Massachusetts · Private foundation
Make Waves Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
- $24k
- Granted FY2025(still arriving)
- 9
- Grants FY2025
- 1
- Organizations funded FY2023
- 0%
- First-time grantees FY2023
- Median grant, FY2025
- $1,000
- Largest grant, FY2025
- $10,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 1 to 9
- FY2017 to FY2023
- States reached, FY2025
- 4
- Total assets, FY2025
- $1.9M
- Applications
- Preselected organizations only
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2023, 0% of the organizations Make Waves Foundation funded were first-time grantees, receiving 0% of its grant dollars.
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $0 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 | 7 | $24k | 29% |
| FY2023 | 1 | $20k | 0% |
| FY2022 | 4 | $271k | 0% |
| FY2021 | 8 | $381k | 38% |
| FY2020 | 5 | $371k | 20% |
| FY2019 | 9 | $210k | 33% |
| FY2018 | 7 | $224k | 43% |
| FY2017 | 6 | $459k | n/a |
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University | $617,667 | 7 | 0% |
| Xaverian Brothers High School | $595,910 | 7 | n/a |
| The Winsor School | $450,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $155,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Xaverian Brothers | $42,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $11,300 | 4 | 0% |
| Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fashion Institute of Technology Foundation | $8,670 | 3 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Martin W Richard Charitable Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
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| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| Duke University | $617,667 | 7 | 0% |
| Xaverian Brothers High School | $595,910 | 7 | n/a |
| The Winsor School | $450,000 | 6 | 0% |
| Trustees of Boston College | $155,000 | 3 | 0% |
| Xaverian Brothers | $42,000 | 2 | n/a |
| Central Park Conservancy Inc | $11,300 | 4 | 0% |
| Catholic Church Extension Society of US of Amer | $10,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Fashion Institute of Technology Foundation | $8,670 | 3 | 0% |
| The Michael J Fox Foundation for Parkinson's Research | $2,500 | 1 | 0% |
| Martin W Richard Charitable Foundation Inc | $500 | 1 | 0% |
| Joyal Capital Management Foundation Inc | $350 | 2 | 0% |
| Association of Cotuit Mosquito Yacht Club Inc | $100 | 1 | 0% |
Plus 6 recipients with no EIN on record ($67k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget Make Waves Foundation 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: Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program · Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation
How this is measured
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About Make Waves Foundation
- How much does Make Waves Foundation give?
- Make Waves Foundation reported 9 grants totaling $23,700 in its FY2025 IRS filing. It funded between 1 and 9 organizations a year over FY2017 to FY2023.
- What does Make Waves Foundation fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2017 to FY2025, its largest causes are Education (93%), Health (3%), Religion (2%).
- Who are Make Waves Foundation's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2017 to FY2025: Duke University ($618k), Xaverian Brothers High School ($596k), The Winsor School ($450k).
- Does Make Waves Foundation fund new organizations?
- In FY2023, 0% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does Make Waves Foundation 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 Make Waves Foundation?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Vanguard Charitable Endowment Program, Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund.
- Where is Make Waves Foundation based?
- Make Waves Foundation is based in MA.
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