
- Who are Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2024: Northwestern University ($2.7M), City Year Inc ($1.8M), Boys & Girls Clubs of Boston Inc ($1.1M).
- Does Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 19% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Lovett-Woodsum 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 Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Boston Foundation Inc, New Hampshire Charitable Foundation, Tosa Foundation.
- Where is Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc based?
- Lovett-Woodsum Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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