Massachusetts · Private foundation
Main Street Group Foundation Inc
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $333k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 50
- Grants FY2025
- 31
- Organizations funded FY2024
- 58%
- First-time grantees FY2024
- Median grant, FY2025
- $5,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $50,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 31
- FY2017 to FY2024
- States reached, FY2025
- 1
- Total assets, FY2025
- $2.0M
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2024, 58% of the organizations Main Street Group Foundation Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 59% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $140k 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 | 41 | $328k | 56% |
| FY2024 | 31 | $236k | 58% |
| FY2023 | 20 | $156k | 65% |
| FY2022 | 14 | $128k | 79% |
| FY2021 | 17 | $103k | 100% |
| FY2017 | 2 | $8k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Star Family Services Inc | $85,000 | 5 | 2% |
| Marlborough Public Library Foundation Inc | $81,220 | 2 | 28% |
| Groton Hill Music Inc | $50,000 | 5 | 0% |
| Newvue Communities Inc | $45,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Habitat for Humanity North Central Massachusetts Inc | $41,000 | 4 | 1% |
| Boston Arts Academy Foundation Inc | $35,000 | 2 | 1% |
| Rise Above Foundation Inc | $25,000 | 3 | 1% |
| Addiction Referral Center Inc | $20,750 | 4 | 4% |
| Boys and Girls Clubs of Metrowest Inc | $18,140 | 2 | 0% |
| Metrowest Nonprofit Network Inc | $17,500 | 4 | 5% |
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What it could do for these grantees
Plus 25 recipients with no EIN on record ($229k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Main Street Group Foundation Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 2 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 49 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: Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc · Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc · Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc · Community Foundation for MetroWest Inc · Community Foundation of North Central Ma · Greater Worcester Community Foundation Inc · Reliant Foundation Inc · Massachusetts Bankers Association Charitable Foundation Inc · George R Wallace Foundation · Agnes M Lindsay Trust · Cummings Foundation Grants Inc (Fka Oneworld Boston Inc) · The Madigan Family Foundation Inc
How this is measured
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About Main Street Group Foundation Inc
- How much does Main Street Group Foundation Inc give?
- Main Street Group Foundation Inc reported 50 grants totaling $332,975 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 31 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2024.
- What does Main Street Group Foundation Inc fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (22%), Housing & Shelter (19%), Arts & Culture (12%).
- Who are Main Street Group Foundation Inc's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: North Star Family Services Inc ($85k), Marlborough Public Library Foundation Inc ($81k), Groton Hill Music Inc ($50k).
- Does Main Street Group Foundation Inc fund new organizations?
- In FY2024, 58% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Main Street Group Foundation Inc accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as Main Street Group Foundation Inc?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Avidia Charitable Foundation Inc, Middlesex Savings Charitable Foundation Inc, Rollstone Charitable Foundation Inc.
- Where is Main Street Group Foundation Inc based?
- Main Street Group Foundation Inc is based in MA.
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